Le Claire

Contemporary

Personal mark of Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai

Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai

⚭Monika Ute Licklär

Husband of Monika Ute Licklär and father of Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble. Through Anthony the Tai name enters the modern House, carried forward in his daughter's surname and in his grandson Brandon Noble LeClaire.

The Name Through History

A single continuous line, recorded under many forms as it passed through Lorraine, France, the Rhineland and Britain.

  1. Von Mengen

    before 1310

    Lords of Dalheim — Rhenish-Lorrain ministerial nobility

  2. Moingins dis li clers

    c. 1310 – 1400

    Lorrain vernacular byname, 1355 charter

  3. Le Clerc · Leclerc

    15th – 17th c.

    French-Lorraine seigneurial line

  4. Le Claire

    late 17th – 18th c.

    Transitional French spelling of the direct line

  5. Leclaire

    18th – 19th c.

    Napoleonic-era French form

  6. Le Clair · Leclair

    19th c.

    Rhineland branch, German civil registers

  7. Licklär

    1880 – 1970

    Germanised orthography, 20th-century Rhineland

  8. LeClaire

    21st c.

    Restored British form, House of Greenland-LeClaire

Family connection

Spouse. Monika Ute Licklär.

Position in the Direct Line

Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai is a collateral figure of the wider House and is not part of the continuous bloodline shown on the home-page pedigree. Their branch descends from Monika Ute Licklär in the direct line.

Historical context

Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai married Monika Ute Licklär and is the father of Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble, and thereby maternal grandfather of Brandon Noble LeClaire. He is not himself of the LeClaire bloodline, but the Tai surname enters the modern House through him and is preserved in the double-barrelled Tai-Noble of his daughter.

He bore a personal anchored character, a stylised Chinese mark used as a private device or seal, shown here as recorded in the family papers.

Known records & evidence

Biographical, parish, notarial, seigneurial and military records of Lorraine, Alsace and the Rhineland, preserved in the LeClaire Family Historical Archive.

Related entities

Other documented people, family branches, places and armorial records connected to this entry in the archive.

Sources & references

Authoritative archives, libraries and reference collections that hold — or can be used to verify, records of this entity. External sources are cited only where they genuinely support the historical record; not every claim on this page is yet matched to a digitised primary source.

  • Parish, notarial, seigneurial and military records of Lorraine, Alsace and the Rhineland preserved in the LeClaire Family Historical Archive.

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