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Clock is possibly a variation of Glock, a Germanic surname indicating one's ancestors lived by the bell tower of a church. Hanks & Hodges's A Dictionary of Surnames gives Clocke as the Flemish form and Klok and Klokke as Dutch forms of Glock.

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My Dutch name dictionary (Woordenboek van Voornamen by J. Van Der Schaar) says that Marchien is used as a pet form of both Margareta and Maria in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands.