Earl Richard Clifford

Brief Life History of Earl Richard

Earl Richard Clifford was born on 23 November 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Evelyn May Dillingham. He lived in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States for about 29 years. He died on 12 November 1969, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Jackson Family Burial Ground, Lagrange, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Earl Richard Clifford
1906–1969
Evelyn May Dillingham
1911–2006
Clifford
1929–1929
Nancy Lou Clifford
1931–2023
James Herbert Clifford
1932–2017
John Richard Clifford
1937–1982

Sources (20)

  • Earl J Clifford, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Earl W Richardson, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Earl Clifford, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"

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Name Meaning

English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Clifford in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The placename is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.

Irish: adoption of the name in 1 above as Anglicization of several Irish names, especially Ó Clúmháin ‘descendant of Clúmhán’, which was the surname of an ecclesiastical family in Sligo and can be traced back to the 12th century. The personal name meant ‘little hairy one’, a diminutive of Irish clúmach ‘hairy’, from clúmh ‘feathers, plumage, down; hair or fur’. Clifford was also adopted for Coleman and in Fermanagh for Crifferty, Clifferty, and Cliffordy, which are Anglicized forms of Mac Raibheartaigh (compare Rafferty ).

History: A powerful Anglo-Norman family of this name in England and Ireland trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, who took the name from Clifford (Castle) in Herefordshire in the 12th century, after acquiring the Clifford barony by marriage.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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