Sources and evidence key

Evidence key

• Documented A record states it, and the record, or a printed copy of it, was read.
• Probable Strong agreement, or known only from an index, a transcription or a compiled source.
• Possible A plausible match that has not been confirmed.
• Tradition What the family said. It is told as a story, not as proof.
• Unknown The records examined here do not say.
• Family chart (tree links only): taken from the family's own chart and not independently checked in records.

Printed Massachusetts town vital records are copies of the original town books; the original books were not viewed. A modern family keepsake, such as the challenge coin, is a symbol and not a source. Claims that trees online repeat without a source are not used.

The Oak line

• H. L. Oak, Oak-Oaks-Oakes: Family Register: Nathaniel Oak of Marlborough, Mass., and Three Generations of His Descendants (Los Angeles: Out West Co., 1906), especially pp. 7-8. archive.org/details/oakoaksoakesfami00oakh
• Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (printed), p. 142. Cited without a link.
• Vital Records of Westborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (printed), p. 81. Cited without a link.
• Revolutionary War pension file S.18534, Nathaniel Oak, National Archives microfilm M804, roll 1836. Cited without a link.
• Middlesex County, Mass., probate case 16185 (1722), and Worcester County, Mass., probate case 44119 (1752), indexes. Cited without a link.
• Maine death record of Samuel Oak, 1900, Maine State Archives. Cited without a link.
• Oak family monument, Crowell Cemetery, Exeter, Maine, and the Piscataquis Observer, 6 October 1859. Cited without a link.
• Worcester Magazine, vol. 2 (1826), p. 152. archive.org/details/worcestermagazi00unkngoog
• Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough (Boston, 1862), p. 426. archive.org/details/historyoftownofm00huds

The Clarkson family of Liverpool

• St Paul's Church, Liverpool, marriage register, 6 July 1854.
• All Saints Church, Liverpool, baptism register, 22 June 1858, entry 989.
• St Chad's, Poulton-le-Fylde, marriage of Thomas Clarkson and Nancy Banton, 1 February 1827 (transcription).
• General Register Office death index, Toxteth Park, December quarter 1910.
• Allerton cemetery burial, 13 February 1915 (transcription).
• Houston Daily Post, 29 May 1901.

These are cited without links; no public page for them is recorded.

Recent generations

The links from Charles Ansel Oak to the present come from the family's own chart. They are marked Family chart or Probable in the tree and were not re-proved in records. For living people this site shows only a name, a birth year and family relationships.

Images

• Pages 7 and 8 of the 1906 register: from the Internet Archive scan of a book published in 1906.
• The Oak family challenge coin: a modern family keepsake, shown with the family's permission.