When Claude Alfred Earnshaw was born on 5 April 1898, in High Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, his father, Claude Earnshaw, was 37 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Finlinson, was 30. He married Elizabeth E Burton in 1930, in London, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died in September 1981, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Earnshaw in Bradfield, Yorkshire. The placename means ‘eagle wood’, from Old English earn ‘eagle’ + sceaga ‘small wood, copse’.
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