Today we have the remarkable coincidence that Zebulon Clark, my 5x great grandfather and Zebulon Clarke 4x great grandfather - father and son - were both buried on the same day and in the same place, Icklesham, Sussex, England. One in 1780 and the other in 1828. To save any confusion I am just going to write about my 4x great grandfather buried in 1828.
There were several events in 1828 that are worth noting but I doubt any of them affected Zebulon's life in Sussex.
The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister.
Royal Free Hospital, established as the London General Institution for the Gratuitous Care of Malignant Diseases by surgeon William Marsden, opens. He also founded the Free Cancer Hospital in 1851.
London Zoo opens in Regent's Park.
William Howley elected as Archbishop of Canterbury in succession to Charles Manners-Sutton.
St Katharine Docks opened in London. It lies just south of the Tower of London on the north bank of the River Thames.
Mary Anning discovers Britain's first pterosaur fossil at Lyme Regis on the south coast.
Zebulon Clark was born in 1777 in Icklesham, Sussex, England, to Zebulon Clarke (1751, buried in 1780) and Eleanor Griffin (born 1746). He was baptized in Icklesham on January 5, 1777. Zebulon married Sarah Bates in Icklesham on April 11, 1799, and they had eight children. After Sarah's death in 1814, Zebulon remarried Mary Simmons in Icklesham on September 16, 1816. Together, they had seven children, including another son named Zebulon. Zebulon Clark passed away in 1828 and was buried on December 24, 1828, in Icklesham.
I am descended from Zebulon and Sarah's youngest son, Henry, born in 1812.
Looking back through history, December 24 has seen several significant events:
1166: The birth of King John, youngest son of Henry II, who was forced by the barons to sign the Magna Carta.
1650: Edinburgh Castle surrendered to troops commanded by Oliver Cromwell.
1814: The War of 1812 between the US and Britain ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.
1818: The first performance of "Silent Night" took place in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.
1914: World War I saw the beginning of the "Christmas truce."
1939: During World War II, Pope Pius XII made a Christmas Eve appeal for peace
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| Militia List 1812 - Line 51 is Zebulon's entry |
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