Lorra Clark

Brief Life History of Lorra

When Lorra Clark was born on 2 September 1811, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Samuel Foster Clark, was 36 and her mother, Abagail Presby, was 37. She lived in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States for about 10 years.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Foster Clark
1775–
Abagail Presby
1775–1860
Mary Clark
1794–1816
Anna Clark
1796–
David S Clark
1798–
Samuel Gilman Clark Sr.
1800–1851
Jonathan Clark
1802–
Daniel Dudley Clark
1805–1882
Lucinda Clark
1807–
Abigail Clark
1808–
Lorra Clark
1811–
Martha Clark
1812–

Sources (4)

  • Laura Clark in household of Abagail Clark, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Lorra Clark, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • Laura Clark in household of Abigael Clark, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (8)

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough

In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot. 

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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