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Author: crashq
Surnames: Clapp Alexander Crain
Classification: queries
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Message Board Post:
I have tenuously connected one of my ancestors, Catherine Clapp (1830-1909) to the Clapp family of Guilford, North Carolina. She was born in Edgar County, Illinois and was supposedly the daughter of John George Clapp, who was born in Guilford County, and an Elizabeth (who was born in Illinois). I have seen various names for Elizabeth including Elizabeth White and Elizabeth Biddlecum. John George was known to have at least three wives so it gets a bit confusing in regard to his children born well before 1850 (when family member's names were included on the census).
John George's father was supposedly John Philip Clapp who lived in Pennsylvania and then North Carolina. His grandfather was supposedly George Valentine Clapp,who immigrated from Weisenheim-Berg, Germany, near the Rhein River, to the America in the early 1700s.
I know that Catherine Clapp was connected to John George because her married name (Catherine Alexander), her husband's name (Richard Harvey Alexander) and the names or her relatives (Crains) appear on the sale of land that was owned by John George. There were several John George Clapps in the Edgar County, Illinois area in the mid 1850's, so I am trying to sort them out and find the names of his wives, as well as definitively connect them to the "Old Brick Church" Clapps if they are from the same family.
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