When Sidney Wilson Clapham was born in 1879, in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Clapham, was 36 and his mother, Esther Pocock, was 36. He married Annie Jane Viney in 1908, in Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom. He lived in London, England in 1901 and Battersea, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died in 1952, at the age of 73.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Clapham, for example in Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Yorkshire, and Devon. The first three are named with Old English clopp(a) ‘lump, hillock’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’, while the Yorkshire placename is formed with an Old English word clæpe ‘noisy stream’. The Devon placename is early recorded as Clopton, formed with clopp(a) ‘lump, hillock’ + tūn ‘farmstead’.
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