Louisa Willis, the daughter of Thomas Willis and Mary Anne Newcombe of Portarlington, married George Allen Proctor, gentleman, on 26th May 1825, in St.Peter’s, Dublin, two months after the death of her father, the Portarlington schoolmaster Thomas Willis.
Speculation: there was a George Allen Proctor in the Amicable Society of Printers, who had married Mary Weldon of St. Peter’s Dublin in 1795. This man’s son, Edmund, entered Trinity College in 1823. Perhaps Louisa Willis was his second, younger wife?
(A second George Allen Proctor was born in Dublin to Thomas and Anne Proctor in 1816 - he would have been 9 years old when Louisa Willis married the other one, and was, perhaps, the nephew of the older man. This younger George Allen Proctor entered the church and spent 39 years as rector of Tullamelan, Clonmel, Tipperary; his obituary was published in the Irish Times of Friday, January 14th 1910.
"Canon G.A. Proctor. We regret to announce the death which occurred at Tullamelan Rectory on Sunday of the Rev. George Allen Proctor M.A., Canon of Kilrossanty. Canon Proctor, who was in his 95th year was ordained in the year 1840. He was admitted to the United Diocese in 1871 and was instituted Rector of Tullamelan. For the long period of 39 years he discharged the duties of Rector of the parish where he was esteemed by the people of all classes and creeds. In 1883 he was appointed Prebendary of Kilrossanty and he was also a Rural Dean.")
The older George Allen Proctor, who was the husband of Louisa Willis of Portarlington, died on 10th August 1848 in Delgany, Co. Wicklow, aged 70. His death was announced in the Freeman's Journal of Saturday, August 19th 1848. The street directories had earlier noted him as resident in 5 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin, from 1845 till 1848.
George Allen Proctor and Louisa Willis had two children - George Allen Proctor Junior, born in Dublin in about 1832, and Louisa Proctor, born in Dublin in about 1830. George Allen Proctor Junior entered the church.
In 1861, George Allen Proctor was the curate of Northam and Southton in St. Marys, Southampton, and was living there with his sister, Louisa, and his widowed mother, Louisa Proctor, née Willis. He was 29; his sister was 31, and both had been born in Dublin.
George married Eliza Vincent Clarke on November 7th 1867 in Micheldever, Southampton. Born in Hampshire in about 1845, Eliza was the daughter of another Irish vicar, Thomas Clarke. The wedding was witnessed by Louisa Proctor, Agnes M.E. Clinton and Henry P. Clarke. George's father was noted as George Allen Proctor, gentleman.
Eliza Vincent Clarke's father, Thomas Clarke, had been born in Cork in about 1789, and, in 1851, he was the Vicar of Micheldever, the parish where his daughter later married George Allen Proctor. His wife, Ann Agnes, had been born in Lambeth, Surrey in about 1808. The children of Thomas Clarke and Ann Agnes were, according to the 1841 and 1851 Micheldever census:
Rev. Thomas Clarke died in Micheldever on 9th January 1870, and his will was proved by two of his sons, Rev. Thomas Grey Clarke of Odiham, and Arthur Francis Clarke of 94 Adelaide Road, St. John's Wood.
Rev. George Allen Proctor, who married Eliza Vincent Clarke, was the Vicar of Hatherden, Andover, Hampshire in the 1870's - the UK census the took a snapshotof the family in 1871 when George Allen Procter was the Vicar of St. James in Southampton. His unmarried sister, Louisa Procter, was living with the young family at the time of the census.
By 1881, the family were still in Hatherden in 1881. Their children were:
From 'Crockford's Clerical Directory' of 1882 : 'Proctor, George Allen, Hatherden Vic., Andover - T.C.D.; BA 1852, Div. Test (2) 1856, MA 1858, p 1857 by Bp. of Lich. V. of Hatherden 1875, S. Dis. Win. 1875. Formerly V. of St. James, Southampton 1863 - 71; Smannell near Andover 1871 - 75.'
George Allen Proctor Junior died on 10th July 1885 at 31 St. Johns Road, Bristol; his unmarried sister, Louisa Proctor, was present at his death. Louisa Proctor lived with her brother's family - she died in Scwifat in Syria on 2nd March 1902, and her will was proved in Dublin by her relative, Henry de Laval Willis, who was the son of William Newcombe Willis, who was the son of Thomas Gilbert Willis, who was himself the son of Thomas Willis of Portarlington. Louisa Procter was the daughter of Henrietta Louisa Willis who was the daughter of Thomas Willis of Portarlington.
In 1891, the widowed Eliza Vincent Procter was living in Clifton, Bristol at 31 St. John's Road, along with her children, George Herbert Procter, a medical student, Annabel Louisa, Henrietta Dorothea, Henry Vincent T., and Ruth.
