Olive Clark

Female1891–5 August 1961

Brief Life History of Olive

When Olive Clark was born in 1891, in Patumāhoe, Auckland, New Zealand, her father, Joseph Clark, was 41 and her mother, Sarah Matilda Kieth, was 37. She died on 5 August 1961, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Clark
1850–1918
Sarah Matilda Kieth
1854–1939
Amelia Jane Clark
1879–1961
Donald Keith Clark
1882–1957
Blanche Matilda Clark
1883–1961
Mabel Waters Clark
1886–1973
Norman Joseph Mclean Clark
1890–1961
Olive Clark
1891–1961
James Percival Clark
1895–1968

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    World Events (8)

    1893

    Age 2

    New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.

    1896 · National Council of Women

    Age 5

    The National Council of Women of New Zealand was created as an organization after women won the right to vote. Today works to help achieve gender equality in New Zealand and in 2017 introduced Gender Equal NZ, which is fighting for Zealanders to have the freedom and opportunity to determine their own future no matter which gender they are.

    1914

    Age 23

    Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.

    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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