Caroline Clark

Brief Life History of Caroline

When Caroline Clark was born on 24 September 1884, in Union, Clark, Missouri, United States, her father, William Henry Clark, was 42 and her mother, Annie McGuire, was 37. She married Oswald Mclaughlin on 18 February 1911, in Clark, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Harrison, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 31 October 1964, in Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80.

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Oswald Mclaughlin
1883–1954
Caroline Clark
1884–1964
Marriage: 18 February 1911
Mary Opal McLaughlin
1912–2003
Joseph Roland McLaughlin
1915–
William Carl McLaughlin
1917–1981
Anna Grace McLaughlin
1920–2018

Sources (11)

  • Carrie Clark in household of William Clark, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Caroline Clark, "Missouri Births, 1817-1939"
  • Mrs Carrie Mclaughlin, "Illinois, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection, ca. 1959-1981"

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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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