When Martha Theresa Clark was born on 1 January 1793, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, Joseph Silther Clark, was 31 and her mother, Sarah "Sally" Clayton, was 41. She married Thomas A McGill on 23 November 1819, in Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 29 April 1863, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70.
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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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