Brief Life History of Catherine Alexander
When Catherine Alexander Clark was born on 17 May 1903, in Crested Butte, Gunnison, Colorado, United States, her father, Joseph Roxbury Clark, was 35 and her mother, Catharine Alexander, was 28. She married George William Bragg on 12 May 1922, in Colorado, United States. She lived in Thatcher, Las Animas, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 9 November 1991, in Colorado, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Catherine A Bragg, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mrs Catherine Or Dollie Bragg, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Catherine A Bragg in household of George W Bragg, "United States Census, 1930"
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World Events (8)
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1910
Historical Boundaries: 1910: Las Animas, Colorado, United States
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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