George Herbert Procter and Grace Mabel Staples:
The oldest son of George Allen Procter and Eliza Vincent Clarke, the doctor George Herbert Procter, married Grace Mabel Staples, the daughter of a London doctor, Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, in St. John's, Paddington, on 10th September 1895. The witnesses were George Herbert's aunt, Louisa Prosser, and his father-in-law Joseph H.P. Staples. (Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, 1832 - 1895, was himself the son of a London doctor, Joseph Staples.)
A son of George Herbert and Grace Mabel Proctor was George Henry Vincent Procter, who was killed in action during the Great War on 6th September 1917 in either France or Flanders. His home address at the time of his death was the family home at Kingston Villa, London Road, Southborough, Kent, where his father, George Herbert Proctor, had himself died young on 13th August 1907. George Henry Vincent Procter had been born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 7th September 1896; a sister, Mary Frances Adelaide Procter, was born there on 26th November 1898. Grace Mabel Procter, née Staples, died in Kent in 1910. Her daughter, Mary Procter, died in Warminster, Wiltshire, in 1939.
Other children of George Herbert Procter and Eliza Vincent Clarke were Thomas Herbert W. Procter, born 1901, Grace Eleanor May Procter 1905 - 1972, and Frederick John P. Procter who was born in 1908 and who died in infancy. In 1911, the orphaned Grace E. M. Proctor, aged 5, was living with her widowed aunt, Edith Frances Winckworth, at 25 Gordon Place, Kensington. Edith was the sister of Grace Mabel Staples - she had been born in Paddington in about 1865 to Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, and had married the solicitor, Douglas Powell Winckworth, in St. John's, Paddington, on 31st July 1901. He died, however, on 14th September 1904.
Edith F. Winckworth proved the 1917 will of her nephew, George Henry Vincent Proctor. In her turn, the unmarried Grace Eleanor May Procter proved the will of her aunt when Edith Frances Winckworth died at the same Kensington address on 21st January 1954.
Speculation: there was a George Allen Proctor in the Amicable Society of Printers, who had married Mary Weldon of St. Peter’s Dublin in 1795. This man’s son, Edmund, entered Trinity College in 1823. Perhaps Louisa Willis was his second, younger wife?
(A second George Allen Proctor was born in Dublin to Thomas and Anne Proctor in 1816 - he would have been 9 years old when Louisa Willis married the other one, and was, perhaps, the nephew of the older man. This younger George Allen Proctor entered the church and spent 39 years as rector of Tullamelan, Clonmel, Tipperary; his obituary was published in the Irish Times of Friday, January 14th 1910.
"Canon G.A. Proctor. We regret to announce the death which occurred at Tullamelan Rectory on Sunday of the Rev. George Allen Proctor M.A., Canon of Kilrossanty. Canon Proctor, who was in his 95th year was ordained in the year 1840. He was admitted to the United Diocese in 1871 and was instituted Rector of Tullamelan. For the long period of 39 years he discharged the duties of Rector of the parish where he was esteemed by the people of all classes and creeds. In 1883 he was appointed Prebendary of Kilrossanty and he was also a Rural Dean.")
The older George Allen Proctor, who was the husband of Louisa Willis of Portarlington, died on 10th August 1848 in Delgany, Co. Wicklow, aged 70. His death was announced in the Freeman's Journal of Saturday, August 19th 1848. The street directories had earlier noted him as resident in 5 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin, from 1845 till 1848.
George Allen Proctor and Louisa Willis had two children - George Allen Proctor Junior, born in Dublin in about 1832, and Louisa Proctor, born in Dublin in about 1830. George Allen Proctor Junior entered the church.
In 1861, George Allen Proctor was the curate of Northam and Southton in St. Marys, Southampton, and was living there with his sister, Louisa, and his widowed mother, Louisa Proctor, née Willis. He was 29; his sister was 31, and both had been born in Dublin.
George married Eliza Vincent Clarke on November 7th 1867 in Micheldever, Southampton. Born in Hampshire in about 1845, Eliza was the daughter of another Irish vicar, Thomas Clarke. The wedding was witnessed by Louisa Proctor, Agnes M.E. Clinton and Henry P. Clarke. George's father was noted as George Allen Proctor, gentleman.
Eliza Vincent Clarke's father, Thomas Clarke, had been born in Cork in about 1789, and, in 1851, he was the Vicar of Micheldever, the parish where his daughter later married George Allen Proctor. His wife, Ann Agnes, had been born in Lambeth, Surrey in about 1808. The children of Thomas Clarke and Ann Agnes were, according to the 1841 and 1851 Micheldever census:
- Susan Clarke, born 1821.
- William Clarke, born 1826.
- George Clarke, born 1832.
- Charles Clarke, born 1833.
- Sarah Clarke, born 1835.
- Agnes G. Clarke, born 1835.
