Migrating to America

Albert Clarke and Mary Elizabeth Denton Clarke, and their young son Percy migrated from Northamptonshire to America in 1895.  Albert wanted a greater role in the Methodist church, but it was not available to him in England as a married man.

Albert and Elizabeth Denton Clarke, about 1895

They stayed in touch with their relatives in England, visiting twice that I know of.  They took their kids, including our grandfather John Clarke, who was born in America in 1896.  There are several photographs of family reunions over the years.  Grandpa maintained the tradition, as did our Dad, Bob Clarke, and now a few of us in the boomer generation.