This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stroup, Straup, Straub Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0IQBAEB/182.202.1.2 Message Board Post: How weird!! I have never heard of another one either! I was named after a brother of my mother....Francis Skidmore who had a son also named after him! So...I have a first cousin named Francis and we both have hated the name! My Grandfather's name was Frederick and I am pretty sure that his father's name was Peter Straub....somewhere, somehow, the name was misspelled either in the Census or at a tiem of enlistment in the Army...??? If you ever run into a logical expanation, please keep me in mind, and thank you for the enquiry!!