Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Clark was born about 1790, in New York, United States, her father, James Clark, was 43 and her mother, Lydia Horton, was 41. She married David Kirk on 13 August 1816, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 August 1870, in Delaware, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in West Oxford Cemetery, Windsor Corners, Delaware, Ohio, United States.
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- Esther Kirk in household of David Kirk, "United States Census, 1850"
- Hester Clark, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Esther Clark Kyrk, "Find A Grave Index"
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
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.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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