Mary Clark

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Clark was born in 1768, in Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States, her father, Capt. James Clark, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ann Marston, was 28. She married Moses Hudson on 15 October 1789, in Culpeper, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1867, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 99.

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Family Time Line

Moses Hudson
1766–1844
Mary Clark
1768–1867
Marriage: 15 October 1789
Elizabeth Hudson
1790–
Wesley Hudson
1804–1870
James Hudson
1793–1856
Lucinda Hudson
1796–1875
William Hudson
1796–1819
Mary Polly Hudson
1797–1859
Bersheba C Hutson
1802–1851
Thompson Hudson
1808–1851
Reuben Hudson
1812–
Mildred Hudson
1812–1879
Ballard Hudson
1813–1874

Sources (9)

  • Mary Clark, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
  • Mary Clark in entry for Moses Hudson, "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901"
  • Mary Clark in entry for Moses Hudson, "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901"

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World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1792 · Becomes the 15th State

On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

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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