Johann Carle (Heÿ) Hoy (abt. 1710 - abt. 1780)

Born about Feb 1710 in Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Eva (Schaurer) Hoy — married 17 Feb 1733 in Evangelisch, Rohrbach-Steinweiler, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died about 1780 at about age 69 in Berks County, Pennsylvania

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Carl (Heÿ) Hoy migrated from Germany to the US.

Biography

Johann Carle was born about 1710. He passed away about 1780.

On 17 Feb 1733, Carl married Maria Eva Schaurer d/o Peter Schaurer in Rohrbach, Germany. ^[1][2]

The couple's son, Johann Bernhard Hey, was born on 24 Dec 1743 in Rohrbach-Steinweller. ^[3]

According to Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18. Jahrhundert (Emigration from the Rhineland Palatinate and Saarland in the 18th Century), 1987 by Werner Hacker, Karl Hey received permission to leave Rohrbach on 10 Dec 1750. Carl, Maria Eva, and six children are believed to have emigrated. Of the children, only three are known to have lived to maturity: Albert, Phillip, and Bernhard. Carl's last child, Elizabeth, was born in Pennsylvania.^[2]

Carl and his family arrived in Philadelphia on 25 Sep 1751 aboard the Phoenix sailing from Rotterdam.^{[2][4] [5]}

In April 1764, Carl (Charles Hei) was naturalized at a Supreme Court for the Province of Pennsylvania session held in Philadelphia. ^[6]

In 1764, 1768, and 1780, Carl (Charles) is found living in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania along with his eldest son, Albrecht (Albert). ^[7]

On March 20, 1782, he conveyed 50 acres in Bethel, Berks County to his son Bernhard, in consideration of love and affection, and ten pounds nine shillings. The unrecorded deed is at Berks Historical Society, Reading and is a portion of Parcel #163 on the Bethel, Berks Warrant Map. His name appears in the deed as "Charles High," though his signature matches that on the Phoenix ship lists in 1751 (and does not look like it says Charles High).^[8]

Research Notes

Naming

Johann is Carl's spiritual name. All males in his family received this name and it was used only in religious contexts (where he would have been known as Johann Carl). In all secular contexts he would have been known as Carl. This German naming custom eventually went out of favor in America, but is commonly found among early German immigrants.^[9]

Arrival

The Original List of Arrivals^[4] shows both Carl and Albrecht. Wife Maria and sons Phillip and Bernhard were not listed as would be expected since only the names of adult males were recorded.

Rupp (op cit) p.136-137 shows a Johan Carl Hey arriving at Philadelphia on 3 Sep 1739 aboard the Royal Judith sailing from Rotterdam. Eva Haelen (op cit) speculates as to whether this might be the same Carl Hey, arriving earlier to evaluate the new land before returning to Europe to retrieve his family.

Ancestry's Pennsylvania, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890 (Ancestry Record 3570 #28155348) has a Johann Hay residing in Philadelphia Township in 1751. This is consistent with our Carl, but with only a spiritual given name it is difficult to know for sure it's him.

Second Marriage?

Ancestry's Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821 (shared image provided at link) shows a marriage between Johann Carl Hoy and Sophia Wilt on 17 Apr 1780 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (But see note below.)

His Nephew

Charles had a nephew who was born on January 13, 1745 and baptized in Winden with the name Isaac Haÿ on January 17, 1745. ^{[10] [11]} His parents were Charles’ brother Jacob (1703-1756) and his wife Anna Catharina Bohein (c. 1710-1794). ^[12] Isaac appears to be the Isaac Hey who emigrated in 1766 from nearby Hergersweiler, Germersheim (where his parents baptized their younger children and died). Werner Hacker provides this information but not Isaac’s destination. ^[13] He may have come to Pennsylvania, but no definitive records have been found for him there.

