When Hattie E. Clark was born on 20 April 1878, in Spragueville, Rossie, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, her father, Bardine Francis Clark, was 29 and her mother, Emogene Josephine Carr, was 23. She lived in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1880. She died on 17 April 1879, in Spragueville, Rossie, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Antwerp, Antwerp, Jefferson, New York, 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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