Brief Life History of Charles R
When Charles R Clark was born in 1841, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Fredus Clark, was 42 and his mother, Eliza Crook, was 39. He died on 22 June 1856, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Little City Cemetery, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
Photos and Memories (3)
Do you know Charles R? Do you have a story about him that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account
Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Charles Clark in household of Fredus Clark, "United States Census, 1850"
- Charles R. Clark, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Clark - Published information: Cemetery record or headstone: aka-name: Charles R. Clark
Parents and Siblings
Siblings (8)
+3 More Children
World Events (2)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
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.
Possible Related Names
Discover Even More
As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.