Brief Life History of Ada Minnie
When Ada Minnie Clark was born about May 1895, in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, George William Clark, was 23 and her mother, Jane Craik, was 24. She lived in Carlisle Holy Trinity, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1901.
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Sources (3)
- Ada M Clark in household of George W Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ada Minnie Clark - Government record: Birth record or certificate: birth-name: Ada Minnie Clark
- MINNIE in household of WILLIAM, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
Parents and Siblings
1871– Male
1870– Female
Siblings (3)
1893– Female
1895– Female
1899– Male
World Events (8)
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
Age 9
1908
Age 13
1928 · Women Granted Right to Vote
Age 33
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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