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1. Title:   Ken Strock [email protected]
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a. Note:   The place of origin stated here as Wurtemburg should be the area of WittegensteinerLand. Just notice part of the Count�us name. The following is from a marriage record:the records of the Millbach Reformed Church which states that John Henry Strack,youngest son of John Yost Strack, from Germany, County Wittgenstein, married AnnaElizabeth Hoffman, daughter of Henry Hoffman on 6 Aug 1762. There are other listsand records that Stracks�u were found in the Wittgenstein area as early as 1581 from amarriage record. Amtshausen, Bermershausen, Erndtebr�uck, Feudingen, Holzhausen,Oberndorf, R�uckershausen, Volkholz and (Bad) Laasphe are some of the villages in thisWittgenstein area that have had a Strack connection at one time. One line of Strack�usthat is not reported in the following is a line of 5 brothers that arrived in the Spring,Texas area ca 1850. They are reported as being from Feudingen. Then also there areStrack�us who stated there place of origin as the area of Alsace, France and the village ofSoufflenheim there. (Robert E. Strock Jul 2002)The following is from the into to Ronald W. Strock�us book The Descendants of JosephStrock of 1757 published in 1984. This book is out of print. Additions and corrections arebeing collected by Robert E. Strock, 242 N Church St, Dalton, OH 44618 [email protected] JOSEPH (STRACK) STROCK, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany in 1748.At this time, Wurtemburg was a part of Germany known as the LowerPalatinate District. It varied in size from time to time depending on whether ithad Catholic or Protestants as the rules, and at times was torn by strife betweenthe Rulers and the people of the District. This strife caused many of the peopleto flee for the safety of their lives around 1750. A dispute arose between twobrothers named Strack and their Over- Lord, one Imperial Lord and Count ofSayn, Hohenstein and Wittegenstein, Lord of Hamburg, Vallender, Clottenbergand Lohra, also ducal Wurtemberger Knight of the Great Order of the Chase.(His family name was John Ludig the Family name is never used in Giving theTitles, but some how it got into some of the old records, and by having theFamily name explains some of the action taken by Joseph Strock of 1757 towardtwo of his daughters). In this dispute, the two brothers lost their lives, theirproperty and the lives of their families became forfeit, so they had to flee fromGermany in order to save their lives. (The names of these two men has not cometo light). The Families split up and went in two directions, one group 2 consisting of four brothers of one family fled to the town of Holstein, Canton ofBasel in Switzerland, they were Heinrich, later known as Henry Strock of 1753and another of the older brothers named Johan with two of the youngerbrothers, Samuel and Anthony. In 1753 they made their way to Rotterdam, andsailed from there on the Ship Edinburgh, commanded by Capt. James Russell,Heinrich and Johan being over the age of Sixteen had to take the Oath ofAllegiance to the English Crown, this they did at Portsmouth, England, Samueland Anthony being under sixteen years of age did not have to take the Oath.This party of four brothers landed at Philadelphia, Pa. on September 14, 1753.All four of them settled in Pennsylvania. All four married, and with theexception of Samuel had a family. It is not known at this time how manychildren Johan had or their names; Anthony had three sons, the family of oneson, Henry is known and that of the other two, Joseph and David are notknown, having been lost track of by brother Henry's family. However, it isknown that both Joseph and David moved to the vicinity of Carlisle,Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania


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