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From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: Re: Surname TROUP, Chester Co.
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 08:46:03 -0400


Just out of curiosity I checked the 1870 Census, and there is a Samuel
Troup, of Robeson, who is 70. located on pg. 296 of census film # 1308.
This couldn't be "your" Samuel, who isn't 64 till 1900...could this be a
father?

Sandra
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Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Surname TROUP, Chester Co.


>Anything is possible! At the time of the 1880 Pa. census, Samuel Troup was
>living in Hustonville, Chester County, working in a rolling mill. (Lukin's
>Steel?) By the 1900 census, Samuel, aged 64 and now spelling his name
>"Trupe", is living in Philadelphia County; he is missing from the 1910 Pa.
>census and, I assume, has died. By then his son John and grandson Charles
are
>both working for Lukin's Steel in Coatesville. My Newswanger ancestors,
from
>Parksburg, Chester County, also worked for Lukin's Steel. Where they lived
>before Chester County and where they originated from is very much a
mystery.
>My living aunts & uncles are very silent on the subject, or they just don't
>know either! I have to add that this is a very lively and interesting list!
>Thank you,
>Elizabeth
>

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