Brief Life History of Jane
Jane Clark married Elias J Hammond in 1882, in Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Jane Clark in entry for Hammond and Sumprise, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Jane Clark in entry for Hammond and Story, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Jane Clark in entry for A J Hammond, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
Spouse and Children
1850–1912 Male
– Female
Children (2)
1845–1896 Male
1860–1911 Male
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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