Thomas Klap (1563 - 1624)

Origins

 

Thomas Klap was born in 1563 at Istha, Hessen, Germany.

Clapp Family Association notes say the earliest reference to the Clap family in this area of Hesse dates to a tax for the local monastary in 1510 (ne).

Marriage - Elizabeth

Thomas Klap married Elizabeth ~1588 in Istha, Hessen, Germany. 1 2 Elizabeth was born ~1580. [She would have been only 8 when married?]

Children with Elizabeth

  Geise/Geise/Geisa b. ~1600
  Ludwig b. 1613

Passings

Thomas Klap died on November 25, 1624. He too lived his entire live in Istha, Germany.

Elizabeth Klap died on October 16, 1624 at Istha, where she lived her entire life.

References

  1 dmadbass@yahoo.com. Information on Rootsweb.
  2 Nancy Pope (oregongirl@earthlink.net).
  3 The George Valentine Clapp Web site jimndlou@swbell.net
  4 Clapp Family Genealogy Forum
  5
Clapp Newsletters 1994 - 1999 - Authored by Dr. Keller [20 volumes on one 144-page 26.5K Acrobat pdf file]
My apologies to the good Dr. Keller for not obtaining his and other's permissions but after receiving no word in over 10 years, I have decided to share this. I believe he would like that.
[good as of Oct. 6, 1998] Dr. Robert Keller 6175 Blain Place, La Mesa, CA 91942 (619) 667-3796
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A lady in Henderson found in Gilford county, NC has a book in German, getting it translated traced back to Germany. Family originally from Norway. Osgod Clappa.

CLAPHAM.
Etymology.
This parish in all probability received its appellation from one of its proprietors. Osgod Clappa was the name of the Danish lord, at whose daughter's marriage-feast, in Lambeth, Hardicanute died (fn. 1) . In Doomsday book, however, this place is called Clopeham.

[Source: 'Clapham', The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey (1792), pp. 159-169. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45376 Date accessed: 19 February 2009.]

See also: http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/clapton-family-crest.htm