Brief Life History of Percival Duncan
When Percival Duncan Clark was born in December 1896, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Percy Clark, was 25 and his mother, Amy Louisa Berrow, was 24. He married Ethel Midgley-Teale on 20 August 1921, in Hammersmith, Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Percival Clark in household of Percy Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Percival D Clark in household of Percy Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
Spouse and Children
1896– Male
1897– Female
Children (1)
1915– Male
Parents and Siblings
1871–1951 Male
1872– Female
Siblings (6)
1895– Female
1895–1968 Female
1896– Male
1901– Female
1902– Male
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1908
Age 12
1915 · Zeppelins Over London
Age 19
1940
Age 44
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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