Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Clark was christened on 9 July 1825, in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Clark, was 28 and her mother, Alice Dunlin, was 23.
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- Ann Clark, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Parents and Siblings
1797–1873 Male
1801–1873 Female
Siblings (11)
1822– Female
1823– Female
1825– Female
1827– Male
1829– Male
+6 More Children
World Events (3)
1830
1843
1863 · Lendal Bridge Opened
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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