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Stritch History Early Origins Early History Spelling Variations Early Notables

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Stritch History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Ireland

The surname Stritch comes from the Old English for street.

Early Origins of the Stritch family

The surname Stritch was first found in Limerick (Irish: Luimneach) located in Southwestern Ireland, in the province of Munster, where between 1377 and 1650 Stritch appears more than fifty times in the lists of mayors and bailiffs.

Early History of the Stritch family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Stritch research. Another 87 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1325, 1585, 1587, 1650, 1655, 1695, 1718, 1735 and 1739 are included under the topic Early Stritch History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Stritch Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Stritch, Stritche and others.

Early Notables of the Stritch family

Notable amongst the family up to this time was

Thomas Stritch, the mayor of Limerick during the siege of 1650, who was excluded from the amnesty granted after surrender and executed...
John Stritch was a jesuit missionary in South America and the West Indies from 1650 to 1655...

Stritch migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Stritch Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Bridget Stritch and her family, who landed in Boston in 1848
William Stritch, who arrived in New York in 1854
William Stritch, aged 20, who arrived in New York in 1854 1
Bridget Stritch and her family, who landed in New York in 1860
Winnifred Stritch, who immigrated to New York in 1862
... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Stritch Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Mary Stritch, aged 22, who landed in America from Boher, Ireland, in 1908
Mary Stritch, aged 3, who settled in America from Stafford, England, in 1910
Mary Ann Stritch, aged 37, who immigrated to the United States from Stafford, England, in 1910
Samuel Stritch, aged 42, who immigrated to America, in 1910
Nora Stritch, aged 24, who landed in America from Loughglynn, Ireland, in 1915
... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Stritch migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Stritch Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

Miss. Johanna Stritch, aged 2 who was emigrating through Grosse Isle Quarantine Station, Quebec aboard the ship "Canton" departing 20th June 1847 from Bremen, Germany; the ship arrived on 7th August 1847 but she died on board 2
Mr. John Stritch, aged 1 who was emigrating through Grosse Isle Quarantine Station, Quebec aboard the ship "Lotus" departing 15th April 1847 from Liverpool, England; the ship arrived on 24th June 1847 but he died on board 2
Miss. Maria Stritch, aged 6 who was emigrating through Grosse Isle Quarantine Station, Quebec aboard the ship "Canton" departing 20th June 1847 from Bremen, Germany; the ship arrived on 7th August 1847 but she died on board 2
Miss. Mary Stritch who was emigrating through Grosse Isle Quarantine Station, Quebec aboard the ship "Lotus" departing 14th April 1847 from Liverpool, England; the ship arrived on 24th June 1847 but she died on board 2

Stritch migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 3

Stritch Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

Walter Stritch, who was sent as an bonded emigrant to Barbados in 1679

Contemporary Notables of the name Stritch (post 1700) +

Elaine Stritch (1926-2014), American Tony award winning and three-time Emmy Award winning Broadway, television, and movie actress
Samuel Alphonsius Cardinal Stritch (1887-1958), Archbishop of Chicago from 1940 to 1958

Historic Events for the Stritch family +

Arrow Air Flight 1285

Mr. Scott A Stritch (1964-1985), American Private from Annville, Pennsylvania, USA who died in the Arrow Air Flight 1285 crash 4

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Charbonneau, André, and Doris Drolet-Dubé. A Register of Deceased Persons at Sea and on Grosse Île in 1847. The Minister of Canadian Heritage, 1997. ISBN: 0-660-198/1-1997E (p. 96)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
American War Memorials - Flight 1285. (Retrieved 2016, August 24) . Retrieved from http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=317&MemID=550