Brief Life History of Rebecah
When Rebecah Clark was born on 12 October 1754, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Uriah Clark, was 33 and her mother, Ruth Hastings, was 33.
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- Rebecah Clark, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
Parents and Siblings
1721–1766 Male
1721– Female
Siblings (8)
1744– Female
1746–1747 Male
1748– Female
1750–1750 Male
1750– Male
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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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