When Carl Wilhelm Klauke was born on 30 May 1884, in Datteln, Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, his father, Bernard Wilhelm Klauke, was 36 and his mother, Bernardina Nethoevel, was 29. He married Elisabeth Beckmann on 12 April 1910, in Datteln, Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 14 April 1978, at the age of 93.
From an old-fashioned German spelling variant of Karl , the German version of Charles . It is now increasingly used in the English-speaking world, and for some reason is particularly popular in Wales.
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