1. Victoria Beatrice
Clark / Clarke / Cheeper / Phillips
1901-98
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This directory contains information and documents about the 6 children that Amy bore to Anthony Jacques Cheeper/Clarke.
A separate page contains information about Amy, including her life before and after Anthony. For further details of Amy’s very interesting husband Anthony, including his families with other wives, see the AJCheeper/Clarke directory.
1. Victoria BeatriceClark / Clarke / Cheeper / Phillips1901-98 |
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According to VB's birth certificate, she was:
(Regarding her names, Queen Victoria d. a month earlier, on 22 Jan 1901, and the funeral was a big event. And Princess Beatrice was Victoria and Albert's 5th and last child, 43 at the time).
Given that Anthony was in the household as Victoria Beatrice grew up, it's a reasonable surmise that she grew up understanding her name to be Clarke (or sometimes Cheeper), but not Clark. If she ever needed to use her birth certificate at all, the spelling on the certificate could have been easily passed off as a registration error.
Pamela said that she was known as Vic.
m. Joseph Phillips, 26 Aug 1952
Joseph and Vic were both aged 51, so he was also b. 1901
Joseph was of Russian (Jewish?) origin, and had been a boxer
There were no children.
Joseph d. 17 Jul 1959, aged 58
Victoria d. 27 Aug 1998, aged 97
2. Cyril GordonClarke / Cheeper1902-2001 |
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According to his birth certificate, Cyril was b. 15 Apr 1902, when the family was at 25 Carlisle Rd, Romford, Essex. His father is shown as Anthony Clarke, Commercial Traveller – and Informant. His mother is shown as Amy Clarke, formerly Clark.
According to birth, marriage and death certificates, Cyril was always known as Clarke – except in the 1911 census entry where Anthony recorded the whole family as Cheepers.
He told his niece Pamela that, when they were kids, they were told to call themselves Cheeper. He also told Pamela that, every Christmas, a cheque came for Mr Cheeper.
Shown as age 9 in the 1911 Census – but he was actually 13 days short of his 9th birthday
m. Beatrice Eleanor PERRIN, always known as Mimi, on 9 Oct 1929.
According to the marriage certificate, it was at the Registry Office, Rochford (E of London, 3 miles north of Southend). He was 27, and a Jeweller's Salesman. He was at 116 York Rd, Southend on Sea (50 miles E of London). She was 24, i.e. b. 1905, no employment, of 28 Duke's Ave, Wealdstone Harrow (NW London). Her father Emil Jules Perrin (deceased) was shown as a Watchmaker. The family was from Geneva.
At some stage, they moved from London to Brighton.
Cyril was known as Nobby, at least from the War period onwards, when he was in his late 30s to early 40s. During 1940-45, Cyril was stationed in Northern Ireland, and learnt the watchmaker's trade there.
Mimi d. 1946, of breast cancer.
Cyril lived at 83 Larkfield Way, Brighton, from at least the 1950s until his death.
His niece Pamela lived with him from 1957, at which stage he was 55, and she cared for him in his later years.
Cyril d. 4 Sep 2001, aged 99, in Brighton. His death certificate and his daughter's marriage entry show him as a [Master] Watchmaker
From the family's entry in the 1911 Census, it was inferred that a further child was alive in April 1911, but was not resident with the family that night.
Dorothy appears in the 1911 Census as aged 7, born in York and a niece of Amy's sister Mable (or less likely of Mable's husband Walter Mitchell), down in North London. (That entry was found by Patrick Hanson-Lowe in south-west London, our 4th cousin on Anthony Jacques Cheeper's mother's side).
Age 7 on 2 Apr 1911 implies she was b. between 3 Apr 1903 and 2 Apr 1904, prob. in 1903. But Anne has found no Dorothy Clarke b. about then in York or Romford. There were two entries for a Dorothy Clark born in York, one Sep qtr 1903, the other Sep qtr 1904; but neither is this one. Another possibility is a Christina Dorothy Clarke, who was registered in Romford Sep qtr 1904 4a 564. (Child 2 was born in Romford 2 years earlier. And a one-year delay in registration of a 1903 birth is quite feasible).
Pamela said that she was known as Dolly.
She lived with Amy in Stoke Newington all her life, except for a very brief failed marriage.
Dolly d. "many years ago", according to Pamela (perhaps the mid-1950s, aged about 50?).
According to her birth certificate, she was b. 13 Jan 1905, at 89 Union Terrace, Gillygate, York (just north of the Minster). The details of her parents are consistent with the many other sources.
She's recorded in the 1911 Census as Winifred Phillis Clarke; and she's recorded as age 7, whereas she was actually 6 (and 2 months). (The differences in name-sequence and age presented Anne with considerable challenges!).
Pamela says she was known as Winnie throughout her life.
Pamela says that Winnie was a dancer, and a Bluebell when the group first started in Paris. (The group was started in 1932, by which time Winnie was 27). She also did a duo at The Talk of the Town (then the Hippodrome). She was later a waitress.
m. ? Jenkinson, early 1940s?
Winnie d. "56 years ago" according to Pamela, i.e. 1953 (at only 48).
5. Muriel VynerClarke / Cheeper / Kendall1907-2008 |
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Muriel was b. 25 Mar 1907, at 4 Vyner St, York, 1km north of York Minster. For his 33rd child, it seems Anthony was running out of christian names and used the street-name. Muriel's father is shown as Anthony Clarke, Bookseller's Traveller. Her mother is shown as Amy Clarke, formerly Clark – and Informant.
Aged 5 in the 1911 Census.
Her marriage
certificate shows her as Clarke. (Only the 1911 census entry shows
Cheeper).
m. Alfred Samuel KENDALL, 4 Apr 1931, at West Hackney
(North London)
Muriel was shown as 24, and a bookkeeper of, 34 Darville Rd. Her father
is shown as Anthony Clarke, Commercial Traveller.
Alfred was shown as 25, b. Aug 1905, Insurance Clerk, of 55 Crouch Hill,
Hornsey (3 miles NW).
One of the witnesses is Amy N. Cooper, her mother, by then re-married.
On their daughter's birth certificate in 1940, they were resident at 20 Pinewood Ave, Sidcup (SE London), and Alfred was shown as an Insurance Cashier.
According to their daughter, they were difficult people.
Alfred d. 1991, aged 86.
Muriel d. 2 Jan 2008 in Seaford, on the Sussex coast, aged 100.
Muriel was the last of Anthony's children to pass on, almost 148-1/2 years after the first – Anthony George Cheeper, who died soon after birth, in mid-August 1859.
According to his birth certificate, born 17 Mar 1910, at 74 Broadfield Rd, (then in Ecclesall Bierlow), Sheffield. Ecclesall Bierlow was a ward of Sheffield then, but has since been subdivided into three.
The mother was shown as Amy Neil Cheeper. The father was shown as Anthony Jacques Cheeper, commercial traveller (books). The informant was A.J. Cheeper, 6 weeks later, on 27 April 1910.
This was the first time since mid-1877, 33 years earlier, that his Cheeper surname appeared in a record. Was Anthony, at 73, losing his grip the day he registered Donald?
d. 29 Jan 1911, aged 10 months, death certificate. They were still at the same address. The informant this time was Amy (which raises the possibility that Anthony had already decamped).
Anthony Jacques Cheeper/Clarke (1837-1918) passed his first name on to 4 children:
We're missing a lot of information; and we'd love to know more!
This a page within Roger Clarke's Family Web-Site
Contact: Roger Clarke and/or Anne Kratzmann
Created: 18 October 2005; Last Amended: 13 April 2010
