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Posted: 31 Dec 2001 7:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 16 Jul 2002 1:44AM GMT
Hi my name is Amanda Ipock, im 17 and i live in York Pa. I thought we were the only Ipocks around. if u could help me i would like to know where our name came from. we have spent and spent money on trying to fine out, and no one was able to help us. if you could help it would be very greatful.!
Thank you,
Amanda Ipock

Re: hi!

Sharon Manning (View posts)
Posted: 6 Jan 2002 1:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Amanda - saw your message of 12/2001 wanting to know where the surname Ipock came from - please check out the message boards from me under the name
SHARON LEWIS MANNING or SHARON MANNING.
EMAIL ME BACK AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.

SHARON
Posted: 13 Jan 2002 4:52AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Aug 2002 12:22AM GMT
Surnames: Dail, Manning, Harris, Lewis, Mills
Amanda. . .
Hope you find the following of interest.
Sue Dail Pittman

The following two excerpts are taken from “The Heritage of Craven County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984” Barbara M. Howard Thorne, Editor, Published by The Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society in cooperation with The History Division of Hunter Publishing Company Winston-Salem, North Carolina
IPOCK #272

Much has been said and written concerning this odd name. The clan is either Swiss or German, perhaps both. It is spelled Ipach and Ibach in Germany and it may well have been the name of a small village, as many hamlet and village names end in bach which means brook.

The name is rare in both Europe and America, apparently almost unheard of except in Craven County, N. C. Here it’s one of the most common last names around. Among the first settlers of New Bern in 1710, arriving here with Baron Christopher de Graffenried, were Elbach’s. A Jacob Elbach was one of the signers of a petition of the Palatines.

In land records circa 1741-1745 a Jacob Ipock was granted 150 acres of land in Craven County. He also purchased land, on Beaver Creek, and Christian Ipock land on the north side of Neuse River, west side of Swift Creek; also a Vallentine Iback is mentioned.

One historical roster lists seven Ipocks from this area in the Revolutionary War. Another roster lists fifteen Ipocks as having fought for the south during the Civil War.

Ipocks have wandered very little; they still tend to cluster in Craven County. A few have moved east to Beaufort, N. C. And a few others as “far west” as Kinston and Goldsboro, N. C.

In different records I have encountered these various spellings of the name: Elbach, Eback, Epagh, Iback, Slopak, Apock, Ipach, Hypock, Ispack, Spock, Ybach, Hubbach, Slobbach, and Impock.

An interesting observation was made by Stephen F. Miller in his booklet, Recollections of New Bern, N. C. Fifty Years Ago, page 45 “I was not aware, then, that the Ipocks belonged to the Swiss nobility who came over with the founders of Newbern. I have since been informed, however, that such is the fact, and I make this allusion for what it is worth, -- the original name being Ebach in Switzerland, which has degenerated into Ipock in the marshes and brambles of Craven County.”

Sources: Census records, land records, Revolutionary War roster, Civil War roster, personal knowledge and Recollections of New Bern, N. C. Fifty Years Ago by Stephen F. Miller.

-- Joselyn Paul Ipock

The Ipock Family Settlers #273

The Ipock Family of Craven County was among the first settlers of New Bern in 1710. The Swiss family of nobility was part of the Christopher de Graffenreid group that fled their homeland because of religious persecution and settled along the branches of the Neuse River. The earliest known member of this family in America was Vallentine Ibock, who was listed among the New Bern settlers from 1711 to 1714. The family name has been spelled various ways including Elback, Elbach, Ebach, Ispack, Ipack, and finally Ipock.

In 1739 a Jacob Ipock married the widow of John Wexdale. On August 2, 1740, Jacob Ipock is listed as one of the twenty-four Palatines, who signed a contract to build a house of worship on the south side of the Trent River between the ferry and John Kinsey’s plantation. The worship place became known as the High German Chapel or Palatine Church, in what is now Jones County.

Several deeds can be found in Craven County involving early members of the Ipock family. Jacob Ipack was granted 150 acres of land on September 25, 1741. The following year, Thomas Fisher conveyed 180 acres to Christian Ipock for fifteen pounds. This tract of land was located on the north side of the Neuse River and on the west side of Swift Creek beginning at a gum on Bare Branch. At a Council held in Bath on March 13, 1745, Governor Gabriel Johnston and others granted Jacob Ispack 150 acres. On April 10, 1745, at a Council held in New Bern, Christian Ipack was granted 150 acres of land in Craven County. In 1746 Jacob Ipock sold his 1741 patented claim on Beaver Creek to Frederick Isler. However, on April 11, 1749, Jacob Ipock was granted 80 additional acres in Craven County. In 1753 he sold 150 more acres more of his 1741 patented claim to Frederick Isler. Furthermore, in 1756 he conveyed to John Harper the 1749 parcel of land on the north side of the Trent River. Christian Ipock and his wife Mary sold 220 acres of land on the north side of the Neuse River to Thomas Little in March, 1751.

