... continuing to gather information to support my theory of the original pronunciation of the surname.
Again I find that the early settler's pronunciation followed "Straub", but with a "P" at the end.
In the 1870 Federal Census the enumerator recorded the Levi L Stroup family surname as "STROPP" (with a short "o") ... consistent with the widely-accepted fact that the enumerator often "recorded it as he heard it".
I believe that the current-day "Struup" and "Strawp" pronunications came about in the early 1900s.
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