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Srackengast/Burgess/Griffin families in MD, VA, OH and MI

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Re: Srackengast/Burgess/Griffin families in MD, VA, OH and MI

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 4:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 22 Mar 2011 5:03PM GMT
Surnames: Srackengast
Terri,
At the top of the 1850 Census report page, it says Gasper Township, Preble County Ohio. There's a 123 or maybe 125 penned in above the name of the twp, Gasper....can only see the bottom half of the last number. Don't know if that refers to a page number or what. But the mystery Srackengast family begins on line 28. George is right above his family, starting on line 18. I went back to the place where I thought I had found the info and saved the image of the Census page. I have it on my hard drive as a jpg file. But now I can't open the page at the website... it says "unavailable" online.... Well, I got it online someplace and I thought it was there....at the familysearch.org site, but now there's just the summary of the info from the page, not the actual page.
It also says that this Srackengast and George were wagon makers by trade. And wife of "mystery" Srackengast Elizabeth was from Maryland and all their kids were born in OH. It also states that Mary, David, Ann and Lurton attended school. Lewis was only 2 yrs old at the time... last on this list.
George was the one who moved his family to MI and I was most able to find "stuff" on him. I was born in MI and I've got loads of family living there still. I'm taking the results of my findings back there this summer and hope to show my relatives there what I've learned in the past few months. Don't know who amongst them has any family records of any kind... bibles or such. All the "old folks" but one are dead and gone and the "one" that remains has Altzheimers. My next oldest cousin Barbara may have some stuff. Her mom is the one with Altzheimers. I know they cleared out and sold her home already and Barbara lives next door, so she probably wound up with all the "stuff."
Oh, I also found Srackengasts in Ross County OH which is south central OH.... Preble is in the SW part... just a bit above Cincinnatti and west of Dayton. Do you know whether these Ross County Srackengasts are related to the Preble County Scrackengasts? On census reports, they state that they (older ones at least) were born in PA. There are also PA Srackengasts in WV that say they are born in PA, but not in that part of WV that used to be Botetourt County... other parts. And there are a smattering of Srackengasts in NY and NJ, too....some right in downtown Manhattan. Any relation, do you think??
BTW, do you happen to know what Srackengast means??? Is it Dutch or German? I do know a bit of German and Gast means "guest". There is a word "schrecken" which means to scare or frighten. Do you suppose that Srackengast means "scary guest" or maybe like a "ghost" or poltergeist?? The only word I know for "ghost" is "Geist"... as in Heilige Geist.... Holy Ghost. Oh, just found out that "schrecken" also means "to terrorize"... Good grief!!
Tess
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