Brief Life History of Joy Gwendolyn
When Joy Gwendolyn Clark was born on 1 January 1912, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Orlan Seymour Clark, was 42 and her mother, Rhoda Alma Churchill, was 38. She married Joseph Edouard Leon "Leo" Papineau on 4 September 1937, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. She died in 1988, at the age of 76, and was buried in Methodist Cemetery, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Joy Gwendoline Clark, "New Brunswick County Registers of Births Index, ca. 1812-1919"
- Joy Gwendolyn Clark, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- Joy Gwendoline Clark, "Canada, New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920"
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World Events (3)
1937 · Miramichi Strike
August 20, 1937, the Miramichi lumber strike took place. Over 1,500 millworkers and longshoremen struck 14 lumber firms for wage increases.
1955 · Recorder Low Temperature
In 1955, New Brunswick broke the record with a freezing temperature of -47.2° C, in Sisson Dam
1982
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
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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