When Beryl Alma Clark was born on 12 January 1925, in Bordertown, South Australia, Australia, her father, Edward Albion Clark, was 33 and her mother, Edith Davis, was 25. She married Mervyn George Collins on 17 January 1948. She died on 27 December 2001, in Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 76, and was buried in Keith Cemetery, Keith, South Australia, Australia.
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 .
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