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Script above is from 1851 Weggun Church Records at Confirmation of Johann Christian Strickert.
His father Johann is listed as Arbeitsmann or workman.


The gravestone in Canada of Christian Strickert (1842-1915) son of Johann and Christiana Strickert


Letter from Siegfried Strickertof Ferdinandshorst, (East) Germany to Melvin Bockelmann (translated) dated 30 Oct. 1980:"The name Strickert showed up in the year 1620 in Kreis Preuslau Land, that is where it is mentioned for the first time. The name Strickert originated this way: there had been a "Wilddieb" (this is someone who catches wild animals in the forest with ropes) with "Strickert" (Stricken are ropes)."

GermanDefinition
Strickcord, line, rope
(noun)
strickento knit
(verb)
Strickereiknitting,
knitting business


    

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American Spelling Variations
StrickerThis is the spelling for Johann Strickert and family in the 1861 & 1871 Canadian Census. It has often been said that some Strickerts themselves dropped the final "t" to simplify the name, but this has not been found among Johann's descendents.
StrickartThis is the spelling for Johann Strickert and family in the 1881 Canadian Census. It also occurs in the 1879 Perth County Atlas for Strickert owned land.
StickertThis is the spelling in the marriage record for Carl Strickert in 1861.
ShuhertThis is the spelling for the family of Wilhelm Strickert in the 1880 census in Chicago.
StriekertThis spelling occurs in an IGI listing for Clara Striekert, daughter of Wilhelm Strickert. It also occurs already in Germany among the Strickert family of Brunne (west of Berlin). The church records list Hans Striekert as son of Andreas Strickert (1700). This is included in the family tree of Albert Hartstack of Texas http://www.alpha1.net/~awhart/
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