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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Clare
Name Distribution of Clare Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Clare families
 740 - 1,478  247 - 739 |
 1 - 246  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Clare families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Clare census records
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Clare Family Origin
Clare Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Clare Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Clare Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Clare census records
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Military Service by Clare
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