Brief Life History of Howard
When Howard Clark was born on 9 December 1889, in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Clarke, was 31 and his mother, Jane Hickman, was 33. He married Annie Rebecca Molineaux on 14 July 1916, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 18 March 1952, at the age of 62, and was buried in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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- Howard Clark in household of John Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
- England, Free BMD Birth Registration
- Find A Grave
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World Events (8)
1901 · East Lancashire Royal Engineers
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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