Brief Life History of Sydney
When Sydney Clark was born about 1808, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Russell Clark, was 42 and his mother, Mercy Carter, was 31.
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Parents and Siblings
1767–1852 Male
1778–1854 Female
Siblings (5)
1799–1875 Male
1801– Male
1801– Female
1808– Male
1811–1881 Male
World Events (3)
1808
Age 0
1812
Age 4
1896
Age 88
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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