When Hannah Clough was born about 1770, in Arundel, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Clough, was 28 and her mother, Zurviah 'Elvira' Hutchins, was 25.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a precipitous slope, Middle English clo(u)gh, clou, clew (Old English clōh) ‘ravine, steep-sided valley’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example in Lancashire, Cumbria, or Yorkshire.
English: in the East Midlands, East Anglia, and southeastern England, probably more often a variant of Clow .
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