- (Arthur) Francis Clarke, born 1836 - a ship-broker, he married Georgiana Mary Walker in Enfield on 27th April 1858. They settled in Hamsptead, Middlesex. In 1871 they were visited by an Isabella M. Clarke, who had been born in Cork in 1847, and was most likely a cousin. The Middlesex-born children of Arthur Francis Clarke and Georgiana Mary Walker were Arthur T. Clarke born 1860, Adelina M. Clarke born 1862, Beatrice G. Clarke born 1863, Alfred O. Clarke born 1865, Gertrude F. Clarke born 1867, Henry A. Clarke born 1869, Francis G. Clarke born 1870, Mabella E. Clarke born 1872 and Charles L. Clarke born 1874. By 1881, Arthur Francis Clarke, shipbroker, had died.
- Claudius Clarke, born 1838.
- Henry Clarke, born 1840 - this must be the Henry P. Clarke who witnessed Eliza's wedding to George Allen Proctor.
- Eliza Vincent Clarke, born 1845, who married George Allen Proctor.
- Frances M. Clarke, born 1847.
- Mary S. Clarke, born 1848.
Rev. Thomas Clarke died in Micheldever on 9th January 1870, and his will was proved by two of his sons, Rev. Thomas Grey Clarke of Odiham, and Arthur Francis Clarke of 94 Adelaide Road, St. John's Wood.
Rev. George Allen Proctor, who married Eliza Vincent Clarke, was the Vicar of Hatherden, Andover, Hampshire in the 1870's - the UK census the took a snapshotof the family in 1871 when George Allen Procter was the Vicar of St. James in Southampton. His unmarried sister, Louisa Procter, was living with the young family at the time of the census.
By 1881, the family were still in Hatherden in 1881. Their children were:
- George Herbert Proctor, baptised 7th March 1869.
- Annabel Louisa Proctor, christened 14th August 1870 in Hampshire.
- Edmund Willis Procter, born 1872 in Hampshire.
- Ellen E., 1874 in Hampshire.
- Henrietta D., born 1876 in Hampshire.
- Henry V.T., born 1879 in Sussex.
- Ruth, born 1881 in Hampshire.
From 'Crockford's Clerical Directory' of 1882 : 'Proctor, George Allen, Hatherden Vic., Andover - T.C.D.; BA 1852, Div. Test (2) 1856, MA 1858, p 1857 by Bp. of Lich. V. of Hatherden 1875, S. Dis. Win. 1875. Formerly V. of St. James, Southampton 1863 - 71; Smannell near Andover 1871 - 75.'
George Allen Proctor Junior died on 10th July 1885 at 31 St. Johns Road, Bristol; his unmarried sister, Louisa Proctor, was present at his death. Louisa Proctor lived with her brother's family - she died in Scwifat in Syria on 2nd March 1902, and her will was proved in Dublin by her relative, Henry de Laval Willis, who was the son of William Newcombe Willis, who was the son of Thomas Gilbert Willis, who was himself the son of Thomas Willis of Portarlington. Louisa Procter was the daughter of Henrietta Louisa Willis who was the daughter of Thomas Willis of Portarlington.
In 1891, the widowed Eliza Vincent Procter was living in Clifton, Bristol at 31 St. John's Road, along with her children, George Herbert Procter, a medical student, Annabel Louisa, Henrietta Dorothea, Henry Vincent T., and Ruth.
George Herbert Procter and Grace Mabel Staples:
The oldest son of George Allen Procter and Eliza Vincent Clarke, the doctor George Herbert Procter, married Grace Mabel Staples, the daughter of a London doctor, Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, in St. John's, Paddington, on 10th September 1895. The witnesses were George Herbert's aunt, Louisa Prosser, and his father-in-law Joseph H.P. Staples. (Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, 1832 - 1895, was himself the son of a London doctor, Joseph Staples.)
A son of George Herbert and Grace Mabel Proctor was George Henry Vincent Procter, who was killed in action during the Great War on 6th September 1917 in either France or Flanders. His home address at the time of his death was the family home at Kingston Villa, London Road, Southborough, Kent, where his father, George Herbert Proctor, had himself died young on 13th August 1907. George Henry Vincent Procter had been born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 7th September 1896; a sister, Mary Frances Adelaide Procter, was born there on 26th November 1898. Grace Mabel Procter, née Staples, died in Kent in 1910. Her daughter, Mary Procter, died in Warminster, Wiltshire, in 1939.
Other children of George Herbert Procter and Eliza Vincent Clarke were Thomas Herbert W. Procter, born 1901, Grace Eleanor May Procter 1905 - 1972, and Frederick John P. Procter who was born in 1908 and who died in infancy. In 1911, the orphaned Grace E. M. Proctor, aged 5, was living with her widowed aunt, Edith Frances Winckworth, at 25 Gordon Place, Kensington. Edith was the sister of Grace Mabel Staples - she had been born in Paddington in about 1865 to Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, and had married the solicitor, Douglas Powell Winckworth, in St. John's, Paddington, on 31st July 1901. He died, however, on 14th September 1904.
Edith F. Winckworth proved the 1917 will of her nephew, George Henry Vincent Proctor. In her turn, the unmarried Grace Eleanor May Procter proved the will of her aunt when Edith Frances Winckworth died at the same Kensington address on 21st January 1954.