When Elizabeth Cloud was born about 1816, in Tennessee, United States, her father, John Cloud, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Cloud, was 36. She married Jeremiah Briscoe on 23 October 1837, in Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop or hill, from Old English clūd ‘rock’ (only later used to denote vapor formations in the sky), or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Temple Cloud (Somerset), Cloud Bridge (Warwickshire), and Clouds Wood (Hertfordshire).
Native American: translation into English (and shortening) of a personal name based on a word, such as Lakota and Dakota Sioux mahpiya, meaning ‘cloud’. Among the Sioux, several of their traditional personal names with this element were adopted as surnames (translated into English), e.g. Iron Cloud (see Ironcloud ) and Red Cloud (see Redcloud ).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hlodald, composed of the elements hlōd ‘famous, clear’ + wald ‘rule’, which was borne by a Christian saint and bishop of the 6th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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