Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Clark was born on 23 September 1709, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Stephen Clark, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Hill, was 25. She died on 23 December 1726, in her hometown, at the age of 17, and was buried in Old Cemetery, North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Martha Clark, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Martha Clark, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Martha Clark, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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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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