When Franklin Green Clifford was born on 3 November 1827, in Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Phillip Henry Clifford, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Price, was 31. He married Jerusha Campbell on 10 May 1849, in Holt, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 April 1902, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Ben Lomond Cemetery, North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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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.
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Possible Related NamesFranklin Green Clifford by Idana Scott, his granddaughter Franklin Green Clifford was born November 8, 1827 in Hopkinsville, Christian Co. Kentucky. He was the son of John Clifford and Elizabeth …
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