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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : variant of Cleghorn.
  • James Claghorn was shipped to New England in 1651 as a prisoner, having been one of the Scottish opponents of Oliver Cromwell. In 1662 he is recorded as a freeman of Barnstable, MA.

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