When William Clifton was born on 10 May 1801, in Dunham, Nottinghamshire, England, his father, John Clifton, was 34 and his mother, Dorothy Roberts, was 34. He married Elizabeth Greensmith on 25 January 1835, in Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Dunham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and Laneham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died on 16 March 1884, in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82, and was buried in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from any of the very numerous places called Clifton, from Old English clif ‘slope’ (see Cliff ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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