Clover
Family Research Compendium
Created, Edited, and Maintained June Clover Byrne
For the Clover Family Historical Society
Clovers in Connecticut Records
For a scan of the Middlesex County, Connecticut Church Records, more information on the church, and the deed records for that county, see John Clover of Connecticut and New York
US Census Records
See the United States Databases for 1790 to 1850 censuses.1870 US Census Hartford, Connecticut, Canton, NARA M593 roll 102, page 159, line 14:
- Chas Clover 23 white born Canada, [living in what appears to be a boarding house with no family members.]
Note:
I received a message that I had missed a set of Clovers in 1870.
There
is a William Clover family in New Haven listed in Ancestry.
He was black, aged 26. Unfortunately, when I looked at
this, I discovered
that it is a family of Glovers.
1880 Farifield County, Connecticut
Ridgefield NARA T-9, roll 94, page 258A, ED 119, line 7
- John Clover 61 CT CT CT farmer; Eunice Clover 59 wife CT CT CT; Eugene S. 21 son CT CT CT
1910 Waterbury Ward 5, New Haven,
Connecticut NARA T624 roll 141 ED 491 page 13B [on Clover Street]
- James Clover 35 He and both parents were born in Russia Lithuania. They emigrated ca. 1898. He was listed as an alien; Minnie Clover 30 8/4 children. She and parents were also born in Russia Lithuania; John son 10 born CT; Annie dau 9 CT; Anthony son 2 CT; Joseph son 1 CT.
1930
United States Federal Census
1930 Fairfield County, Stamford CT NARA roll 260; ED: 205 sh 18b: Rev. Fred Clover 36 Connecticut Lodger Clergyman Catholic Church. Father born P. E. D. Canada, mother born English Canada.
1930 Hartford, CT Windsor NARA T626 roll 269 ED 241 sh 20a page 185?: George Clover 33 Lithuania Mary 34 Wife Lithuania; Alphonse son 13; Luticia B. dau 10 CT; Algerd F. son 12 CT; Edward son 7 CT He came to US in 1911, she came 1911
1930 Litchfield County, CT Winchester NARA T626 roll 270 ED 56 sh 13a page 270: Joseph Clover 25 MA MA MA clerk in restaurant; Helen wife 31MA MA MA; Stella Bajorin? sister in law 28 MA MA MA single; Charles Bajorin brother in law 24 MA MA MA single ; Eugene Bajorin brother in law 25 MA MA M single ; Marie Bajorin adopted daughter 6 CT MA MA
1930 New Haven County, New Haven, CT NARA T626 Roll 276; ED 55 sh 11A, page 246: Henry W. Clover 53 NJ GERM GER Steamfitter; Freda wife 36 NJ NJ NJ
Death Records
1949-2001
JAMES
M CLOVER 19 Jun 1950
Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut 77 Years White Male Widowed
PHILIP
E CLOVER 20 Sep 1971
Waterbury, Connecticut 57 Years White Unknown Married Spouse Elizabeth
ANNA
C PIVIROTTO 31 Dec 1984
Waterbury, Connecticut 82 Years White Unknown Married to John,
Father’s Surname
Clover, born CT
MINNIE
M CLOVER died 24 Apr
1981, Waterbury, Connecticut, born CT, age 67 Years White Never Married
[Minnie Clover entry SSDI, born 30 November 1913, died April
1981, resided Waterbury.]
MARIE
C MEDEROS 4 Jul 1992
East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut , born MA, age 76 Years White
Female
Widowed, spouse Charles, father’s surname Clover.
Marriages:
Early Connecticut
Marriages: Third BookRidgefield, New Haven Second Church
page 90 Rufus Clark, resident of Hartford, and Sally Clover, resident of Danbury, 9 October 1797
Connecticut
| Clover | Spouse | Date | County | Source |
| Moses | Susannah Wightman Lamb(bn 24 Jul
1712)
d/o Valentine Wightman/ Susannah Holmes |
1753 | Groton
New London Co |
CD 102 |
Clovers or Clavers?
Early Connecticut Marriages by Frederick Bailey. Book 6 has First Church Middletown, Middlesex County, CT Marriages. This is the town that John Clover lived in, but different church. I noticed this because of the Cornelia. It is so hard to read Clover vs. Claver in that old writing. I have not seen the acutal record.
