Clare Family History
- Clare Name Meaning
- Irish and English: habitational name from Clare in Suffolk (probably named with a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright’, ‘gentle’, or ‘warm’). One of the first Normans in Ireland (1170–72) was Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, better known as ‘Strongbow’, who took his surname from his estate in Suffolk. English: habitational name from Clare in Oxfordshire, named with Old English cl?g ‘clay’ + ora ‘slope’. English: from the Middle English, Old French female personal name Cla(i)re (Latin Clara, from clarus ‘famous’), which achieved some popularity, greater on the Continent than in England, through the fame of St. Clare of Assisi. See also Sinclair. English: occupational name for a worker in clay, for example someone expert in building in wattle and daub, from Middle English clayere, an agent derivative of Old English cl?g ‘clay’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,609,241 Historical Documents with Clare on Ancestry
- 244,392 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 141,502 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,809 Military Records
- 17,796 Immigration Records
- 1,189,742 Member Trees
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Number of Clare families
 740 - 1,478  247 - 739 |
 1 - 246  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Clare families
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28 - 53 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Clare census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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