Beryl Alma Clark

Female12 January 1925–27 December 2001

Brief Life History of Beryl Alma

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.

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Family Time Line

Mervyn George Collins
1927–2004
Beryl Alma Clark
1925–2001
Marriage: 17 January 1948

Sources (2)

  • Beryl Alma CLARK COLLINS, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Beryl Alma Clark Collins, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    17 January 1948
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    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1939

    Age 14

    Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

    1940

    Age 15

    Australia declares war on Italy.

    1950

    Age 25

    Australian troops sent to Korea.

    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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