My dad and Grandpa went on a family history trip recently in Illinois and my Grandpa Gerald Thrap met Gerald Thrapp.
“We asked if he knew where the two “p” Thrap had begun. He said that his grandfather Charles Corwin Thrap lived in Blandinsville with our Great Grandfather Charles Albert Thrap. Charles Corwin got tired of getting the wrong mail, so he added another p to the end of his name to end the confusion.”
It sounds like a good way to end confusion as well as cause confusion in the future generations.
That is so funny. How ironic.
Hi Josh
I have lost your grandfather’s address. He and I have corrosponded quite a bit, and my wife, my father, and I met him and your grandmother, as well as your brother and cousin, in San Francisco some years ago. I’d appreciate it if he could email me so we could get back in contact. I enjoy my email visits with him. We first got in contact through you when you were in high school and had an email address that way, I believe.
Please tell your grandparents we can phone them for the email, but thought it would be less trouble to them to just have them email.
Thanks, Gary Thrap [gct@humboldt1.com