Researching Dugald Clerk
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 775 people with the Clerk surname? In that year Clerk was ranked number 2806 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Dugald means "black stranger" and is of Scottish origin.
Records of Dugald Clerk on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dugald Clerk and the Clerk Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 104 people with the Clerk surname in the UK? Clerk is now ranked number 3944 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Dugald Clerk
Dugald Clerk
Sir Dugald Clerk (sometimes written as Dugald Clark) KBE, LLD FRS (1854, Glasgow – 1932, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke enginein 1878 and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson's University in Glasgow (now the University of Strathclyde), and Yorkshire College, Leeds (now the University of Leeds). He formed the intellectual property firm with George Croydon Marks, called Marks & Clerk. He was knighted on 24 August 1917.
Source: Dugald Clerk, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Clerk
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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