Margaretha (Unknown) Hoyle (1745 - 1827)

Born 1745 in Germany [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 25 May 1827 at about age 82 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Maiden Name Lore

So far, evidence for the maiden name or parentage of Margaret, wife of Michael Hoyle, has not been established.

Margaret Hoyle's tombstone is inscribed Margaret Hoyle died May 25, 1827, aged 82 years, which calculates to a 1745 birth year. This is a joint stone for Margaret and her husband Michael erected after her 1827 death.^[1] Michael and Margaret Hoyle's first child Peter was born 1762, according to Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker.^[2] If Margaret's 1745 birth year and Peter's 1762 birth year are correct, then Margaret (Unknown) Hoyle was about age seventeen when her first child was born.

Laban Miles Hoffman wrote that Margaret was “sister of Henry Dellinger and sister of Eve [sic] Catherine Rudisill, wife of Michael Rudisill.” Hoffman's assertion was republished in 1938 by Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker. Mrs. Rucker appears to have invented a specific birth date April 27 for Margaret Hoyle.^[3]

Mr. Hoffman's statement of Margaret's parentage relied upon oral history gathered from his contemporaries in 1905-1915; he had no access to German church records. The lore is problematic for several reasons:

1) Henry Dellinger, son of Philipp Dellinger, did have a half-sister named Margaretha but she was not born until 6 January 1750.^[4]

2) Margaret (Unknown) Hoyle's first known child Peter was born 1762. She cannot be the same person as Philip Dellinger's daughter who was born 1750. That would mean Margaret was merely age eleven at her circa 1761 marriage and only age twelve when her first child was born.

3) An additional problem with Dellinger lore is the absence of evidence that Henry Dellinger had a sister named Eve Catherine Dellinger. See Philipp Dellinger for documented accounts of Philipp's known children; also see Catherine, wife of Michael Rudisill.

Census households

1790 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morgan District, Eighth Company, p. 119, line 21, Michl. Hoyl.^[5]
1 male age 16 and up
2 males 0-15 [born 1775-1790]
6 females
3 slaves

1800 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, population schedule, p. 842 (penned), line 8, Margaret Hoyle household.^[6]
Female 45 & up [born before 1756]
Male 16-26 [born 1775-1784, John?]
Female 10-16 [born 1785-1790]
Five Slaves

1810 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, population schedule: no household is enumerated for Margaret Hoyle, and it may have been skipped. Women over the age of 45 are in households of
Christian Best [son-in-law]
Peter Hoyle [son]
Robert Mendenhall [son-in-law]
Michael Rhyne [son-in-law]
Jacob Stroup [son-in-law]
Son in law Jacob Rudisill is not indexed.

1820 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, p. 302 (stamped), line 21, Margaret Hoyle household.^[7]
Female 45 & over
12 Slaves:
4 Males 0–13
1 Male 14–25
3 Females 0–13
1 Female 14–25
3 Females 26–44
Engaged in Agriculture: five people
Total household occupants: thirteen

1823 Will of Margaret (née —?—) Hoyle

Margaret Hoyle executed her Lincoln County will on 12 June 1823. She named her nine surviving children and two sons of her deceased daughter Hannah (Hoyle) Rhyne.

To grandson Michael Rhyne and also to the five children of my grandson Jacob Rhyne which were born in wedlock with his wife Catharine.

To my nine children: Peter, Barbara, Mary, Susannah, Elizabeth, Catharine, John, Margaret, and Ann

Executor: Andrew Hoyl

Witnesses Andrew Hoyl, Margaret Hufsteller [Huffstetler].^[8] Margaret's will entered probate at July 1827 sessions of Lincoln County Court.

On the same day, 13 June 1823, that Margaret Hoyle executed her will, she also executed deeds of gift to her children. See Lincoln County, North Carolina, deed book 30:^[9]

p. 628, to my beloved daughter Catharine Huffstotler

pp. 628-29. to my beloved daughter Margaret Sietz [Seitz]

p. 629, to my beloved daughter Susanna Rudisail [Rudisill]

p. 630, to my beloved son John Hoyl

p. 630, to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Best

p. 631, to my beloved son Peter Hoyl

pp. 631-32, to my beloved daughter Barbara Rhyne

p. 632, to my beloved daughter Mary Beam

pp. 632-33, to my beloved daughter Anne Mendenhall

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, memorial page for Margaret Dellinger Hoyle (27 Apr 1745–25 Nov 1827), memorial 25024116 created 3 March 2008 by LoRetta Hughes; citing Best Cemetery, Gaston County, North Carolina. Now maintained by Rita Wehunt-Black (contributor 48110921). Photographs by Terry Wagner.
2. ↑ Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker (1872-1950), The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936 (Shelby, North Carolina: Z. J. Thompson and Others, 1938), p. 38; digital edition, HathiTrust.
3. ↑ Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin: Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families (1915; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., 1984), pp. 412-73; digital images, Ancestry.
4. ↑ Margaretha daughter of Philipp and Catsarina Dellinger, St. Andrews Evangelical Lutheran Church of Oberacker in present-day State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Births 1717–1766, p. 100; Family History Library microfilm 1272382, item 8.
5. ↑ 1790 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morgan District, Eighth Company, p. 119, line 21, Michl Hoyl household; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publication M637, roll 7.
6. ↑ 1800 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, population schedule, p. 842 (penned), line 8, Margaret Hoyle household; NARA M32, roll 29.
7. ↑ 1820 U.S. census, Lincoln County, North Carolina, p. 302 (stamped), line 21, Margaret Hoyle household; NARA M33, roll 83.
8. ↑ Lincoln County Will, box CRX 83, North Carolina State Archives. CRX is a call number assigned to records received from unofficial sources by the Archives. Margaret Hoyle’s original will was donated to the Archives by an anonymous person.
9. ↑ Lincoln County, North Carolina, deed book 30: 628-633, Margaret Hoyle to her children, Register of Deeds, Lincolnton.