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The kreischer Surname

kreischer Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name for someone from a place called Kreische, Kreischa, or Kreischau in Saxony.
  2. nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German krischen ‘to shriek or cry’ or a metonymic occupational name for a torturer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kreischen ‘to make someone shriek (in pain)’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kreischer name in History

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Distribution of kreischer Families in the US in 1920
Number of kreischer families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 20 - Messages: 78
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Balthasar KREISCHER of Staten Island, New York Jacob Ruppert 20
Kreischer History Will Raup 4
Henry Honabach TinaPhillips44 0
Kreischer COLIN KREISCHER 2
Kreischer COLIN KREISCHER 1
KREISCHER, WILFRED mspurlock1975 0
Kreischer Family - Central PA Marcy_Kreischer 2
Dorothy Kreischer obituary puppup 0
KREISCHER of 19th Century Staten Island and Brooklyn (NY) Jacob Ruppert 2
John O Kreischer obituary dactackm 0
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