Alfred Averill Knapp

Nicholas Knapp (d.1670) emigrated in 1630 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, finally settling in Stamford and Fairfield, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Capt. John Gorham, the son of Ralph Gorham and Margaret Stephenson, was baptized in 1620 in Bennefield, Northamptonshire, England. He came to Plymouth in 1639. He married 1643 Desire Howland. They lived in Plymouth until 1646 when they moved to Marshfield, Mass. Later in 1652 they made their home at Yarmouth. John Gorham died 1675 in Swanson, Mass. The very early history of the Gorham family has been traced to France in the 1100s.

Ancestral lines of Mary Lenore Knapp (1895-1974). She was born in Brimfield, Illinois, the daughter of Dr. Alfred A. Knapp and Mary L. McCune Knapp. Alfred A. Knapp, M.D., was born in 1868 at Danbury, Connecticut, the son of Elnathan and Sarah A. Quinby Knapp. He married Mary Luella McCune, daughter of James A. and Jessie M. Babb McCune, at Henry, Illinois, in 1894. Ancestors include Nicholas Knapp (d. 1670, of Stamford, Connecticut); William Quinby...

George Knapp (con of George Knapp) married Mary Alice Costello of Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1794 (when their oldest son, Oliver, was 21 years of age).