When Louisa Clowes was born in 1847, in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Nathan Cox Clowes, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Cox, was 31. She married John Adkinson on 25 July 1871, in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in December 1928, at the age of 81, and was buried in Kibworth Villages New Cemetery, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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