When Lydia Clark was born about 1742, in Newcastle, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Josiah Clark, was 39 and her mother, Patience Blackstone, was 31. She married Nathaniel Rawlins in 1754, in Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1783, in Newcastle, Lincoln, Maine, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Lincoln Cemetery, Newcastle, Lincoln, Maine, United States.
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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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