When Clara Eliza Compton was born in March 1844, in Medway, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Arthur Jeremiah Newman Compton, was 32 and her mother, Maria Anne Merralls, was 22. She died in September 1844, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in London, England, United Kingdom.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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