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
Sources (2)
- Beryl Alma CLARK COLLINS, "BillionGraves Index"
- Beryl Alma Clark Collins, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1927–2004 Male
1925–2001 Female
Parents and Siblings
1892–1970 Male
1899–1974 Female
Siblings (2)
1925–2001 Female
1927–2011 Female
World Events (8)
1939
Age 14
1940
Age 15
1950
Age 25
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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