When Richard Marshall Clark was born in February 1789, in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Merrit Clark, was 43 and his mother, Lydia Rogers Masters, was 31. He married Eliza A Mardenbrough on 20 October 1822, in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Orange, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1850. He died on 19 January 1854, in West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Geneva, Ontario, New York, United States.
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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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