Brief Life History of Thankful
Thankful Clark was born about 1765. She married James Gage Sr. on 12 July 1783, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 7 September 1852, in Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Old Yard Cemetery, Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Thankful Gage in household of Jotham D Frost, "United States Census, 1850"
- Thankful in entry for Charlotte Gage, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Thankful in entry for James Gage, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
Spouse and Children
1762–1829 Male
1765–1852 Female
Children (6)
1784– Male
1787–1820 Female
1789–1870 Female
1792–1840 Male
1794– Female
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1773
Age 8
1776
Age 11
1788 · The First Presidential Election
Age 23
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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