Brief Life History of Buney Maria
When Buney Maria Clark was born on 21 February 1878, in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Edward Sumner Clark, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Goulding Pratt, was 38. She died on 6 August 1878, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sources (7)
- B. Maria Clark, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Buney Maria Clark, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Bus... Maria Clark, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
Parents and Siblings
1839–1910 Male
1840–1904 Female
Siblings (6)
1866–1908 Male
1868–1868 Female
1871–1912 Male
1877– Male
1878–1878 Female
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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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