A Contemporary Carl Hey in Pennsylvania

Another Carl Hey was baptized in Achtelsbach on April 30, 1717, the son of Peter or Petrig Hey from Hausweiler and his wife Anna Susanna Roth from Brucken bei Birkenfeld. ^[14] Peter and Anna Susanna immigrated to Pennsylvania with their 15 children on the ship Loyal Judith, which arrived in Philadelphia on September 3, 1742. ^[15] All 15 children have baptism records in either Achtelsbach or Brucken. That family settled in Germantown, and several of the children appear with their spouses and children in the records of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Germantown. Carl sponsored his sister Eva Elisabeth’s son Johan Carl Mohr there on October 20, 1745. ^[16] He had at least five children, whom he baptized there with his wife Maria Barbara. He was the eldest son, and was probably the “Johan Carl Hey” who arrived in Philadelphia on the Loyal Judith on September 3, 1739 (the same ship that brought the rest of his family exactly three years later). ^[17] He probably did not return to Brucken and then join his family on their trip, since he is not listed on the later ship’s lists. That seems a more likely possibility than that this profiled Carl left his wife and children to go alone to Pennsylvania, especially since his wife Elisabeth gave birth to their daughter Anna Elisabeth on July 4, 1739 in Rohrbach or Winden.

Another Carl Hey, husband of Sophia Wilt

A third man, Johann Carl Hoy, married Sophia Wilt in Saint Michael's and Zion Church in Philadelphia on April 17, 1780. He was probably the man who was born in Germantown on January 29, 1755, the son of Philipps Georg Hey (born September 27, 1730 in Brucken) and Elisabetha Dorothea Wagner. If so, he was the nephew of the Carl Hey of Achtelsbach mentioned above.

Sources

1. ↑ Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971 (Ancestry), citing Parish registers from numerous Protestant communities in Germany ; Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Rohrbach (BA. Bergzabern) ; Film no. 193132 | Carl Heÿ m. Maria Eva Schaurer, 17 Feb 1732, Rohrbach, Steinweiler, Germany. Ancestry Record 9870 #20836488. Image of original document, from Ancestry.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Eva Hoy Haelen. Descendants of Bernhard Hoy (1743 - circa 1810). Baltimore, MD, Gateway Press Inc, 2006. p. 1-2.
3. ↑ Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 (Ancestry), citing Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL film no. 488505 | Johann Bernhard Hey, s/o Carl Hey and Maria Eva, b. 24 Dec bpt. 25 Dec 1743, Evangelisch, Rohrbach-Steinweiler, Pfalz, Bavaria. Ancestry Record FS1GermanyBirthsandBaptisms #21478169
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, 1883-1959, and William John Hinke. Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals In the Port of Philadelphia From 1727 to 1808. Norristown, Penn.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934 p. 469-470
5. ↑ Rupp, I. Daniel (Israel Daniel), 1803-1878. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French And Other Immigrants In Pennsylvania From 1727-1776 ... =: Chronologisch Geordnete Sammlung Von Mehr Als 30,000 Namen Von Einwanderern In Pennsylvanien Aus Deutschland, Der Schweiz, Holland, Frankreich U. A. St. Von 1727 Bis 1776 .... 2nd rev. and enl. ed. with German translation. Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, 1898. p. 262-263.
6. ↑ Pennsylvania Archives, Second series, volume 2 . 451-452.
7. ↑ Pennsylvania archives. Third series V.18 p. 76, 164, 415.
8. ↑ Typed copy of unrecorded deed which is located in the Berks County Historical Society, Reading, Pennsylvania, included in Haelen, p. 220.
9. ↑ 18th Century PA German Naming Customs by Charles Kerchner
10. ↑ Isaac Haÿ in the Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971, available on Ancestry.com.
11. ↑ See also the Winden Family Book at https://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=winden&ID=1272&nachname=Hay&lang=de.
12. ↑ Winden Family Book at https://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=winden&ID=1311&nachname=de+la+Hay&lang=de.
13. ↑ Hacker, Professor Werner. Eighteenth Century Register of Emigrants from Southwest Germany (to America and Other Countries). Closson Press, Apollo, Pennsylvania. 1994. p. 187.
14. ↑ Jung, Rudi. Familienbuch des ev./luth. Kirchspiels Achtelbach für die Zeit von 1572 - 1799 at http://www.rolf-freytag.de/trans/achtelsbach.pdf.
15. ↑ Jung, Rudi. Familienbuch Birkenfeld at http://www.rolf-freytag.de/trans/birkenfeld_ev.pdf.
16. ↑ St. Michael’s Lutheran Church records, p. 230, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, available on Ancestry.com.
17. ↑ Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, LL.D., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals In the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, edited by William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D., Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, PA, 1934. 3 volumes. Originally published as volumes XLII to XLIV in the series Proceedings and addresses (Pennsylvania-German Society). Volume 1, Page 269, at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000007109121&view=1up&seq=345&q1=%22Carl+Hey%22