When Andrew Clark was born on 4 November 1791, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, his father, Michael Clark, was 48 and his mother, Mary Kissock, was 35. He married Margaret McBride on 24 May 1811, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 4 March 1855, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 63, and was buried in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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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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