Brief Life History of Mary
Mary Clark was born in 1810, in Alabama, United States. She married Samuel Andress or Andrews on 17 July 1873, in DeWitt, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died after 1877, in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas, United States, and was buried in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Mary Dorli?Ty, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Mary Dorhity, "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973"
- Mary Dorhity, "Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973"
Spouse and Children
1797–1877 Male
1810–1877 Female
Children (1)
– Female
World Events (8)
1812
Age 2
1819 · Alabama Becomes a State
Age 9
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 20
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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