The Clarkson paternal line
Seven generations, from a man who appears in the Dutch records only as a name to the present day. This site shows what each link in that chain actually rests on — which records, which archive, and where the chain still has nothing underneath it.
Everything here is generated from two things: the family tree file (pascal_clarkson_cleaned.ged) and the archive scans sitting beside it. Nothing is typed in by hand. If a claim has a record behind it, you can click through to the record and the image. If it does not, the page says so.
The state of the line
The chain, link by link
Each row is one generation handing to the next. The label says how well thatlink is evidenced — not how much is known about the person.
| Gen. | Person | Link to the generation above |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Rolston Clarkson | top of the line — nothing above to link to |
| 2 | Abraham David Salomons Clarkson | Primary record |
| 3 | Abraham Clarkson | Primary record |
| 4 | Herman François Clarkson | Primary record |
| 5 | Willem Clarkson | Unverified |
| 6 | Ronald Herman Clarkson | Unverified |
| 7 | Living person | Unverified |
Walk the line generation by generation →
What was settled, and what was not
Settled by record
- Generation 3 to 4. The marriage of Herman François Clarkson and Josina Elizabeth van den Bos — long looked for in Den Helder — turned out to be inRotterdam, 16 July 1907, and it names his parents.
- Generation 1 to 2. Proven twice over: the 1837 Vlissingen marriage and the 1876 Bergen op Zoom death both name Robert (Rolston) Clarkson and Catharina (Maria) Salomons.
- Generation 2 to 3. The 1853 Vlissingen birth record, read from the scan.
- Henriëtte Helen's birthplace. Meester Cornelis, not Willem I, on three independent records.
Still missing or disputed
- Abraham Clarkson's death, 1882. No record anywhere, in Breda or elsewhere.
- François David's death, 1908. Simon's Town or Liège; nothing decides it.
- Hermine van Ede van der Pals. Named in four records, but no birth, marriage or death of her own.
- Robert Rolston Clarkson himself. Proven as a father, but a name and nothing more.
- Generations 5 to 7. Indies and modern records, outside what has been searched.
See every open question, with where to look next →
How to read the labels
These come straight from the GEDCOM: the citation quality (QUAY) on each fact, and notes flagged CONFLICT: or CHECK:. The method pageexplains the mapping.