Brief Life History of Charles Edward
When Charles Edward Clinton Jr was born on 26 January 1926, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, Charles Edward Clinton, was 33 and his mother, Deseretta Robinson, was 23. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 20 years and Fallbrook, San Diego, California, United States in 2000. He died on 15 January 2004, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Charles E Clinton, Jr, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles Edward Clinton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Charles Edward Clinton, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
Parents and Siblings
1892–1976 Male
1902–1984 Female
Siblings (1)
1926–2004 Male
World Events (8)
1927
Age 1
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Age 8
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
Age 21
Name Meaning
Irish (Louth, Westmeath) and Scottish: shortened form of McClinton .
English: habitational name, either from Glympton in Oxfordshire, named as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Glym river’, a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright stream’, or from Glinton in Northamptonshire, early recorded as Clinton (named with an unrecorded Old English element akin to Middle Low German glinde ‘enclosure, fence’ + Old English tūn). The surname was taken to Ireland in or before the 16th century.
History: Charles Clinton (born 1690 in Longford, Ireland) organized a group of colonists and founded the settlement of Little Britain, Ulster County, NY, in 1731. His son George Clinton (1739–1812) was governor of NY (1777–95), and they had many prominent descendants. — An English aristocratic family called Clinton was founded by Geoffrey de Clinton (flourished 1130), who held lands at Glympton, Oxfordshire. He was chamberlain and treasurer to Henry I (1100–35).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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