Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Clark was born on 15 June 1824, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Benjamin Thomas Clark Sr, was 25 and her mother, Ann Leaford Shuker, was 22. She married George Handley on 25 June 1846, in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Sugar House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 October 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Handley in household of George Handley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elizabeth Clark, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Clark, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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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Elizabeth Clark Handley, daughter of Ann Shuker and Thomas Clark, was born June 15, 1824, at Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, and married George Handley, June 26, 1844. With most of the members of …
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