When Susannah Clark was christened on 21 October 1728, in Royston, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Clarke, was 29 and her mother, Susanna Milton, was 26. She married John Saddington on 13 August 1761, in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 11 July 1781, in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 52, and was buried in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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