Rebecah Clark
12 October 1754–
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
The Life 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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Family Time Line
Alva Farnsworth
1804–1866
Rebecah Clark
1754–
Spouse and Children
1804–1866Male
1754–Female
Parents and Siblings
1721–1766Male
1721–Female
siblings
(8)
Mary Clark
1744–Female
Uriah Clark
1746–1747Male
Ruth Clark
1748–Female
Richard
1750–1750Male
Thomas Clark
1750–Male
+3 More Children
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a scribe or secretary, originally a member of a minor religious order who undertook such duties. The word clerc denoted a member of a religious order, from Old English cler(e)c ‘priest’, reinforced by Old French clerc. Both are from Late Latin clericus, from Greek klērikos, a derivative of klēros ‘inheritance’, ‘legacy’, with reference to the priestly tribe of Levites ( see Levy ) ‘whose inheritance was the Lord’. In medieval Christian Europe, clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname could become established. In the Middle Ages it was virtually only members of religious orders who learned to read and write, so that the term clerk came to denote any literate man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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- Rebecah Clark, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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