Re: QUESTION ON STROZIER NAME
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Re: QUESTION ON STROZIER NAME
Faye Simmons 9/05/01
Peter's genealogy has been proven,long ago, as being
German (Streoher, Stroher, etc)... and, this was the
name of the early arrivals at Philadelphia in the mid-
1700s....Peter's surname, most German arrivals, was entered by Port Officials as "from Wesphalia", which, of course was actually was the final debarking Port for German migrants, after which the ship went thru the port of Rotterdam, thence, on to America. Peter's German ancestral home was in the German Mosel Valley of the lower Rhineland (West bank of the Rhine before it reaches Basel)....
NOW, after Peter left the York Co, PA area and went to Rowan Co, NC, acquiring free property, he met and married Margaret Dozier there (Margaret Dozier's family came from a French family that had settled in Virginia Colony, years before) ....
NOW, the phonetics of Dozier, vis-a-vis Stroher (pronounced "Strowshure" were similar to the extent
that, somehow, Stroher was corrupted to Strozier.. AND
the suspicion IS that Margaret Dozier had everything
to do with it..... thus, ("Margaret Dozier married Peter
Strozier")... By the way, Peter's other relatives in
York County, PA, that migrated westward to the "Ohio
Country" after the end of the French and Indian wars...
.....their name was corrupted to "Strayer".... SO,many
Midwestern Strayers contact Southern Stroziers, from
time to time, on the European Roots of our Streoher,
Strozier, Strayer, history) .............
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Re: QUESTION ON STROZIER NAME
Angela Strozier 4/24/02
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William Rosser 4/26/02
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