Charlotte COOK CLARK [834]

   Other names for Charlotte were Charlotte CLARK and Charlotte COOK.

  General Notes:

The descendants were told her name was Charlotte Kelly. Marriage certificate states her name as Charlotte Clark and her parents as John Clark and Mary Cook her husband's death certificate also has her named as Charlotte Clark. Her daughter Mary O'Connor was the informant on Charlotte's death certificate and gives Charlottes parent's names as Edward Kelly and Mary Cook.

Charlotte was born in October 1881 and in November 1881 her mother aged 19 years, married a 40 year old widower named William Best. It would appear that this marriage was short lived. In 1884 Charlotte's mother had the next of her additional 11 children. All of those children were registered at birth with the surname of Best, however the fathers name was always listed as unknown. William Best died in South Australia in 1912 and Charlotte's mother married Edward Kelly in 1910 in Bordertown, SA. On the marriages that I have found of the Best siblings, the females were married under the name Best, but the males all married under the name of Kelly and all the deaths that I have found of the Best siblings have died with the surname of Kelly and with Edward Kelly named as their father.

I have found an obituary for Edward Kelly which states he arrived in Nhill in 1884 so it is possible that Edward Kelly was the father of Charlottes 11 siblings.

Charlotte married Daniel George SULLIVAN [833] [MRIN: 249], son of Michael SULLIVAN [808] and Hughina Clark ROSS [809], on 16 Jul 1906 in Bendigo, Vic, Australia.¹⁵⁷⁶ (Daniel George SULLIVAN [833] was born on 15 Dec 1873 in Newstead, Vic, Australia,¹⁵⁷⁷ died on 24 Apr 1917 in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia ^{1578,1579,1580} and was buried on 27 Apr 1917 in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia.)