Hoeck of Paisley, Renfrewshire

[jidian]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to help knock down my brick wall.  Louis Hoeck came to Britain from Germany in 1852.  In 1861 he was living in Paisley In Renfrewshire with wife Mary although I don't know where they married or her surname.  Their son Ebenezer T Hoeck (b.1866 Paisley) was married to an ancestor of mine, Caroline Spencer but I can find no details about the marriage and at the moment Caroline is a bit of a puzzle, if I knew where she was born and in what year I would have a pretty good chance of tracking her down.

Ebenezer was a painter and engraver and I believe he lived in Glasgow from 1885 - 1928.

Thank you.

[Sharon01]

Hi,

There was a Louis Hoeck born in 1829 in Paisley, Scotland. Parents were George Albert Hoeck & Charlotte Schultz.

A Louis Hoeck married Mary Thomson 05/09/1854 at High Church,Paisley,Renfrew,Scotland.

They had the following children.

Mary Dott Hoeck 20/08/1855
William Thomson Hoeck 14/06/1859
Louisa Hoeck 06/05/1861
Louis george Hoeck 30/06/1863
Ebenezer Thomson Hoeck  02/10/1865
Theodor Albert 01/04/1868

Sharon

[Sharon01]

Hi,

I know this is not what you are looking for but Louis George seems went to the US and died 15 Dec 1952 at Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States aged 89 years.

I can not find a marriage for Ebenezer & Caroline yet or find them on any census after 1881.

Sharon

[jidian]

Hi Sharon,

Thanks very much, that's amazing, I can't believe I got an answer so quickly.  The only thing now is to try and find Ebenezer and Caroline.  I did find an Ebenezer that was a landscape painter and engraver and I'm hoping that is him but I'm a bit puzzled as to why I can't find him and Caroline at all unless of course the enumarator made up his own spelling of the name!!

[Sharon01]

I can not find a marriage for them in Scotland or Ebenezer on any census after 1881. He seems to disapear.

Sharon

[MonicaL]

Good info Sharon   Strange that even though there is an OPR entry for Louis' birth in 1829, his 1881 census entry shows him as born in Prussia?

Louis Hoeck 52, Lately Teacher Of Music (Retired) b. British Subject, New Ruppin Prussia
Mary Hoeck 47
Mary Dott Hoeck 25
William Thomson Hoeck 21
Louise Hoeck 19
Louis George Hoeck 17
Ebenezer Thomson Hoeck 15
Brodie Smith Scott 28
Elizabeth Reid 25,servant

Address: 86 High St, Paisley High Church

There is this reference to Louis Hoeck from 1884 www.grianpress.com/Tannahill/TANNAHILL'S SONGS 2.htm

Monica

[Sharon01]

Monica I noticed that myself but there is a record that tied in with everything so who knows, maybe there are two of them.

Sharon

[MonicaL]

One way perhaps on checking on Ebenezer's wife's details if this entry is correct www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Hoec_ET is to check to see whether there is a death entry for him on Scotlands People. If so this would include his wife's name, if married.

Monica

Added: There is a death showing on SP in 1932 for an Ebenezer Hoeck b. 1865 which matches with the info on the link above (perhaps died late 1931 and death not registered until begining of 1932) and with the birth year that Sharon has found.

[Sharon01]

Ok have found him in 1891 mistranscribed as Hocek. He is living with his mother and brothers william & Louis. There is also a Catherine King with them a servant. They are living at 27 Cumberland St West, Kelvin Glasgow Barony.

His occupation is down as painter artist.

So he married after 1891 and he is not with his mother in 1901.

Sharon