Page 106: David Atkins married Cornelia Claver 12 February 1784.
This is also in the IGI batch no. 7025912, sh 75.
Page 108: Wm Cleaver Jr, married Jemima Hunt, 25 October 1787.
Rev. Frederick W. Bailey, “Marriages from First Congregational Church, Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut,” Early Connecticut Marriages As found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, Volume 2, published 1896. I don't really know if these are Clovers.
Clover Spouse Date County Source
Abigail Gideon Hunt 16 Oct 1744 Lebanon, New London County Bailey**
Lydia John Gay 1722 Lebanon, New London County Bailey**
Mary Richard Man 1719 Lebanon, New London County Bailey**
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Is this another myth?
There is an entry in the IGI for a Philip Clover who married [no spouse given] 30 May 1754 in Hebron, Toland County, Connecticut. If you want to look for this entry, go to www.familysearch.org and do a general search for Philip Clover married 1754.
It appears that this submission was for the Philip Clover of Berkeley County, Virginia. Since this is my line, I hopped on the entry and started trying to find out more. The submitter is, I am told, deceased which is a real shame. So I looked at what records exist for Hebron and discovered that the town records were published in the Barbour Collection and that these town records are on line at
http://www.douglaslibrary.org/barbour/
I checked every cl~, kl~, culver, even Glover,
and found absolutely
nothing.
I have been searching for church records for the area. The only church having marriage records during this time period in Hebron which is listed in the FHL catalog, is the Gilead Congregaional Church. This is on microfilm no. 4460. There is a website with quite a bit of Hebron information at: http://www.rockvillemama.com/hebronct.htm There is a link to marriages prior to 1800 which come from the 2nd Congregational Church in Hebron which was organized in May 1748, at Gilead. There are no marriages on the right date. There is no Philip. There is no surname that looks like it might have been Clover or anything close.
Does anyone have any ideas on this subject?
While researching John Clover in Middlesex, Connecticut, I have also checked the following state wide indexes for Clovers with little result. I am reporting these negative searches so that researchers can check them off their Connecticut list. There is a statewide church record index from the Connecticut State Library which makes up 69 rolls of film. No Clovers were found. [FHL microfilm 2812] According to the Connecticut State Library, this index is not complete. This is obviously true since we know of one entry in Middletown.
There is also a General Index to Probate Records, 1641-1948 on 67 rolls of film at Hartford. No Clovers were found in this index. {FHL microfilm 166011] However, this is an index to testators, etc., and is not an every name index to probate records.
The Barbour Collection is a massive set of Connecticut vital records prior to 1850 collected by Lucius Barbour. It is available on 98 microfilms at many large libraries including the one at Orlando, Florida. I checked the main index and the Middletown records for Clovers and found none. However, the preface refers to church records, published originally ca. 1866. It is not clear to me that it included all of the available church records. The preface implies that some were in the history, Church records of Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, Re. Elizar Goodrich, and Rev. David Smith. The original book had no index.
The Hale Collection is a set of 360 rolls of film which is mostly cemetery records and newspaper articles which were extracted and put on cards. The films are of alphabetical sets of cards organized by type and location. I have not searched all of the Hale Collection because of its massive size and the way it is organized. However, I searched FHL microfilm 3282, Connecticut Marriages, and found one Clover entry: Ellen Clover m. C. O Cone, 5 April 1840, page 320, marriage notice, American Sentinal and Witness.
I also searched FHL microfilm 3106, Hale Collection: Cemetery Inscriptions. There were five Clover entries. This is an index and there may be further information in the original entry.
Anthony Clover 1907-1924, Waterbury Inscriptions 224, cemetery 1, page 111.
Joseph T. Clover 1909-1934, Waterbury Inscriptions 224, Cemetery 1 page 111.
Lemuel Clover died age 60, page 255, Death Notice, Connecticut Herald, 19 December 1820
Nellie M. Clover died 23 September 1865, aged 5 m 1 d, Kent Inscriptions 609, cemetery 2 page 31.
Mary Clover [no dates] Norwalk Inscriptions 414 Cemetery 1 page 32.
Connecticut Nutmegger. This is the periodical published by the Connecticut Genealogical Society. Orlando Public Library had many of the early issues. I searched Volumes 1-33 of this periodical. There is a master index to volumes 1 through 28. Volume 30 was not complete and did not have an index at Orlando.
