Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Clark was born on 23 December 1773, in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Moses Clarke, was 36 and his mother, Mehetable French, was 32. He married Jane Robinson on 19 October 1794, in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died in July 1802, in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Moses Clark in entry for William Henry Clark, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Moses Clark, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
Spouse and Children
1773–1802 Male
1772– Female
Children (5)
1794– Male
1796–1863 Male
1799–1840 Male
1800–1863 Male
1802– Female
Parents and Siblings
1737–1817 Male
1741–1832 Female
Siblings (9)
1765–1846 Female
1767–1817 Male
1769–1827 Male
1771–1856 Female
1773–1802 Male
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World Events (7)
1776
Age 3
1776
Age 3
1783 · A Free America
Age 10
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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