On July 13, 1747, Jacob Elbach is among the group of forty-two signers of a petition to King George II of England from persons identifying themselves as Palatines or descendants of Palatines. The group was pleading for assistance, since they had unknowingly lost the land they had claimed and settled along the Neuse and Trent Rivers of Craven County.

In 1769 four Ipocks are listed among the taxables in Craven County: Peter Jacob, Christian, and Jacob, Jr. When Jones County was established in 1779 as a new county from western Craven County, Jacob Ipock, Sr., and Felton Hypock were among the list of new county petitioners. Later during the 1784-1787 North Carolina Census of Jones County, Christian Ipock was listed as the head of the household with two males under twenty-one or above sixty years of age and two females with no indicated ages. Furthermore, William Ipock, between the ages 21 and 60, was head of a household with one female.

Craven County marriage records indicate the names of three Ipocks who married in the 1700’s: (1) Samuel Ipock to Ann Hickmand on October 18, 1789; (2) John Ipock to Nancy Pearce, February 20, 1787; and (3) Arthur Ipock to Seney Ipock, December 2, 1793.

At this point the writer knows the names of only a few children of the above named Ipocks, but many family-name descendants with similar names still live along the branches and creeks of the Neuse and Trent Rivers today.

Sources: “Historical Gleanings: Early Settlers, The Ipock Family” by Elizabeth Moore, January 20, 1961, Mirror, Craven County marriage bonds: Colonial Records; Craven County Records of Deeds; tax lists).

--- Dennis E. Jones

Re: hi!

Sharon Lewis Manning (View posts)
Posted: 23 Jan 2002 3:14AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Amanda,
It's nice to know there are more Ipocks in the USA - and young ones too!
Amanda, if you will check out the Ipock message boards that I have either posted or replied to, you will find out where the Ipocks came from.
Bottom Line: Surname Ipock is of Cherokee and German descent - mostly German. It's kind of detailed, and would take up too much cyberspace.
If you will tell me how you got to be an Ipock (mother or father's side) and list your Ipock grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., I might be able to help you.

I live in NC and have access to a lot of stuff here through the different Register of Deeds offices and personal family history. My grandmother was an Ipock - check out also on Ancestry.com the surname Ipock under "county searches" as well as "all boards."

Re: hi! sharon

Posted: 4 Feb 2002 1:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 4 Apr 2004 1:12AM GMT
my husband and i are trying to build a family tree for our daughter. the ipock name was his grand mother name .carrie ipock here fathers name was levi ipock and he married a margaret hartley, levi parents were morgan ipock and nancy bush, morgan parents were james ipock and elizabeth morgan .if you can go back any futher for us or tell me how to find the information it would be greatly appreciated diana morris

Re: hi! sharon

sharon manning (View posts)
Posted: 5 Feb 2002 12:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Diane Morris -
I'll try to help all i can - where are you "emailing" from?
just curious - I'm in NC

sharon

Re: hi! sharon

Posted: 6 Feb 2002 2:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 4 Apr 2004 1:12AM GMT
Surnames: ipock
sorry for the confusion we live in newport nc . istill get things backwards some time if you can help would appreciate
it jon ipock came from craven county .thankyou diana morris

Re: hi! sharon

Posted: 6 Feb 2002 2:38AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 4 Apr 2004 1:12AM GMT
Surnames: ipock
sorry for the confusion we live in newport nc . istill get things backwards some time if you can help would appreciate
it jon ipock came from craven county .thankyou diana morris

Re: hi! sharon

Posted: 6 Feb 2002 4:07AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Diane - again - So you live in Newport? Had to really smile when I saw that - I'm from Morehead - my brother and his wife and 2 kids live in Newport on Tom Mann Road -
the rest of my family either live in Morehead or Beaufort or Lenxoville areas -

My grandmother was an Ipock before she married a Noe.
Her name was Dera Ipock Noe. Married Henry Noe.
Grandmother had several siblings, one of which,I bet you anything you are kin to me - was Andrew and Letha Mae =- Ipock -

