Alec Sidney CLARK

Brief Life History of Alec Sidney

When Alec Sidney CLARK was born on 8 January 1890, in Foots Cray, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry James Clark, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Nash May, was 32. He died on 6 June 1915, in Gallipoli, Gelibolu, Çanakkale, Türkiye, at the age of 25.

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Family Time Line

Henry James Clark
1847–1908
Sarah Nash May
1857–1935
Kathleen Mary CLARK
1886–
Thomas Ralph CLARK
1888–
Alec Sidney CLARK
1890–1915
Dorothy Sarah Saker CLARK
1892–

Sources (2)

  • Alec S Clark in household of Henry J Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
  • Alec Sydney Clark in household of Sarah Nash Clark, "England and Wales Census, 1911"

World Events (4)

1904 · The Entente Cordiale

The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.

1908

London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1914

Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.

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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