Brief Life History of Birdsey Hill
When Birdsey Hill Clark was born in 1797, in Utica, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Silas Clark, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Hill, was 31. He married Amelia Schoff on 22 November 1838, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Oxford Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 2 June 1883, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Old Pioneer Cemetery, Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States.
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- B H Clark, "United States Census, 1850"
- Birdsey W Clark, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Birdsey Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
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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