When William Kinlock Clark Jr. was born on 17 July 1875, in Eramosa, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, his father, David Clark Jr., was 36 and his mother, Mary Annie Stewart, was 32. He married Livette Murray on 15 August 1901, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Ayr, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Alberta, Canada in 1911. He died on 11 January 1957, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 81.
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 .
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