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Gunsmith, missionary, teacher, protector, judge Born Wymondham, Norfolk, England | Died Grove Cottage, Te Karaka, Waimate NorthKey datesYearEvent1798Born at Wymondham, Norfolk1809–1818Gunsmith's more»

Martha Elizabeth Blomfield was born at Wymondham on 11 December 1801, the second of six daughters of the Reverend Ezekiel Blomfield and his wife Mary Anne Fennel. As children, she and George Clarke more»

Born at Parramatta, New South Wales, on 29 June 1823 — while his parents were still waiting for passage to New Zealand — George Junior arrived at Kerikeri as an infant in 1824 and grew up in the more»

Samuel was born at Kerikeri on 13 August 1824 — in the Mission House adjacent to the falls, the oldest surviving wooden building in New Zealand's North Island. He grew up in the same household as more»

Henry Tacy Clarke was born at Kerikeri on 14 November 1825, the third child of George and Martha, and named for the Reverend Henry Tacy who had married his parents. He was educated at the Missionary more»

William Clarke was born at Kerikeri in 1827, the fourth child, and his middle name was originally Yate — given for the missionary William Yate, who had been a beloved presence in the Clarke more»

Baptised 14 September 1828. Died at Kerikeri at 3 months old, following a bout of whooping cough. Buried 11. Nov more»

Mary Anne Clarke was born at Kerikeri on 3 October 1829. She is recorded as having made the first collection of New Zealand ferns that were displayed in the British Museum — a small detail that more»

Edward was born at Waimate North on 4 May 1831, the first child to be baptised in the new church there — a church his father had helped build. He grew up at Grove Cottage, was educated by the more»

Hopkins Clarke was born at Waimate North in July 1832 — the first of the Clarke children to be born in the Waimate Mission House that his father had built. He was baptised on 11 August 1832 by more»

Baptised 11 August more»

Born at Waimate on 16 December 1834 and baptised on 8 January 1835, Jane died in August 1870. Little is recorded of her life beyond the dates; the family records note she was among the siblings who more»

Marsden Clarke was born at Waimate North in 1837, named for Samuel Marsden, the founding figure of the New Zealand mission who had played such a decisive role in his parents' lives. He grew up at more»

(Not to be confused with the first Martha Elizabeth, who died as an infant in 1828)Martha was born at Waimate North on 31 August 1838. She grew up at Grove Cottage and spent winter months with her more»

Baptized 8 August 1840.George Clarke, after returning from Auckland with his family, John, Marsden, Martha, Sarah and Henrietta, grew up at Grove Cottage. John was appointed People's Warden at more»

Sarah was born at Waimate on 7 January 1843 — the child who, more than any other, reminds us that pioneer life in the Bay of Islands was not always vigorous and romantic. Her health was fragile more»

Henrietta was born at St George's Bay, Auckland, on 15 November 1845, during the family's years in the colonial capital, and grew up at Grove Cottage when her parents returned to Waimate in 1846. She more»