Sydney Clark

Maleabout 1808–

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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Family Time Line

Russell Clark
1767–1852
Mercy Carter
1778–1854
Gilbert Clark
1799–1875
Bradley Clark
1801–
Fannie Clark
1801–
Sydney Clark
1808–
Samuel Clark
1811–1881

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    Siblings (5)

    World Events (3)

    1808

    Age 0

    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    1812

    Age 4

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1896

    Age 88

    Consolidated April 1, 1896

    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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