Brief Life History of Julia A.
When Julia A. Clark was born in 1826, in Livingston, New York, United States, her father, James Clark, was 33 and her mother, Julia Ann, was 23. She had at least 2 sons with James A. Armstrong. She lived in Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died on 7 January 1906, in Livonia, Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States.
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- Julia Armstrong, "New York State Census, 1875"
- Julia A Armstrong, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Julia Clark in entry for Duane Armstrong and Jennie Dumont, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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