When Thomas Clark was born in 1810, in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Clarke, was 30 and his mother, Maria Saunders, was 25. He married Mary Ann Burton on 25 May 1828, in Bushbury, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Tipton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Sedgley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 17 March 1857, in Bilston, Staffordshire, England, at the age of 47.
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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 .
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