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Home ==> Surnames ==> Clark
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| Surname origins | Occupation Derived from the occupation of an ancestor |
| Meaning | 'Cleric,
scholar, clerk, secretary' In the Middle Ages all writing or 'clerical' work was done by minor orders of the clergy |
| Geographic origins | i) In 1853 the 27th most common name in England and Wales |
| Language | i+ii)
Old English or ii) Old French |
| Sources |
i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967) |
| My
line of the Clark family were agricultural labourers connected with
the Hampshire village of Longparish
from the beginning of the 19th century when Charles and Charlotte
Clark(e) lived in the village. Towards the middle of the century three of their grandsons, including my great grandfather William, left the village and joined the growing exodus of people leaving behind a centuries old rural way of life and moving to London. The three brothers settled in Lambeth where in 1866 William married Mary Way. They later moved to Southwark and had 5 (known) children together. William worked in the capital as a cabman - a driver of a horse-drawn carriage. Their great granddaughter in 1958 married a Bradley. |
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| Links | Longparish: A village history |
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