Brief Life History of James Clifton
When James Clifton Durant was born on 26 April 1882, in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, John Thomas Durant, was 29 and his mother, Caroline Elizabeth Wilson, was 24. He died on 5 June 1890, in his hometown, at the age of 8.
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English (of Norman origin) and French: variant of Durand .
English: variant of Darwent, a habitational name from Derwent in Derbyshire (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) or Darwen in Lancashire, both named from rivers called Derwent, or, less frequently, from similarly named rivers in Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow abundantly’.
Altered form of French Doiron .
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