Knapp Family History
Knapp Name Meaning
German: occupational name or status name from the German word
Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In
the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized
meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’.German: in
Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person.English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hillock,
Middle English knappe, Old English cnæpp, or
habitational name from any of the several minor places named with the
word, in particular Knapp in Hampshire and Knepp in Sussex.German and western Slavic: variant of Knabe.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Knapp
Name Distribution of Knapp Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Knapp families
 273 - 544  92 - 272 |
 1 - 91  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Knapp families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Knapp census records
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Knapp Family Origin
Knapp Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Knapp Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Knapp families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Knapp Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Knapp census records
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Military Service by Knapp
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