In my area, the cartographers and clerks have messed up the spelling. Around 1890 +/- the map for Clark County, Washington had written it as "Clarke" County. This persisted for a number of years until we happened to find an earlier map without the final "E". The person in control of the pen happens to have all the control! Arlen Clark retros0000@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: Jim Clark [mailto:jdclark@cedar-rapids.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:36 PM To: CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Clarke-Clark] E in Clark(E) Hi, I've be reading the discussion about the Clark/Clarke. I sometimes think the "e" was a flourish made by some clerk. I've found records for the same person written both ways. What part of WV were your Clarks? Mine were in the Pendleton/Hardy County area about 1780s. Went to Ross/Jackson County, OH about 1800, then Iowa 1840s. Jim Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: <KarenKayeC@aol.com> To: <CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [Clarke-Clark] E in Clark(E) > In a message dated 10/26/2004 6:32:54 PM Central Standard Time, > tasarb@bigpond.net.au writes: > > > Hi Karen, That puzzled me to for some time, I thinks its to cover where > > some > > clark/e's for their own reasons(maybe educational) wrote it as it sounded > > By the way where is your Clark? > > Kind regards > > Tas > > > > They started in Ireland, arrived in WV (then VA) in the 1700s, maybe the > 1790s. Went to Coshocton Co., OH, in early 1800s. Some lines stayed there. Some > went to Indiana about 1840. Some of those went to other parts of Indiana and > some to Iowa. Some of the other parts of Indiana family went to Kansas and > some of them back to Indiana or Colorado. Some of the Iowa folks went to > Washington state and some of them came back to Iowa. > > There seems to have been a good deal of contact among the various groups for > a while since an Iowa ancestor kept a family tree (largely undocumented!) > which has been pretty accurate as we current generations attempt to document them > and uncover new branches and twigs! > > Where is your clan? Any of those places mine were in? > > Karen > Austin, TX > > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== > List search > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CLARKE > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CLARK > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== List search http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CLARKE http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CLARK