When Abraham Clements was born about 1622, in England, his father, Robert Clements, was 28 and his mother, Lydia, was 29. He married Elizabeth Jane Pomphrett in 1645, in Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 5 April 1677, in County Cavan, Ireland, at the age of 56.
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Great Catholic-Gaelic rebellion for return of lands, later joined by Old English Catholics in Ireland. Under leadership of Irish chieftain, Rory O'More, conspiracy was formed to seize Dublin and expel the English. English settlers were driven out of Ulster. Catholics hold 59% of land in Ireland.
A series of conflicts regarding England's governance during the years 1642 to 1651 is now known as The English Civil War. Charles I summoned supporters to join him against his enemies in Parliament. In October 1642, nearly 10,000 men fought for Charles I and chased Parliament across the River Tamar. Fighting continued for years and was finally ended at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651, with a Parliamentarian victory.
Over 6,000 Irish boys and women sold as slaves since England gained control of Jamaica.
English, Irish (Tyrone and Antrim), and Dutch: variant of Clement , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. German Clementz and Slovenian patronymic Klemenc (see Klements ).
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