| Sources (n.b., Perry Co. was formed in 1820 from Cumberland
Co.; Madison Twp. was formed in 1836 from Toboyne Twp.; Jackson Twp. was
formed in 1844 from Toboyne Twp.):
1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
AF - Ancestral File (online at FamilySearch.org).
John Peter STROUP
Birth: 1768, , Berks, Pennsylvania
Death: 01 Apr 1831, Madison Twp, Perry,
Pennsylvania
Burial: Union Cem, Blain, Perry, Pennsylvania
Marriage: About 1795, Kutztown, Greenwich
Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania
Spouse: Rosanna KOSER
Birth: 19 Nov 1779, Greenwich, Berks, Pennsylvania
Death: 27 Mar 1864, Blain, Perry, Pennsylvania
Burial: Union Cem, Blain, Perry, Pennsylvania
Source: patron submission |
Peter STRAUB
Born: 1778/1779, Pennsylvania
Died: 1 Apr 1830, Perry, Pennsylvania
Buried: Blain Union Cem., Perry, Pennsylvania
Married: Abt 1807, Berks, Pennsylvania
Wife: Rosannah (Rosina) KOSER
Born: 15 Jun 1779, Berks, Pennsylvania
Christened: 1779, Bethel Zion, Greenwich, Berks, Pennsylvnia
Died: 27 Mar 1864, Blain, Pennsylvania
Buried: Zion Luth Ch Yd, Blain, Perry, Pennsylvania
Father: Johannes KOSIER; Mother: Gertraunt WALBERT
Child: Sarah STRAUB; Born: 8 Oct 1816, Tyrone, Cumberland, Pennsylvania
Source: patron submission |
| I have found no primary record where our subject is called John or
John Peter; I have found him only as Peter. It may be that Kutztown
existed in 1795, though Kutztown Borough was not incorporated until 1815,
but it is in Maxatawny Twp., not Greenwich Twp. So… which is correct,
the town or the township? |
| 2. Harry W. Lenig, translater. Register of Rev. Johann
Wilheim Heim. Filed with the Historical Society of the Evangelical
and Reformed Church, Lancaster, PA (courtesy of Rita Rogers Nowack): |
| Child: Maria, born 2 May 1820. Parents Daniel Jacobs
& Frau Susanna (born Straub). Sponsors - Peter Straub
(Sr) & Frau Rosina (Koser), by Rev Johann Wilhein Heim, Blain,
Jackson Twp., Perry Co., PA. |
| Translator's additions in parenthesis. Harry Lenig was past President
of the Perry County Historical Society; the Perry County is Library named
after him. He was a life long geneologist. His great Aunt Carolina
Lenig married John Luther Stroup, s/o George M. |
| This is the only record I've found, so far, showing our subject as
STRAUB, rather than STROUP. It is certainly no accident that the
only German record found is STRAUB, while all the English records are STROUP
or STRAUP. |
3. 1790 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):
not found. Peter was old enough to be married by 1790, but Rosanna
wasn't. The fact that Peter does not show up as head-of-household
suggests that he was either single or widowed at this point, though he
could have been married; either way, he is obviously living with a family
where someone else is head-of-household.
4. 1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):
can't find, but it is not uncommon for a young married couple (or widower)
to be living with kin.
5. 1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#6 of 11; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1810 |
PA |
Cumberland [now Perry] Co. |
Tyrone Twp. |
Roll 48 |
p. 111 |
Ln. 23 |
Peter Stroup |
31010-11010-0 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 3 males |
9 or under |
1800-1810 |
= George (b. 1809)
= Jacob (b. 1807)
= William |
| 1 male |
10-15 |
1794-1800 |
= John |
| 1 male |
26-44 |
1765-1784 |
= Peter |
| 1 female |
9 or under |
1800-1810 |
= Mary (b. 1805) |
| 1 female |
10-15 |
1794-1800 |
= Susan (b. 1795/6) |
| 1 female |
26-44 |
1765-1784 |
= Rosanna (bap. 1779) |
Listed one line above Edward DELONG, who is age 16-25 (b. 1784-94) and
living with a woman over age 45 (b. bef. 1765).
