American AcornsEmma Lucy Green Clarkson
Emma Lucy Green appears by name in two Liverpool church registers: her 1854 marriage to William Clarkson and their son William Banton's 1858 baptism. The family chart instead called her Eliza L. Clarkson.
William Clarkson and Emma Lucy Green: Liverpool, 1854–1858
On 6 July 1854, at St Paul's Church in Liverpool, William Clarkson, a bachelor and spirit dealer living at Aigburth, married Emma Lucy Green, a minor living on Soho Street. The register names her father as William Green, builder, and his father as Thomas Clarkson, brewer.
Source: Liverpool Record Office, St Paul's parish register, via Ancestry.
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Four years later, on 22 June 1858, a baby named William Banton was baptized at All Saints, Liverpool. The register lists his parents as William and Emma Lucy Clarkson, of 32 Great Mersey Street, and gives the father's trade as brewer.
Her son's death certificate, written in 1933, calls her Ellen Green.
Their parents
William's marriage register calls his father Thomas Clarkson, a brewer. He is probably the Thomas Clarkson who married Nancy Banton in 1827; the shared name does not connect him to the abolitionist.
A baptism from 1835, probably Emma's, names Mary Ann Green as her mother. The family chart names her mother as Sarah, and a maiden name of Waller has been proposed; the baptism supports neither, and her mother is not established.
Source: The Houston Daily Post; Library of Congress, Chronicling America
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Source: Lancashire Archives, Poulton-le-Fylde parish register, via Ancestry.
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Liverpool years, 1858–1915
William and Emma Lucy stayed in Liverpool. The Liverpool registers record William as a spirit dealer and brewer; later records appear to place him in the wine trade.
The 1901 census, taken in March, finds William, 69, a retired brewer, at The Friars, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, with Emma L., 66, and their daughter Florence.
Source: The National Archives (UK), RG13/3432, via Ancestry.
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In May 1901 a Houston newspaper reported a visit to his son W. B. Clarkson in Texas, not a move there. The visitor was probably this William Clarkson. The same report said the visitor went on to MacLeod, Canada, to visit another son, who is not named. The March census, with William at home in Liverpool, fits a visit rather than a move.
Emma died on October 4, 1910, according to the probate calendar; the death index gives her age as 74.
Source: National Probate Calendar, 1910, via Ancestry.
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William probably died in Liverpool in February 1915 and was buried at Allerton, according to a cemetery transcription.
Their son in Texas
William Banton Clarkson, born 8 May 1858, probably sailed for the United States about 1884 and became a cotton merchant in Texas, in San Antonio, then Houston around 1900, and San Antonio again from 1904, as his passport application, death certificate and census records suggest. William Banton died in San Antonio on 8 September 1933. His profile tells his story in full.
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Sources
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- St Paul's, Liverpool, marriage register, 6 July 1854 (cited by register and date).
- All Saints, Liverpool, baptism register, 22 June 1858, entry 989: Liverpool Record Office, 283 ALS/2/1 (Liverpool, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1919, Ancestry collection 2196, record 1753657).
- Allerton cemetery burial, 13 February 1915 (transcription).
- Houston Daily Post, 29 May 1901, p. 6: www.loc.gov/resource/sn86071197/1901-05-29/ed-1/?sp=6
- William Banton Clarkson's passport application (1921), death certificate (1933) and the U.S. census of 1900, cited on his profile.
- General Register Office death index, Toxteth Park, December quarter 1910.
- England and Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1910, p. 363, entry for Emma Lucy Clarkson (death of October 4, 1910).
- St Chad's, Poulton-le-Fylde, marriage of Thomas Clarkson and Nancy Banton, 1 February 1827 (transcription).
- 1901 census of England, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, RG13/3432, p. 17, schedule 67 (William Clarkson household, The Friars).