When Helen Submit Clark was born on 26 September 1837, in New York, United States, her father, Erastus G. Clark, was 25 and her mother, Hannah Green, was 20. She married Orville Harvey Chaffee on 20 September 1855, in Italy, Yates, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Italy, Yates, New York, United States for about 20 years and Middlesex, Yates, New York, United States in 1870. She died on 20 May 1909, in Middlesex, Middlesex, Yates, New York, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Italy, Yates, New York, United States.
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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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