Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Clark was born in 1703, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Clark, was 25 and his mother, Penelope Johnson, was 25. He married Katherine Cowley in 1725, in Isle of Man. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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1703– Male
1705–1776 Female
Children (1)
1728– Male
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
Age 99
1815
Age 112
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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