Person:Peter Strauch (4)

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Peter Strauch
b.Abt 1797 Hessen, Germany
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Name Peter Strauch
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1797 Hessen, Germany
Marriage Abt 1830 Neu-Isenberg, Hessen, Germanyto Katherine Durand
Death? 1840 Neu-Isenburg, Hessen, Germany

He was discharged from the Battalion Wing Company, Bodyguard Regiment of the Grand Duke of Hessen, 1 April 1825, at the age of 28. He was supposed to have been the tallest man in the Duke's army and to have attained the highest rank open to non-nobility. Stephen P. Hill has a copy (1996) of the discharge certificate.

He was a tailor. I have no information about the ancestors of Peter Strauch, but the name Strauch, meaning "Bush" in English, is a common one in Germany.