I have a lot of genealogy on the Ipocks in Craven County that I can forward to you but I'll have to look and see if I have that particular name you're looking for -

Let me hear from you again - I said I live in NC - I live in between Winston-Salem and Greensboro working for federal govt and my husband is a nursing home administrator - we have a 13 year old son - Im also music director for my church in Kernersville -
Since you know Carteret County, my home church down there is Glad Tidings Church across street from West Carteret High School -

Re: Ipock Name--clarifications/additions

brian (View posts)
Posted: 7 Dec 2002 12:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ipock--Whitford--Loviner--Pritchett--Baxter
6 Dec 2002

I found Dennis Jones' message on the Ipock name and
some of the NC genealogy interesting, and on-target,
insofar as I'm only familiar, basically, with the line ex-
tending from Arthur Ipock (b. 1800) and his wife, Sina
Whitford, in Craven County, NC. My great-grandmother,
Virginia Pritchett (Baxter?) Ipock (b. 1873--I'm writing
from memory), m. William Loviner (descendant of a Spanish-born sea-captain who settled in New Bern)...around 1890.

Years ago, at the New York Public Library, I found an old
history of the Palatine emigration to America--Protestant
refugees from the religious wars that plagued the area
along the upper?? Rhine River around 1700. Palatines
were from a district or state called the Palatinate, which
originally signified a border area.

Anyway, it did list one, perhaps two "Eibachs" or "Ibachs"
who were among the original settlers of New Bern, the
first permanent colonial capital and first state capital of
NC. (Note: I'm familiar with Heritage of Craven County,
a useful book but compiled from info provided by families
who rarely had genealogical or historical training. I'm
fortunate to have had both. I'm just saying that, unless
primary documents are cited--and sometimes even then,
of course--we have to be wary about using family tradi-
tions or even "facts" that can't be corroborated in other
sources...)

"Jacob" is correct, apparently, but "Elbach" is a typographi-
cal error--apart from the fact that standardized name spel-
lings are a fairly recent thing. "Eibach" in German is pro-nounced EYE-back...I've seen the spelling "Ibach" as well.
It is actually the name of the town in Switzerland where the
famous Victorinix Swiss Army knives are made. And that
is where I would say the family likely originated.

"Jacob," incidentally, comes from the Latin for what we
would call "James"...as in the Jacobites, the followers
of James Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie" in the Scottish
rebellion of 1745...

I, too, have found and often heard that Ipock--the anglicized
version of "Eibach" or "Ibach"--is very unusual outside
Craven Co, NC and adjacent areas.

The "Ipocks"--perhaps two brothers--came with the group
of about 100(?) settlers--both German Swiss and Palatine
Germans--who settled New Bern in 1710. They were led
by Baron Christoph von Graffenried (or de Graffenried) of
Bern, Switzerland, who had a grant of land from Queen
Anne. (I've seen his name as "von de Graffenried" but
that seems like overkill. "Von" means of in German, and
"de" means of in French, so one wouldn't have repeated
the word...

Anyway, the settlers didn't get along too well with the
local tribe, the Tuscarora--and in large part because some
of the Europeans mistreated them. Anyway, a war with
the Tuscarora ensued in 1713, and they were driven out
of North Carolina with the help of troops from South
Carolina. As I recall more specifically now, "Jacob
Eibach/Ibach" was listed as one of the survivors of a
massacre by the Tuscarora--as was the other, "Johan-
nes" (John.)"

Interestingly, the name of the Indian village on the site
where New Bern was built was "Chattawka." When the
Tuscarora realized they couldn't prevail, they migrated
north to upstate New York, where they joined the Iroquois
Confederacy as the sixth nation (along with the Mohawk,
Seneca?, and others who escape me at the moment; they
may have had a language related to that of the other
Iroquois, as I recall.).

The Tuscarora named their new "capital" in western New
York state, "Chattawka," which whites came to spell "Chat-tauqua." And this was where the famous "Chattauqua Institution" was founded in the mid- to late 1800s. This was an ambitious and very successful effort to bring culture and more education to the masses of people around the country, through traveling exhibits lectures, etc. It still exists, I believe--in this day of the Internet--and certainly its historic buildings can be visited.

I'd be particularly interested in what anyone might be able
to add about the genealogy of Arthur Ipock, going back to
his immigrant "Eibach" ancestor.

Cheers, Brian
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