Elizabeth Joan Meyrick

1905 - 1988  (83 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Joan Meyrick  [1, 2]
  Known as	"Joan"
  Birth	16 Jun 1905	Norwich   [1, 2, 3]
  Occupation	Art Teacher, England, Turkey & Egypt  [4]
  Residence	Apr 1911	St Peter Mancroft Vicarage, The Chantry, Theatre St, Norwich   [1]
  Marriage	27 Apr 1938	All Saints, Bulkeley, Alexandria, Egypt   [4, 5, 6]
  	John Vernon Carlton Clarke,   b. 13 Jun 1907, Dublin South ,   d. Apr 1994, Braintree
  Residence	1976	The Lodge, Colne Engaine   [4, 7]
  Death	Jul 1988	Colchester   [3]
  Person ID	I3035	Tatham | Richmond branch | Descendant
  Last Modified	07 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Frederick James Meyrick,   b. 11 Dec 1871, Blickling ,   d. 10 Jan 1945, 2 Pembroke Avenue, Hove  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Helen Charlotte Richmond,   b. 28 Apr 1870, Algiers ,   d. 11 Jun 1940, Hove  (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1902	St Nicholas, Chiswick   [8, 9, 10]
  Notes	Helen Richmond met Frederick James Meyrick at Mont Dore in 1895. She was there with her mother and brother John. They had taken John there in the hope of curing cancer of the bronchial tubes that he had contracted while at Sandhurst. [from Some Notes about the Meyricks and the Richmonds, Vernon Clarke and M L Walker, nd, post 1975]
  Family ID	F0613	Family Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	John Vernon Carlton Clarke,   b. 13 Jun 1907, Dublin South ,   d. Apr 1994, Braintree  (Age 86 years)
  Engagement	30 Nov 1937	[11]
  Marriage	27 Apr 1938	All Saints, Bulkeley, Alexandria, Egypt   [4, 5, 6]
  	On April 27, 1938, at All Saints, Bulkeley, Alexandria, by the Rev. R. H. Bradshaw, John Vernon Carlton, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Clarke, of 12, Egerton Place, S.W.3, and Little Ormesby Hall, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Joan, second daughter of the Rev. Canon and Mrs. Meyrick, of The Vicarage, Hove. [The Times]
  Notes	John Vernon Carlton, retired as executive of the Shell International Petroleum Co., and did ten years teaching after retiring from Shell. In 1938, the age of 56, he married Joan Meyrick in Alexandria. Joan's father was Canon Frederick James Meyrick, Vicar of All Saints' Church, Hove, and earlier of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. (See OM page 86.) Vernon and Joan live at The Lodge, Colne Egaine, Essex and have three children: - Charles James Richmond, b. 1942, a solicitor in n who married Anne, the daughter of Hugh Boileau Q.C.; - Penelope Marion, b.1944; - Brian Meyrick Neville, b.1945 who in 1975 worked in Papua New Guinea as Field Officer looking after the 120 VSO volunteers there. Charles James Richmond Carlton b.1942 = Ann Boileau b.1949 children: Penelope b.1944; Brian b.1945. [4]
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living + 3. Living
  Last Modified	07 May 2012
  Family ID	F0635	Family Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S01] Census, UK, 1911. age 5 b Norwich [S02] BMD Index, birth reg Norwich, 3Q1905. [S02] BMD Index, death reg Colchester, Jul 1988. b 16 Jun 1905 [S08] Family Trees & Websites, Clarkes of Graiguenoe Park. Booklet by Ralph L Clarke and Vernon Clarke, privately published 1976; website accessed 01 Jul 2009 [S13] thePeerage.com. [S05] The Times, marriage notice, 30 Apr 1938. [S05] The Times, forthcoming marriages, 07 Mar 1975. son Charles [S02] BMD Index, marriage reg Brentford, 2Q1902. [S01] Census, UK, 1911. marr 8 yrs [S04] H Curtis: Notes for a Pedigree of the Tathams of Co. Durham. MS additions to copy in SoG [S05] The Times, forthcoming marriages, 30 Nov 1937.