Brief Life History of Elijah
When Elijah Clark was born on 11 April 1780, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, James Clark, was 39 and his mother, Ruth Hawley, was 35. He died on 6 June 1785, in Montgomery, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 5.
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- Elijah Clark, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
Parents and Siblings
1740–1809 Male
1744–1809 Female
Siblings (14)
1757–1836 Female
1765–1770 Female
1767–1835 Male
1771–1817 Male
1773–1847 Male
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World Events (3)
1781 · The First Constitution
Age 1
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
Age 1
1783 · A Free America
Age 3
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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