Brief Life History of Absalom F.
When Absalom F. Clifford was born on 15 March 1812, in Warren, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Timothy Clifford, was 35 and his mother, Ruth Buffum, was 31. He married Susan P Boynton about 1844, in Orford, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Wentworth, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1850.
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- Absalom Clifford, "United States Census, 1850"
- Absalom Clifford, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Absoleum Clifford in entry for John Clifford, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
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Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Clifford in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The placename is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.
Irish: adoption of the name in 1 above as Anglicization of several Irish names, especially Ó Clúmháin ‘descendant of Clúmhán’, which was the surname of an ecclesiastical family in Sligo and can be traced back to the 12th century. The personal name meant ‘little hairy one’, a diminutive of Irish clúmach ‘hairy’, from clúmh ‘feathers, plumage, down; hair or fur’. Clifford was also adopted for Coleman and in Fermanagh for Crifferty, Clifferty, and Cliffordy, which are Anglicized forms of Mac Raibheartaigh (compare Rafferty ).
History: A powerful Anglo-Norman family of this name in England and Ireland trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, who took the name from Clifford (Castle) in Herefordshire in the 12th century, after acquiring the Clifford barony by marriage.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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