When Joseph Cox Clowes was born on 2 July 1837, in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Nathan Cox Clowes, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Cox, was 21. He married Charlotte Wright on 7 April 1863, in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Cosby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died in 1915, in Blaby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 78.
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English: topographic name from Middle English clouse, cluse, Old English clūse ‘bar, enclosure, narrow pass’, later ‘mill dam, sluicegate, or floodgate’. In the latter sense it may have been a metonymic occupational name applied to a miller. See also Clowser .
English: variant of Close or Clow , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Americanized form of German Klaus .
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