When Nehemiah Clough was born about 1732, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nehemiah Clough, was 27 and his mother, Kesiah McMullin, was 23. He died on 28 May 1733, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 2.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a precipitous slope, Middle English clo(u)gh, clou, clew (Old English clōh) ‘ravine, steep-sided valley’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example in Lancashire, Cumbria, or Yorkshire.
English: in the East Midlands, East Anglia, and southeastern England, probably more often a variant of Clow .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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