Daily AncestorClem.
Clem. in old records is an abbreviation of the first name Clement, or for a woman, Clementine.
Clem. is a clerk's shortening of Clement. One name chart for genealogists gives it as Clement or Clementine, so the same letters can belong to a man or a woman.
Check the sex column on census pages, or a husband's or wife's name in other records, before you decide. Indexes may keep Clem. as written.
As seen in a recordName column of the 1860 census
Clem. Haverty, 30, Blacksmith
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