William's parents, Peter and Emily Clark. Peter must have been an amazing and rather scary man, listed as a Handloom weaver in 1851, like his parents before him, by the 1881 census he is a chief Inspector of police living in Dumfries. William ran away to sea, and as far as we know never went back. William spent at least 2o years as a marine musician before coming to Kent.
Thanks to my cousin Phillip Clark for this research
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