Hoeckley Family History & Genealogy

Summary

Friedrich Sigmund HECKLE, born on December 18th 1758 in Ebingen (Wuerttemberg, Germany), emigrates to America approximately in the year 1785. There he Americanized his last name to HOECKLEY. The meaning of the original name HECKLE is unknown.
Friedrich Sigmund married Susanna BECK, born on June 25th 1768 in Germantown, on April 4th 1787 in Jenkintown.
Friedrich Sigmund died on August 22nd 1823 in Cocosink (or Cohoesink, Cohocsink?), Susanna on April 4th 1839 in Philadelphia.
One of their daughters, Sarah HOECKLEY, born on October 17th 1792 in Philadelphia and died on August 17th 1856, was married to Wilhelm Heinrich HORSTMANN, born on August 16th 1785 in Kassel (Germany) and died on August 5th 1850 in Philadelphia.
Wilhelm Heinrich and Sarah have been great-grandparents to my father-in-law.
In case of a last name was dying out because of lack of male descendants, the ancestors of my father-in-law used to transfer this last name as a given name to a young member of another branch of the family in order to keep the name in remembrance. So my father-in-law, born on March 2nd 1910, received the names Adolf Julius Sigmund Hoeckley ODEN and was called Hoeckley.

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