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Gottfried Leclair

1842 – 1915

A nineteenth-century representative of the Leclair spelling within the family's period of German-speaking assimilation.

Family connection

Spouse. Maria E. Maßmann (1845 – 1915).

Position in the Direct Line

Generation 14 of 19 in the continuous bloodline shown on the home-page pedigree — from Mengin Le Clerc of Lorraine (c. 1355) to Brandon Noble LeClaire.

  1. Preceded by
    Johann Baptiste Le Clair
  2. This generation
    Gottfried Leclair
  3. Succeeded by
    Julius Leclair

Historical context

Gottfried Leclair (1842–1915) lived through the unification of Germany under Bismarck, the founding of the German Empire, and died on the eve of the Great War. By his generation the family was wholly integrated into German civic life — though the French origin of the name remained visible in every parish register.

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.

Canonical URL: https://leclaire.co.uk/people/gottfried-leclair