Frances Howe Yorath was born on 14.10.1852, and baptised on 8.12.1852, the daughter of Richard Joseph and Mary Ann Yorath. Her brothers were Richard Joseph Yorath, who died single on 11.11.1909, and William Gatward Yorath, who had a son, William Joseph Gatward Yorath. Her sisters were Elizabeth Ellen, born 13.8.1849, who married Edward Digby Holdaway;  Augustus, who died young; and Gwenllian, born 25.5.1856, and died 14.2.1863. She married John Arthur Clark on 19th January 1875 at St John’s Church, Cardiff.