This article is about the Clerk family of Accra, Ghana. For the Clerks of Penicuik, Scotland, see Clerk baronets.
Clerk family
Left to right: A.W. Clerk, N.T. Clerk and C.H. Clerk
Current region
Accra, Ghana
Place of origin
Fairfield, Manchester Parish, Jamaica
Founded
Arrival on the Gold Coast 16 or 17 April 1843 (1843-04-17), Osu, Accra
181 years ago
Founder
Alexander Worthy Clerk
Members
Nicholas Timothy Clerk
Carl Henry Clerk
Jane Elizabeth Clerk
Theodore S. Clerk
Matilda J. Clerk
Nicholas T. Clerk
George C. Clerk
Pauline M. Clerk
Alexander A. Clerk
Connected families
Hesse family
Distinctions
architecture
church development
civil service
diplomacy
education
journalism
medicine
natural sciences
public administration
public health
public policy
urban planning
Traditions
Presbyterian
The Clerk family (/klɑːrk/) is a Ghanaian historic family that produced a number of pioneering scholars and clergy on the Gold Coast.[1][2][3][4][5] Predominantly based in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the Clerks were traditionally Protestant Christian and affiliated to the Presbyterian Church.[1][2] The Clerk family is primarily a member of the Ga coastal people of Accra[6] and in addition, has Euro-Afro-Caribbean heritage, descending from Jamaican,[1][7] German[6][8][9] and Danish[2][10] ancestry.
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Anquandah, James Ghana-Caribbean Relations – From Slavery Times to Present: Lecture to the Ghana-Caribbean Association. National Commission on Culture, Ghana. (November 2006). "Ghana-Caribbean Relations – From Slavery Times to Present: Lecture disambiguation to the Ghana-Caribbean Association" (PDF). National Commission on Culture, Ghana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abc"Clerk, Nicholas Timothy, Ghana, Basel Mission". Dacb. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
^"Alex Clerk and family, catechist in Aburi. – BM Archives". bmarchives. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
^"Rev. and Mrs N. Clerk. :: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960". digitallibrary education. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
^Al, Fashion Et (12 May 2013). "Ghana Rising: History: Ghana's Majestic Past –People & Culture in Black & White from 1850 - 1950". Ghana Rising. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
^ abSill, Ulrike (2010). Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood: The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004188884. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017.
^Clerk, Nicholas, Timothy (1943). The Settlement of West Indian Emigrants on the Gold Coast 1843–1943 – A Centenary Sketch. Accra.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Jena, Geographische Gesellschaft (für Thüringen) zu (1891). Mitteilungen (in German). G. Fischer. p. 77. nicholas timothy clerk basel.
^Jena, Geographische gesellschaft (für Thüringen) zu (1890). Mitteilungen der Geographischen gesellschaft (für Thüringen) zu Jena (in German). G. Fischer.
^Debrunner, Hans W. (1965). Owura Nico, the Rev. Nicholas Timothy Clerk, 1862–1961: pioneer and church leader. Accra: Watervile Publishing House. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017.
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