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From: Glenn Stroup <>
Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] Introduction to fellow members
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:06:58 -0400
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I'm one of the group's mysteries, as discussed in John Lochlan's
message listing the various R1B1C7 people NOT having a known Irish
connection. In my case, all the "paper" genealogy says German. The
earliest documented ancestor I have in the Stroup surname is John
Peter Stroup in Wytheville, VA (Wythe County, previous Montgomery
County). John Peter (in records sometimes as Peter, also typical of
early German settlers) married Maria Magdelena Wenrich (Wennerich) in
1788. Info on Maria's family takes them back to 1668 to Balthasar
Wennericj in Mannheim. The Wenrichs definitively were among the
Virginia German settlers whi came from Berks County, PA - so no doubt
that John Peter lived among the German community. Family tradition
also says that he and his son Peter (later moved to Abingdon, VA)
spoke mostly German. I have a picture of my Great Grandfather Samuel
Patton Stroup (son of Peter), the Civil War vet, with clothes and
beard style which resemble Amish practices.

I was certainly surprised by the Ydna test results as NW Irish,
although I knew I was part Irish through Peter Stroup's wife and my
Mother's Adams line.

My current projects regarding this line are to (1) identify John
Peter's parents, since early census records indicate that he was born
in VA before 1765, and (2) get other male descendants to take the
Ydna test. I'm having as much difficulty with the second as the
first, although I have offered to pay for the tests for any of my
distant cousins.

Thanks,

Glenn Stroup

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