Miss Julia Clark
(1844-1924)
1 September 1861

Volume 9, page 126, sitting number 11,501. 

[Identified as ‘Miss Julia Clark’ in the Silvy daybooks, this is probably the Miss Julia Clark, who acted as a bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Miss Rosalie Eyre Clark to John Hoppus Devenish in Bristol on 29 July 1863.]

Born in Bristol on 26 December 1844, Grace Clark was the ‘daughter of E. Clark, Esq., of Brentry, late a member of the well-known firm of Messrs. Clark, Fussell, and Prichard, solicitors, of this city’ (Bristol Times and Mirror, 1 August 1863). She was baptised at St Michael the Archangel on the Mount in Bristol on 14 April 1846. 

She appears on the 1851 census, living at Clifton Park House in Bristol with her father Edward Clark, an attorney, and her siblings. Also present on the night of the census were a governess and five servants, including a butler. 

Alongside her sisters Agatha, Grace, Madeline and Gertrude — and their cousins Martha, Clara and Lucrecia Clark — she was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of her eldest sister Rosalie Eyre Clark in 1863. 

On 27 April 1876 at Holy Trinity in Weston-super-Mare she married brewer Herbert Hall Woodbridge, son of Charles Woodbridge, a banker and solicitor. Their marriage was childless. 

The couple appear on the 1881 census living at Ashley Rise in Pinner, Middlesex. The household included three servants, all female. 

In 1911 they were living in Great Malvern in Worcestershire. Herbert gave his profession as ‘Retired Brewer.’ 

Mrs Julia Woodbridge died on 24 December 1924 at Hollymount, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. She left an estate valued at £13,212.