Revolution & Empire
Johann Baptiste Le Clair
⚭Gertrud L. A. de Weels
1796, ?
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
The Name Through History
A single continuous line, recorded under many forms as it passed through Lorraine, France, the Rhineland and Britain.
Von Mengen
before 1310
Lords of Dalheim — Rhenish-Lorrain ministerial nobility
Moingins dis li clers
c. 1310 – 1400
Lorrain vernacular byname, 1355 charter
Le Clerc · Leclerc
15th – 17th c.
French-Lorraine seigneurial line
Le Claire
late 17th – 18th c.
Transitional French spelling of the direct line
Leclaire
18th – 19th c.
Napoleonic-era French form
Le Clair · Leclair
19th c.
Rhineland branch, German civil registers
Licklär
1880 – 1970
Germanised orthography, 20th-century Rhineland
LeClaire
21st c.
Restored British form, House of Greenland-LeClaire
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.
Generation 13·Le Clair
Johann Baptiste Le Clair
1796
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
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Elsewhere in the archive
Sources & references
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- 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.
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