Claps Family History
- Claps Name Meaning
- Origin unidentified. This name is found with Italian forenames, but is not Italian in form. It was probably imported to Italy from France, where it is a topographic name from French Les Claps, the name of a rock mass in Hérault.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,523 Historical Documents with Claps on Ancestry
- 1,958 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,335 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,296 Military Records
- 641 Immigration Records
- 2,293 Member Trees
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Number of Claps families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Claps census records
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