When Mary "Polly" Clark was born on 6 June 1744, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Clarke, was 37 and her mother, Mary Bird, was 25. She married Capt. Charles Polk in March 1762, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 8 October 1776, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Union, North Carolina, United States.
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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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