CLIFT Surname Distribution
Name: Kathryn Marsh
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Van der Clift is a common Dutch surname. The version in our family is that the Clifts, based around Parson Drove in the Fens, came over with Vermuiden in the late 17th century. For several generations recently eldest sons carried Newton as a Christian name as a second or third Christian name. I have found quite a few Newton Clifts in the US all apparently descended from a common ancestor in Tennessee. To which many emigrants went from East Anglia in the early 18th century. Does anyone know of any Newton Clifts - possibly with a Harry among the Christian na Clift, born in 1886 I know not where but possibly Aldershot
There are several Clift graves in the churchyard at Parson Drove although only those of my grandparents and of my great grandparents are labelled.
kathryn