Brief Life History of Agnes Elizabeth Biles
When Agnes Elizabeth Biles Clark was born in 1836, in Cranborne, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Stephen Clark, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ann Freike, was 30. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with George Handbury. She died on 25 June 1902, in Kew, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 66.
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- Agnes Elizabeth Clarke, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current
- Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
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1836
The District of Port Phillip was formally established as an administrative division within the Colony of New South Wales in September.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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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