When Obadiah Cleasby was born in 1749, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ezekiel Clisby, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Wheaton, was 30. He married Mrs Obadiah Cleasby in 1770, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English (northern): habitational name from Cleasby in the North Yorkshire, a placename denoting the farmstead or village (Old Norse býr) of a man named with an Old Norse personal name, either Kleppr or perhaps Kless (a nickname from a word meaning ‘inarticulate in speech’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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