The Clough Family

The meaning of the Surname Clough

Clough means slope or steep mountain valley

Benjamin Clough was my GGGGranddad he was born 4th may 1799 and christened 14th May 1799 at Kirk Bramwith. His mother was Ann Knowlson and his father Robert Clough.

Robert was born in Braithwaite in 1761. He was a farmer of 126 acres and he married Ann on the 8th February 1790. She was born about 1763 and died in Braithwaite, and buried in Kirk Bramwith on 27th May 1846 aged 79. They had a son Robert Clough who was born 9th February 1797 and died in Braithwaite and was buried 16th April 1851 aged 54 years in Kirk Bramwith, he was unmarried. Benjamin married Mary Trimingham 21st March 1831.  In 1832 they were shopkeepers in Braithwaite, Benjamin died in Braithwaite and was buried on the 6th November 1844 aged 45. On the 1851 census his widow Mary was a grocer owning 2 and a half acres of land, she died in Braithwaite on the 18th June 1863 aged 6o years. They had a daughter Mary Ann Clough who was born in Braithwaite, and she was christened on the 30th September 1832 at Kirk Bramwith. On the 1851 census Mary was a dressmaker aged 18 years old. She married my GGGranddad John Sayles a Master Blacksmith from Owston. Mary Ann died 3rd May 1870 aged 37 years old.