When Thomas Claiborne Jr. was born on 9 January 1704, in Sweet Hall, King William, Virginia, United States, his father, Captain Thomas Claiborne Jr., was 23 and his mother, Anne Fox, was 19. He died on 1 December 1735, in his hometown, at the age of 31, and was buried in Sweet Hall Cemetery, King William, Virginia, United States.
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English: variant of Clabburn, possibly a variant of Cliburn , but the latter is a northwest English name whereas Clabburn is found mostly in Norfolk and the South East, so it is more probably from a lost place in that part of England, perhaps named with Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + burne ‘spring, stream’.
History: William Claiborne (c. 1600–77) was a founding colonist in VA. His descendant, William Charles Claiborne (1775–1817) was the first governor of LA.
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