Henry Wyatt Watling Clarke was born on 8 July 1866 at 'Rarere,' Kerikeri.
He married Mary Davis Eliza Bedggood (born 1864), daughter of James and Marella Bedggood, a missionary family.
Henry died of a fever at Waimate North on 18 October 1893, aged only twenty-seven.
Mary died at Waimate North on 9 January 1922, aged fifty-eight.
