When George W. Clark was born on 19 June 1823, in New York, United States, his father, Asa Clark, was 40 and his mother, Polly Shear, was 37. He married Ann Janette Denison on 7 March 1855, in Floyd, Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 15 October 1858, in New York, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Holland Patent, Trenton, Oneida, New York, United States.
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 .
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