When Jane Susannah Clark was born on 15 September 1840, in Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, her father, John Clark, was 34 and her mother, Martha Davis, was 27. She married Fred Bull in 1861, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 12 April 1924, in New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 83.
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George Grey appointed Governor of South Australia.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
End of transportation to Western Australia.
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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