Revolution & Empire
Johann Baptiste Le Clair
1796 – ?
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
Family connection
Spouse. Gertrud L. A. de Weels.
Position in the Direct Line
Generation 13 of 19 in the continuous bloodline shown on the home-page pedigree — from Mengin Le Clerc of Lorraine (c. 1355) to Brandon Noble LeClaire.
- Preceded by
'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire - This generation
Johann Baptiste Le Clair - Succeeded by
Gottfried Leclair
Historical context
Johann Baptiste Le Clair, born in 1796, was raised in the German-speaking territories of the Rhine. With his generation parish registers begin to record the family name in its Germanised forms — Le Clair, Leclair, and ultimately Licklär.
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.
Related people
Related families
Elsewhere 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.
- Archives Nationales (France) ↗
French National Archives — sovereign and noble records of the Ancien Régime and after.
- Geneanet ↗
Genealogy platform; use only entries that themselves cite primary records.
- Wikimedia Commons ↗
Open-licensed historical images, maps and document scans.
- BnF — Armorial général de France (d'Hozier) ↗
Charles d'Hozier's Armorial général de France (1696), digitised by the BnF.
- Wikimedia Commons — Heraldry of France ↗
Open-licensed reproductions of French armorial bearings.
Canonical URL: https://leclaire.co.uk/people/johann-baptiste-le-clair