Brief Life History of Margaret Ellen
When Margaret Ellen Clark was born about 4 April 1876, in Drummond North Elmsley, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, Samuel Clarke, was 46 and her mother, Mary Horricks, was 41. She married Thomas Rossington Moulton on 29 January 1902. She lived in Drummond Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Qu'Appelle, South Qu'Appelle No. 157, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1906. She died on 15 May 1959, at the age of 83.
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- Margaret Clarke in household of Samuel Clarke, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Mary E Clarke, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Margaret E Moulton in household of Rossington Moulton, "Canada Census, 1906"
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World Events (6)
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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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