Brief Life History of Mary Emma
When Mary Emma Clark was born on 26 April 1824, in Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Clark, was 29 and her mother, Eliza Clark, was 28. She married Henry Francis Marston about 1845, in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in St Lawrence, Hampshire, England in 1851 and Cache Creek Judicial Township, Yolo, California, United States in 1860. She died on 15 April 1866, in Yolo, Yolo, California, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Marys Cemetery, Yolo, Yolo, California, United States.
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- Mary E Clark in household of Joseph Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Maria Louisa Clark, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary E. Marston, "Find A Grave Index"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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