Brief Life History of Emerson
When Emerson Clark was born on 10 June 1890, in Bryson, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada, his father, John Henry Clarke, was 31 and his mother, Lucy Jane Wall, was 28. He married Mabel DAVIS on 19 December 1914, in Haileybury, Timiskaming, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Pontiac, Quebec, Canada in 1901 and Pontiac, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada in 1911. He died on 6 February 1968, in Edmonton, Edmonton Metropolitan Region, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 77.
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Sources (7)
- Emerson Clark in household of John H Clark, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Emerson Clarke, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Emerson Clark in entry for Wesley Heman Clark, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
Spouse and Children
1890–1968 Male
1891–1978 Female
Children (1)
1917–1917 Male
Parents and Siblings
1859–1930 Male
1862–1920 Female
Siblings (6)
1885– Female
1886– Male
1888– Male
1890–1968 Male
1895–1976 Female
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World Events (1)
1905
Age 15
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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