Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Clark was born about 1783, in New York, United States, her father, John Jay Clark Sr, was 25 and her mother, Abigail Hutchinson, was 37.
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Parents and Siblings
1759–1833 Male
1747–1856 Female
Siblings (5)
1775– Male
1777– Male
1779–1852 Male
1780– Female
1783– Female
World Events (3)
1783 · A Free America
Age 0
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Age 3
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Age 14
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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