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Variations on the name are: Schreck, Schreckengast, Schreckengost, and Schreckenghost. Each of these names appear to originate with a Lutheran, or Catholic family that migrated to American (Pennsylvania) in the decades immediately prior to the Revolutionary War. Another family, or branch of the same family -- who were apparently Jews from the Alsace-Lorraine region -- arrived in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Today, descendants of sons and daughters of these lines comprise approximately 1 percent of the American population. |
Variations on the name are: Schreck, Schreckengast, Schreckengost, and Schreckenghost. Each of these names appear to originate with a Lutheran, or Catholic family that migrated to American (Pennsylvania) in the decades immediately prior to the Revolutionary War. Another family, or branch of the same family -- who were apparently Jews from the Alsace-Lorraine region -- arrived in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Today, descendants of sons and daughters of these lines comprise approximately 1 percent of the American population. |
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In 2004, one member of the family was yDNA (male DNA) tested. The results indicated a relatively rare, and apparently ancient, marker set (haplotype) within the R1a1 Haplogroup. It is hoped that, eventually, other members of the family will be tested. |
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Shreknangst
A compound term and variation of a name which first appeared during the latter sixteenth-century plague period.
Shrek: (as in the fictional green ogre character) means fear, or horror, and as Das Schreck -- The Horror -- was a World War II reference for the aerial attack on England.
Angst: a sense of fear or dread.
Together they represent a fear of fear and lent itself to the descriptive surname adopted by refugees during the Thirty Years War.
Variations on the name are: Schreck, Schreckengast, Schreckengost, and Schreckenghost. Each of these names appear to originate with a Lutheran, or Catholic family that migrated to American (Pennsylvania) in the decades immediately prior to the Revolutionary War. Another family, or branch of the same family -- who were apparently Jews from the Alsace-Lorraine region -- arrived in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Today, descendants of sons and daughters of these lines comprise approximately 1 percent of the American population.
In 2004, one member of the family was yDNA (male DNA) tested. The results indicated a relatively rare, and apparently ancient, marker set (haplotype) within the R1a1 Haplogroup. It is hoped that, eventually, other members of the family will be tested.