Brief Life History of Deborah P
When Deborah P Clark was born on 17 February 1798, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joseph Clarke, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Morton, was 27. She married George Thompson on 4 November 1826, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 23 March 1853, at the age of 55, and was buried in The Green, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Deborah P Thompson in household of George Thompson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Deborah Clarke, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Deborah P. Clark, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
Spouse and Children
1788–1865 Male
1798–1853 Female
Children (1)
1828–1848 Male
Parents and Siblings
1767–1847 Male
1770–1840 Female
Siblings (6)
1792– Male
1794– Male
1798–1853 Female
1799–1836 Female
1805–1868 Male
+1 More Child
World Events (7)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 2
1803
Age 5
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 21
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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