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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Parents and Siblings
1850–1918 Male
1854–1939 Female
Siblings (7)
1879–1961 Female
1882–1957 Male
1883–1961 Female
1886–1973 Female
1890–1961 Male
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World Events (8)
1893
Age 2
1896 · National Council of Women
Age 5
1914
Age 23
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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