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Close Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some sort such as a courtyard set back from the main street or a farmyard from Middle English clos(e) (Old French clos from Late Latin clausum past participle of claudere ‘to close’). Possibly also a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in such a place. English: from Middle English clos(e) ‘secret’ applied as a nickname for a reserved or secretive person. Dutch: variant of Cloos . German: variant of Klose and in North America (also) an altered form of this. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Clos, Crose, Clare, Grose, Clower, Closs, Lose, Klos, Loose, Clore
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Plot No. 3017

Robert Shaw Close 1812 - 1883
Maria Close 1818 - 1884

Robert Shaw CLOSE Plot 3107

Inscription

In Loving Memory
Of
Robert Shaw Close
For Eighty? Years Vicar Of
Kirkby Ravensworth Who
Entered Into? Rest At Bilton Grange
On March 16th 1883
And Of Maria His Wife Who
Entered Into Rest? ?? While?
June 1st 1884
Blest??????

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Plot No.	Name	Burial Date	Age
??	N E Close	3 Jul 1943	83
3017	R S Close	20 Mar 1883	71
3017	M Close	4 Jun 1884	65

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