George Clark

Almost certainly the nephew of Dr James Clark (q.v.). Clark Hall (of which George Clark appears with J.M. Beijerman (son-in-law of the older George Clark and brother-in-law of George Clark the younger) as owner of one moiety in the compensation records), was previously owned by James Clark FRS, a doctor from Aberdeen, who on his death in 1819 left it to his brother George Clark, 'a merchant in Rotterdam' and George's children (James Laing is identified in the same source as a colleague and friend of James Clark).

1. Will of George Clark [merchant residing at the west side of Leuvehaven in the City of Rotterdam] proved 09/06/1843. The will is not definitive, leaving his wife Mrs Mary Ann Ashwell as his universal heir, but appears from Dutch genealogical sources online to have been the son of another George Clark of Rotterdam and thus the nephew of Dr James Clark. George Clark the father appears from this source to have died in 1823.

'A North-east Story': Scotland, Africa and Slavery': Fortune hunters in the Caribbean, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/slavery/4p2.htm [accessed 23/04/2011].

1. PROB 11/1980/270; Open Archives, City Archives Rotterdam (Netherlands) - Civil registration deaths Burgerlijke Stand Rotterdam, overlijdensakten, Rotterdam, archive NL-RtSA_999-09, 1823, record number a047v.