Brief Life History of Sarah
Sarah Clark was born in 1639, in England. She married William Mason in 1662, in Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 23 October 1682, at the age of 43.
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- Seusana Masson in entry for William Masson, "England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers"
- Susanna in entry for Barbara Mason, "England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers"
- Susana in entry for Anne Massone, "England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers"
Spouse and Children
1637– Male
1639–1682 Female
Children (7)
1663– Male
1666–1685 Female
1668–1697 Male
1671– Male
1675– Female
+2 More Children
World Events (1)
1642 · The English Civil War
Age 3
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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