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John H. ROCH
Hedwig Anna MOEWS |
Husband: Johann "Hans" ROCH | John H. ROCH
Birth: 20 Mar 1909, Sonneberg, Kr. Sonneberg, Thuringia [now in Germany] Death: 27 Oct 1996 Last Residence: Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN 46203 Immigration: arrived NYC on 22 Apr 1929 on the S.S. Columbus Occupation: railway tinner Father: Johann __?__ ROCH, b. Sonneberg, Kr. Sonneberg, Thuringia [now in Germany] Uncle: Tobias ROCH (1856-1940) — of Diespeck,
Kr. Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim, Bavaria [now in Germany]
It's odd that our subject and his father would have been born in Sonneberg, while the rest of the family was born in Diespeck. Was our subject mistaken about his origin? "Hans" is not his middle name, it's a nickname for Johann. |
Marriage: 1930-34 |
Wife: Hedwig Anna MOEWS
Birth: 12 Jan 1908, Alt Damerow, Stolp Dist., Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire [now in Poland] Death: 14 May 1991 Immigration: arrived NYC on 10 Oct 1929 on the S.S. Karlsruhe Occupation: homemaker, servant Uncle: Henry F. MOEWS — of 2339 Parker Ave., Indianapolis, IN, in 1929 Father: Karl MOEWS — of Alt Damerow, Kr. Stolp, Pommern, Preussen, German Empire [now in Poland] In the 1929 ship's manifest for Hedwig's immigration, she gives Henry MOEWS of 2339 Parker Ave., Indianapolis, IN, as her "uncle" and Karl MOEWS of Altdamerow, Kr. Stolp, Pomerania as her father — meaning Henry and Karl are presumably brothers. Apparently, the Carl F. O. MOEWS living in Indianapolis since at least 1903 (five years before Hedwig's birth), whom I've taken to be Henry's brother, is not Hedwig's father. And, surely, if her father was living in the U.S., she'd have named him, not Henry, as her nearest relative in the U.S. It appears there must have been more than one brother in this family named Karl. This is not too far fetched because this family followed the pattern of children having three given names, so there was often duplication among them. It would help enormously to obtain Hedwig's marriage record, assuming it names her parents as other Indiana marriage records of the period do, but I can't find it online at the LDS site (FamilySearch.org). I implore anyone who's next of kin to obtain either her marriage record and/or her death certificate — and share the information on it — because either one should name her parents. (Indiana will not release death certificates to anyone but next of kin.) I have ordered her Social Security application, which should also name her parents, so hopefully it will help solve the mystery. |
Children — born in Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN: |
1. Ruth ROCH, b. 1933/4
2. Anita ROCH, b. 1939 |
Keywords for search engines: genealogy; Pommern, Preussen, Prueßen; POL, PL, Poland, Polen; USA, US, United States, Indiana |
Sources:
1. Marriage Record: |
2a. Passenger Arrival Records: Ellis Island (online at
ellisisland.org; image nos. 132-133; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen;
Explanation
of Column Headings), List 19:
2b. Passenger Arrival Records: Ellis Island (online at ellisisland.org; image nos. 358-359; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen; Explanation of Column Headings), List 2:
2The Henry MOEWS at 2339 Parker Avenue is this Henry F. MOEWS. |
3. 1930 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at
Ancestry.com): John ROCH (æ 21, b. Germany; imm. 1929) is living
at 909 Tacoma Ave., Indianapolis (Ward 9), Marion Co., IN (p. 85A),
with first cousin, George ROCH (æ 32, b. IN) and family. Hedwig
A. MOEWS (æ 22, b. Germany; imm. 1929) is living at 5215 College
Ave., Indianapolis (Ward 4), Marion Co., IN, as a servant in the WOOD
household (q.v.). Martin
MOEWS is living at 1630 Tacoma Ave.; Tobias ROCH is living at 1644
College Ave.
4. 1940 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #24 of 32 — indexed "Rock"): 2116 Olive [St.], Indianapolis (Ward 17), Center Twp. (Block 10), Marion Co., IN, Roll T627_1129, p. 3906B, SN 12B, SD 11, ED 96-225, enumerated 16 Apr 1940, official enumeration date 1 Apr 1940 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
6. Polk's Indianapolis (Marion County, Ind.) City Directory. R.L. Polk & Co., Indianapolis, IN (online at Ancestry.com and/or fold3.com):
7. SSDI: Social Security Death Index (online at Ancestry.com):
8. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com). 9. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com): A file there shows our subject's uncle, Tobias ROCH, as having brother Andreas, plus four other brothers, all with saint's name Johann (viz., Joh. Georg, Joh. Simon, Joh. Leonard Bernard, and Joh. Heinrich). Unfortunately, this file does not give the children of any of the brothers, except Tobias, so we don't know which one of them is our subject's father, though it was more likely the youngest, Joh. Heinrich (b. 1852). Or... our subject's father might have been one of the younger half-brothers of Tobias, born after 1864 and not listed in this file. |
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