Clementina Ogilvie was Perry (née Clarke)

1776 - 1813


Biography

Daughter of John Clarke and his wife Isobel nee Ogilvie, baptised in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland 29/04/1776. Clementina's family were from modest circumstances but her maternal uncle George Ogilvie had made a fortune in Jamaica, owning Langleys sugar estate in St Mary. George Ogilvie had in 1782 bequeathed his estate to his nephew George Clarke (later Ogilvie) but amended his will in favour of George Clarke's sister Clementina in 1791. Clementina was at Mrs Mills' boarding school in Bristol in 1791 when she was abducted by a local apothecary, Richard Vining Perry. They eloped to Gretna Green and in 1794 Perry was charged with abduction. Perry was acquitted after Clementina testified she had intended to elope with him. The case was widely reported in newspapers at the time.

Clementina Perry, daughter of Richard and Clementina Perry, was baptised at Barwell, Leicestershire, 28/07/1813. Clementina Perry died, age 38 at Bath in September 1813.

George Ogilvie had left an annuity of £400 pa to his wife Barbara nee Dundas and the question of whether the annuity should be charged on his Jamaican or Scottish property formed the case Ogilvie v. Dundas and others.

George Ogilvie had in 1782 bequeathed his estate to his nephew George Clarke (later Ogilvie) but amended his will in favour of George Clarke's sister Clementina in 1791. The question of the inheritance of George Clarke (Clementina's brother) formed the case Marshall and others v. Wedderburn and others.


Sources

New Annual Register, April 1794 pp. 23-24. For a more detailed account see, for example, Naomi Clifford, 'The Bristol elopement: Clementina Clerke and Richard Vining Perry', http://www.naomiclifford.com/the-bristol-elopement/ [accessed 08/04/12016].

Familysearch.org batch no. C03436-2. Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 83 part 2 p. 403 (October 1813).

James Wilson and Patrick Shaw, Cases decided in the House of Lords, on appeal from the Courts of Scotland, 1826, 1827 (Edinburgh, 1829) vol. 2 pp. 216-230.

The Law Journal for the year 1830: comprising reports of cases in the Courts of Chancery, Kings Bench and Common Please, from Michaelmas Term 1829, to Trinity Term 1830 (London, 1830) vol. 8 pp. 37-39.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Maiden Name
Clarke
Spouse
Richard Vining Perry, later Ogilvie
Children
Clementina (1813-) and others

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
23/01/1791 [SD] - 1813 [EY] → Trust beneficiary

Relationships (4)

Wife → Husband
Niece → Uncle
Mother-in-law → Son-in-law
Notes →
Rev. William Marshall was the posthumous son-in-law of Clementina Ogilvie nee Clarke, having married her daughter Isabella in Totnes Devon in 1816, three years after her...
Mother → Daughter

Addresses (3)

Keith, Moray, North-east Scotland, Scotland
Bath, Somerset, South-west England, England
Bristol, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England