6. 1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#6 of 7 — not indexed; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1820 |
PA |
Perry Co. |
Toboyne [now Madison] Twp. |
Roll M33_104 |
p. 8/330 |
Ln. 19 |
Stroup Peter |
311101-21001-010 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 3 males |
9 or under |
1810-1820 |
= Peter Jr. (b. 1819)
= Son A
= George (b. 1809) |
| 1 male |
10-15 |
1804-1810 |
= Jacob (b. 1807) |
| 1 male |
16-18 |
1801-1804 |
= William |
| 1 male |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1775 |
= Peter |
| 2 females |
9 or under |
1810-1820 |
= Sarah (b. 1816)
= Elizabeth (b. 1810-15) |
| 1 female |
10-15 |
1804-1810 |
= Mary (b. 1805) |
| 1 female |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1775 |
= Rosanna (bap. 1779) |
| 1 |
person engaged in manufacture |
| *In the 1820 Census, the third column is
age class 16-18 and the fourth column is age class 16-25, which means any
individual in column three is duplicated in column four. So,
for an accurate representation of the household, the number in column three
should be subtracted from the number in column four. |
The columns following the first 11 were non-standard in Perry County in
1820; those columns were:
| |
12. Number of persons engaged in Agriculture.
13. Number of persons engaged in Manufactures.
14. Foreigners not naturalized. |
This record is not indexed at Ancestry.com, along with many others in Toboyne
Township (Ancestry.com alerted to error 11/05).
Thank you to Rita Rogers Nowack for alerting me that this Peter STROUP
is our subject.
7. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#15 of 28 — indexed "Rsanah Stran Jr"; extracted
by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1830 |
PA |
Perry Co. |
Toboyne [now Madison] Twp. |
Roll 156 |
p. 252 |
Ln. 16 |
Rosanah Straup |
010 120 - 111 100 010 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
5-9 |
1820-1825 |
= Peter Jr. (b. 1819) |
| 1 male |
15-19 |
1810-1815 |
= Son A |
| 2 males |
20-29 |
1800-1810 |
= George (b. 1809)
= Jacob (b. 1807) |
| 1 female |
4 or under |
1825-1830 |
= Rosanna Jane (b. 1825) |
| 1 female |
5-9 |
1820-1825 |
= Margaret (b. 1822) |
| 1 female |
10-14 |
1815-1820 |
= Sarah (b. 1816) |
| 1 female |
15-19 |
1810-1815 |
= Elizabeth |
| 1 female |
50-59 |
1770-1780 |
= Rosanna (bap. 1779) |
Thank you to Rita Rogers Nowack, who brought this (badly mis-indexed!)
record to my attention. Peter Jr. is tallied in the wrong age class
here and in 1840, so I wonder if we have the correct birthyear for
him.
8. 1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com;
Image #9-10 of 14; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1840 |
PA |
Perry Co. |
Madison Twp. |
pp. 328B-329A |
Ln. |
George Stroup |
001 210 000 - 002 010 001 |
0400000 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
10-14 |
1825-1830 |
= ? |
| 2 males |
15-19 |
1820-1825 |
= ?
= Peter Jr. (b. 1819) |
| 1 male |
20-29 |
1810-1820 |
= George (b. 1809) |
| 2 females |
10-14 |
1825-1830 |
= Rosanna Jane (b. 1825)
= Margaret (b. 1822) |
| 1 female |
20-29 |
1810-1820 |
= Sarah (b. 1816) |
| 1 female |
60-69 |
1770-1780 |
= Rosanna (bap. 1779) |
| 4 |
persons engaged in agriculture |
Son, George, as yet unmarried, is the eldest male in the household, so
he is the head. Son Peter is not married yet, either, so he should
be at home, too. I can't figure who the younger males are because
they weren't in the household in 1830.
9. 1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#12 of 22 — Rosanna was missed in the index): Jackson Twp., Perry
Co., PA, p. 343A, 87/89, enumerated 14 Sep 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale
Matthiesen):¤•
| Rosanna Stroup |
70 |
F |
|
|
Berks County |
| Margaret " |
25 |
F |
|
|
Perry County |
| Jane " |
23 |
F |
|
|
" |
All three women appear to have shaved a few years off their age.
Listed next to son, George
STROUP.
