Two families, one story
A research-based family history of the Manor and Kloepping lines, from colonial New France and the Principality of Lippe to Michigan and Nebraska.
Manor
The French-Canadian Ménard line from Beauport and Montréal to Michigan, plus the Smith, McEvoy and Deegan lines.
25 people · Open tree →Kloepping
The German Klöpping / Kuhlmann line from Meinberg in the Principality of Lippe, plus Bracht, Pieper, Williams, Campbell and McCance.
29 people · Open tree →Wilhelm Klöpping: born a Kuhlmann, named for a farm
How Lippe’s farm-naming custom gave the immigrant of 1854 his surname.
StoryThe Name on the Land: A Narrative History of the Kloepping (Klöpping) Family
A narrative history of the Kloepping family, from Lippe to Nebraska and Wisconsin.
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