Dear Dorothy, I am interested in the Strimple family. Some of them lived in Delaware Twp, Hunterdon Co, which is why we have Strimples Mill Road. I believe the name was related to Calvin G. Strimple (b.1833, married Sarah Kuhl), son of Mahlon Strimple, who married Deborah Lake in 1828 (Deborah was the daughter of Jonas Lake and Sarah Hunt). I don't have the parents of Mahlon Strimple. Do you have any information on this family? Also I am intrigued by the name. Do you know anything about its origins? Marfy Goodspeed At 07:21 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote: >Dear Sharon and Harry, >Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Somehow I lost your message and had >to search the archives to find it again. > >I'm not familiar with the name "Gertrude Rex Strimple," but as you likely >know by now, all us Strimples are probably connected if you study long >enough. So, you can almost certainly go back to William Strimple (who >changed his name from Johann Wilhelm Strempel or Stremple when he arrived >in Philadelphia in 1752), the first Strimple to arrive in America. The >question is, where did our lines part company after that? > >I've only recently become aware of a connection to the Kitchins, through >the Hunterdon County list. My own New Jersey line traces back very shortly >after the arrival in Philadelphia. This first William's son, John, was a >corporal in the 4th New Jersey Regiment during the Revolutionary War. >(John's brothers, Aaron and Christian, also turn up in New Jersey marriage >records and such.) John's son, Samuel, who married Elizabeth Biddle in >Upper Penns Neck, New Jersey, moved with her to Ohio, then Indiana, then >Illinois. Their daughter, Rebecca Strimple, gave birth to Henry (both >deserted by father named Haskins), who was the father of my own >grandfather, Everett. Everett Henry Strimple married Golda Stitt in Kansas. > >I can provide more detail, but I wonder if this is enough information for >you to be able to tell where your branch and mine separated. In my >searches, I remember running across a Gertrude Strimple, but I don't >remember where she died. I'd be interested to know more about your >Strimples and their history. > >Dorothy > > >==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ==== >This mail list is archived at: >http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/NJHUNTER > >============================== >Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >New content added every business day. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >