The origins of this Cress family are not clear. No written records exist to show where they might have lived in Europe, or when the first ancestors came to America.

In the early 1700s, it is known that a group of Mennonites, to escape the persecutions in mainland Europe, did leave to live in Limerick County, Ireland. There is some indication that there was a Cress family amongst them.

Ezra Eby's book "A Biographical History of Waterloo Township" 1895/96 shows the earliest recorded Cress relative to be a Simon Cress, born in Pennsylvania about the year 1764. This would indicate that Simon's parents were the first generation to reside in America.

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