When Abigail Clark was born in 1691, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Richard Clarke, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Norris, was 26. She married Abraham Hendrick about 1709, in Union, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 17 May 1743, in Elizabeth Borough, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 52.
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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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