10. 1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #178
of 593): Plain P.O., Jackson Twp., Perry Co., PA, p. 508, 333/330,
PN 46, enumerated ___, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted
by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| Rosannah Stroup |
82 |
F |
|
|
|
200 |
Pa |
| Margaret " |
38 |
F |
|
|
|
|
" |
Listed next to son, George
STROUP.
11a. Wills: Abstracts 1803-1809: Will Book G: Cumberland Co,
PA (online in the USGenWeb Archives; contributed by Thera Schwenk-Hammond):
MC ALLISTER, JOHN, Tyrone.
January 12, 1808. February 8, 1808.
Sons John and Hugh.
Daus. Betty Gormly and Sarah McAllister.
Grandchildren the children of dau. Betsy intermarried with Abraham
Gormly and the children of sons Hugh.
Exs: Son Hugh McAllister, David Roble and John McClure, all
of Tyrone
Township.
Wit: Peter Stroup, William Bitner, Wilson McClure.
G. 289-290. |
11b. Wills: Abstracts 1809-1817: Will Book H: Cumberland Co,
PA (online in the USGenWeb Archives; contributed by Thera Schwenk-Hammond):
KOSER, JOHN, Tyrone.
August 31, 1813. October 27, 1813.
Wife Gertrout.
Eldest son George.
Seven other children, viz., Rosina Stroup, Cadarina Wining,
Barbara Schop, Gertrout Kremer, Elizabeth Koser, Christina Koser and Jonathan
Koser.
Exs: Isaiah Coil (Coyle), Esq. and John Hipple.
Wit: George Waggoner, Henry Wingert, Isaiah Coil. H. 219-220. |
12. Excerpt of family information written by Samuel L.
STROUP, grandson of our subjects (courtesy of Rita Rogers Nowack):
| Grandmother continued the farming for some years until the children
began leaving home to work for themselves. There were eleven children,
5 boys and 6 girls, namely, William who left home. Several
years after leaving they heard from him, but afterwards they lost track
of him, and his whereabouts are unknown. Jacob went to Illinois
and died there. John went to Brooklyn, NY and died there.
George
and Peter remained in Perry County and died there.
Susan
married William Jacobs, went to Ohio and died there. Mary
married Benjamin Hollenbaugh, went to Ohio and died there. Sallie
married David Disinger, went to Ohio and died there. Jane
married Henry Briner, went to Illinois and is still living.
Grandmother Stroup remained in Perry County and her sons
George
and
Peter looked after her wants until her death, which occurred
March 27, 1864, at the ripe age of eighty-four years, four months, and
eight days. She was buried in Union Cemetery, Blain, Perry County,
Pa., not beside her husband, as there was no room there, but lays beside
her son George who died later. |
| Samuel must have been writting before Rosanna
Jane (STROUP) BRINER died in 1911. He fails to mention Elizabeth
or Margaret, though they must be two of the six daughters, so presumably
Elizabeth and Margaret are deceased. But did he not know of Henry?
The early censuses support that our subjects did, indeed, have six sons,
not five. |
| 13. Robert L. Stroup. 1993. One Consanguineous
Pennsylvania Straub Family. MS, Hazen, ND. 564 pp.
(available on LDS microfilm or fische). The "consanguineous family"
is that of our subject. I have not seen the entire publication, but
Stephen Stroup has kindly sent me scans of some key pages, one of which
is the Pedigree Chart showing the ancestry of Peter. The "Andreas
STRAUB & Catherina" on the chart have been presumed to be Andreas
STRAUB & Catharina DELONG, but could they be Andreas
STRAUB & Anna Catharina SPRINGER? As far as I can tell, the
book is undocumented, so we don't know on what basis connections were made
(or the source of Peter's birthyear, which is critical if correct).
What we do know is that DNA proves our subject is not descended from
Johann
Pieter STRAUB & Maria Barbara.
|
13. Email from Rita Rogers Nowack, including:
| [By the 1830 census,] John had already left home. A very
short history written in 1910, from Samuel L. Stroup, a grandson of Peter
and Rosina, states John went to New York and died there. William
had also already left home - possibly to Canada. The family did hear
from him once but not after. |
14. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com). |
