Elizabeth Clark

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

Elizabeth Clark was born as the daughter of Davis Clark and Katherine Clark. She married Matthew Burnett on 11 April 1807, in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died about 1840.

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Family Time Line

Matthew Burnett
1785–1843
Elizabeth Clark
–1840
Marriage: 11 April 1807
John Burnett
1808–1838
Greenbury Burnett
1808–
James S. Burnett
1810–1895
Washington Burnett
1814–
Eliza Burnett
1822–
Alfred A Burnett
1812–1868
Catherine Ellen Burnett
1814–1894
Evaline Burnett
1817–

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    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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