Jonathan Clark

Male1703–

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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Jonathan Clark
1703–
Katherine Cowley
1705–1776
Marriage: 1725
Gilbert Clark
1728–

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  • Marriage
    1725Isle of Man
  • Children (1)

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    World Events (2)

    1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

    Age 99

    In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.

    1815

    Age 112

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    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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