When James Clark was born on 11 August 1758, in Newcastle, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States, his father, James Clark, was 24 and his mother, Hannah Young, was 23. He married Hannah Given on 8 October 1785, in Newcastle, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Lincoln, Maine, United States in 1758. He died in 1848, in Newport, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 90.
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Historical Boundaries: 1760: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Lincoln, Maine, United States
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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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