The fact that so few Clover entries were found in these records does not mean that there are no Clover records in Connecticut. Unlike so many other areas, Connecticut is blessed with massive records going all the way back to its inception, but these large, statewide indexes are not necessarily complete. However, the scarcity of Clovers is probably due to the fact that John Clover and his family moved to New York State shortly after the 1790 baptisms.
I have been searching for church records for the area. The only church having marriage records during this time period in Hebron which is listed in the FHL catalog, is the Gilead Congregaional Church. This is on microfilm no. 4460. There is a website with quite a bit of Hebron information at: http://www.rockvillemama.com/hebronct.htm There is a link to marriages prior to 1800 which come from the 2nd Congregational Church in Hebron which was organized in May 1748, at Gilead. There are no marriages on the right date. There is no Philip. There is no surname that looks like it might have been Clover or anything close.
Does anyone have any ideas on this subject?
While researching John Clover in Middlesex, Connecticut, I have also checked the following state wide indexes for Clovers with little result. I am reporting these negative searches so that researchers can check them off their Connecticut list. There is a statewide church record index from the Connecticut State Library which makes up 69 rolls of film. No Clovers were found. [FHL microfilm 2812] According to the Connecticut State Library, this index is not complete. This is obviously true since we know of one entry in Middletown.
There is also a General Index to Probate Records, 1641-1948 on 67 rolls of film at Hartford. No Clovers were found in this index. {FHL microfilm 166011] However, this is an index to testators, etc., and is not an every name index to probate records.
The Barbour Collection is a massive set of Connecticut vital records prior to 1850 collected by Lucius Barbour. It is available on 98 microfilms at many large libraries including the one at Orlando, Florida. I checked the main index and the Middletown records for Clovers and found none. However, the preface refers to church records, published originally ca. 1866. It is not clear to me that it included all of the available church records. The preface implies that some were in the history, Church records of Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, Re. Elizar Goodrich, and Rev. David Smith. The original book had no index.
The Hale Collection is a set of 360 rolls of film which is mostly cemetery records and newspaper articles which were extracted and put on cards. The films are of alphabetical sets of cards organized by type and location. I have not searched all of the Hale Collection because of its massive size and the way it is organized. However, I searched FHL microfilm 3282, Connecticut Marriages, and found one Clover entry: Ellen Clover m. C. O Cone, 5 April 1840, page 320, marriage notice, American Sentinal and Witness.
I also searched FHL microfilm 3106, Hale Collection: Cemetery Inscriptions. There were five Clover entries. This is an index and there may be further information in the original entry.
Anthony Clover 1907-1924, Waterbury Inscriptions 224, cemetery 1, page 111.
Joseph T. Clover 1909-1934, Waterbury Inscriptions 224, Cemetery 1 page 111.
Lemuel Clover died age 60, page 255, Death Notice, Connecticut Herald, 19 December 1820
Nellie M. Clover died 23 September 1865, aged 5 m 1 d, Kent Inscriptions 609, cemetery 2 page 31.
Mary Clover [no dates] Norwalk Inscriptions 414 Cemetery 1 page 32.
Connecticut Nutmegger. This is the periodical published by the Connecticut Genealogical Society. Orlando Public Library had many of the early issues. I searched Volumes 1-33 of this periodical. There is a master index to volumes 1 through 28. Volume 30 was not complete and did not have an index at Orlando.
The fact that so few Clover entries were found in these records does not mean that there are no Clover records in Connecticut. Unlike so many other areas, Connecticut is blessed with massive records going all the way back to its inception, but these large, statewide indexes are not necessarily complete. However, the scarcity of Clovers is probably due to the fact that John Clover and his family moved to New York State shortly after the 1790 baptisms.
Military
Records
Draft Board File no. A1186 dated 9-12-18
Harry Clover born US, 17 June 1876, white. Resided: 32 Butler Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Medium height, stout, brown eyes, black hair, left glass eye. Nearest relative: Mrs. W. Mass, Jackson Ave, Jersey City, New Jersey. Employed as Steam Fitter for Sperry Engineering.
Miscellaneous Information
Yale is in Connecticut but I am not sure where they were.
Yale Class of 1957 December Notes
http://alumninet.yale.edu/classes/yc1957/notes1997.html
Phil and Dede Clover are thrilled to have their first grandchild, John T. Clover (YC'19), living nearby.
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