This family settled in England from the Low Countries at the time of the Duke of Alva's persecution of the Protestants. In 1586 Thomas Cloerterbooke was sheriff of Gloucester, and from that county the existing gentry families of Clutterbuckspring (Lower's Patronymica Britannica).

1585. Thomas Ciutterbooke and Joanna Allen: Marriage Lic. (London).

Jasper Cluterbuck, alderman of Gloucester, 1659: Atkyns' History Gloucestershire.

1654. Married —Joseph Clutterbuck and Ann Gulliford: St. Mary Aldermary.

(Teutonic) This name is said to be a 16th cent. importation from the Low Countries, in which case the second element may represent the Dutch beek, ‘a brook,’ and the first the Dutch klateren, 'to clatter.’ If, however, not local the name may be a nickname for a roysterer or spark, the second element then being the Dut, bok, ‘a buck.’ Judging by the form Clutterbooke, found in A.D. 1585, the latter is prob. the true etymology.

The family settled in England from the Low Countries, at the time of the Duke of Alva's persecution of the Protestants. In 1586 Thomas Cloerterbooke was sheriff of Gloucester, and from that co. the existing gentry families of C. spring.

This very Dutch-sounding name makes fair sense in that language, as Cloet-ter-bogt would mean “puntpole at the bend”; but there is at present no evidence to support a Dutch origin, and it is said that Cowbach in Worcestershire was once called Clatterbach, which is near enough

A Flemish refugee name; a Cloerterbooke was Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1586.

Lower says that the family of Clutterbuck settled in England from the Low Countries at the time of the Duke of Alva's persecution of the Protestants during the reign of Elizabeth. However this may be, there was a Thomas Cloerterbooke, sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1586 (R. or L.); and two Gloucestershire gentlemen of the name of Clutterbuck, resident at Kingstanley and Alkerton, contributed £25 apiece towards the defence of their country at the time of the expected Spanish invasion in 1588. We go yet further back and find a Clowterbuck mayor of Gloucester city in 1545 (R.); whilst Clutterbuck was the name of the incumbent of Stanton in 1571 (A.). In truth the Clutterbucks have been a distinguished Gloucestershire family for three centuries and more; Stroud, Stanley, Frampton, and Cirencester having been their principal homes (R.). There was a mayor of Gloucester of this name in 1646 (R.), and there was a mayor of Bristol named Stephen Clutterbuck in 1739 (Bar.). The Clutterbucks of Punchknoll, Dorset, during last century, were said to hail originally from Devonshire, their ancestor having been a sea officer in the reign of William III. (Hutchins' "Dorset"). In Gloucestershire the name is still represented in Gloucester and Stroud.

The Clutterbucks of this county during last century hailed from Hinton, Gloucestershire, in the previous century (Cus.). To the Clutterbucks of Herts belonged the antiquary who wrote the history of the county quoted in this book.