This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XY.2ADE/3.223.231 Message Board Post: Hello, Here you have an answer of the 'Cnockaert clan'. While I was looking on the internet for my father who is interested in the genealogy of our name Cnockaert, I found your question. CNOCKAERT is a name that occurs in our regions and almost only in this region : Flanders in Belgiumn, not far from Ypres. We have found a small number of people with the same name in France, but the major part of the Cnockaerts is living in Flanders. It must be hard to pronounce the name in English. We have found an ancestor in England, Colchester (sometime around 1565). In our family, we are : Guy, Anne-Catherine, Françoise and Christian Cnockaert. Greetings from Flanders. The Cnockaerts