# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-clap
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:54:21.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-clap"
name: "Margaret Clap"
slug: "margaret-clap"
description: "Margaret Clap, better known as Mother Clap, ran a coffee house from 1724 to 1726 in Field Lane, Holborn, Middlesex, a short distance from the City of London. As well as running a molly house, she was heavily involved in the ensuing legal battles after her premises were raided and shut down. While not much is known about her life, she was an important part of the gay subculture of early 18th-century England. At the time sodomy in England was a crime under the Buggery Act 1533, punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or the death penalty. Despite this, particularly in larger cities, private homosexual activity took place. To service these actions there existed locations where men from all classes could find partners or just socialize, called molly houses, \"molly\" being slang for a gay man at the time. One of the most famous of these was Clap's molly house."
tagline: "English innkeeper"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1700"
deathDate: "1726"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             0.1973684210526316
  historical:           8.564221333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A4"
    title: "מרגרט קלאפ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clap"
    title: "Margaret Clap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522599"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump