Brief Life History of Sibbil
When Sibbil Clark was born on 2 July 1793, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Eli Clark, was 24 and her mother, Matilda Newton, was 21. She died before 1800.
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- Sibbil Clark, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Sibel Clark, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Sibbil Clark, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English clerk, clark ‘clerk, cleric, writer’ (Old French clerc; see Clerc ). The original sense was ‘man in a religious order, cleric, clergyman’. As all writing and secretarial work in medieval Christian Europe was normally done by members of the clergy, the term clerk came to mean ‘scholar, secretary, recorder, or penman’ as well as ‘cleric’. As a surname, it was particularly common for one who had taken only minor holy orders. In medieval Christian Europe, clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname could become established.
Irish (Westmeath, Mayo): in Ireland the English surname was frequently adopted, partly by translation for Ó Cléirigh; see Cleary .
Americanized form of Dutch De Klerk or Flemish De Clerck or of variants of these names, and possibly also of French Clerc . Compare Clerk 2 and De Clark .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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