Brief Life History of James Edward
James Edward Clark was born on 5 October 1979, in South Carolina, United States as the son of Katie Lee Clark. He died on 1 April 1980, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in McColl, Marlboro, South Carolina, United States.
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- James Edward Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (2)
1980
Age 1
1980 · The Refugee Act
Age 1
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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