Hello all,
Was hoping to connect with some U.K. Yapps to do a little detective work. I'm a Yapp based in Los Angeles, USA, and so far I've only been able to trace my Yapp tree to the early 1700s, when my branch of the Yapp family hopped the pond from England (Shopshire? Herefordshire? Gloucestershire?). I have DNA links back to that point (via a distant cousin also living in the U.S.), but nothing connecting across the Atlantic.
So my question to you is whether any of you have heard of certain Yapp family members immigrating to the U.S. between 1710 and 1750? My immigrating ancestor was supposedly named Thomas Yapp, born around 1711; he arrived in Cumberland, Deerfield, New Jersey, USA, sometime after he was born, and from there, he married and started a family. (My branch later moved to New York and then Bourbon County, Kentucky, and then to Vermilion, Illinois, before ending up in Kansas.)