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Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 9:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
I've been curious about my family history for quite some time, but I haven't been able to turn up much information on it to be honest.
I really want to know what our national heritage was, and how far back can we trace our lineage?
Any information would be appriciated.

Pvt Leif L. Moak

Re: Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 11:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
There are two major families of Moaks in the United States. One branch immigrated into New York in the mid-18th century and generally moved west through the Northern States. Moaks in New York, Ohio and northern Illinois generally come from this family. The second branch arrived through Charleston, South Carolina around 1740-1745. One part did move through Tennessee into Southern Illinois into the Williamson County area. Most of the Moaks from the South Carolina branch moved along the southern tier of states, primarily settling in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

The national heritage appears to be Swiss, although after 250 years on the American continent, all Moaks are bound to be multi-cultural by this time - in other words, our national heritage is American (United Statesian?)

You can send me, offline, any information that you might have on your family - names of parents, grandparents, etc. - and I can see what I can turn up. I have been slowly trying to piece together the history of the Moak Family that originated in South Carolina. At this time, I have 10,385 descendants of Andrew Moak and still finding many lines that have never been researched.

My e-mail address is jefferson.moak@verizon.net

Jefferson M. Moak

Re: Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 5:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank You Very Much.
I Will Send You An Outline Of Our Family As Soon As Possible,
There's Two Or Three Members I Do Not Know Yet.
Once I Have Their Names I'll Give Them To You.
Thank You Again.

Re: Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 3:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Greetings, Are you still around? The Moak portion of my heritage seams to have moved back to NY to spend the rest of there lives or moved to Florida.. I would be interested in corresponding. So I will.

Re: Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 5:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
hi I am from the Moak family. Debbie summers, Maxine Alldredge, Guy Alldredge', Mamie Moak, Simeon Moak, he came from New York. He was an early pioneer in northern California.

Re: Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 9:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
My name is Sara Moak,
I'm from the branch of Moaks from South Carolina, I was also born there.
There is not much that I know, all I know is that the Moaks that I know claim to be from Germany and a man bearing the Moak name here to South Carolina. The story after that is pretty interesting, he married a girl with a dowry and had 16 kids. Then after that married her younger sister and had 16 more kids. These kids then spread out over the country and from what my family tells me, the ones in the north became rich and the ones in the south stayed poor. Now saying that the ones in South became or stayed poor seems to be true, but if any of this is true, I have no idea. This is the only story that I know of from our family.

Re: Private Moak Looking For Information Please

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 12:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Interesting story but one that I had not heard and am not certain of its validity.

If you are of the South Carolina Moaks, then you are probably descended from Andrew Moak who immigrated to South Carolina about 1740. All that we definitely know is that he had one child - Jacob Moak. There are a couple of other Moaks in the 1790 census that may be other children but most of the records were destroyed during the Civil War.

There are two major families of Moaks in America: those descended from Andrew Moak of South Carolina; and those descended from Hans Jacob Moak of New York. At this time, I have over 11,000 known descendants of Andrew Moak of South Carolina in my database.

Since Andrew Moak settled in the Saxe-Gotha area of South Carolina, it is believed that he is either Germany or Swiss origin, probably the latter. The European spelling of the name may have been Maag but again there are no records found to prove or disprove this.

Jacob Moak married a Mary (NOT Mary Magee - she married Jacob Moak of New York) and had 8 children. The first three children moved initially to Tennessee and many of them relocated to Williamson County, Illinois. The next three children all moved to southern Mississippi where many of their descendants still populate the Mississippi-Louisiana border counties.

Your story does bear a resemblance to that of Andrew Moak, son and fifth child of Jacob Moak. Andrew married Catharine Dominey who bore him seven children before she died. Andrew then married Catharine's sister, Susannah, who added another ten children to the family. All seventeen children lived to adulthood - a phenomenal accomplishment in the early 19th century.

I would be interested in learning about your particular family and where it fits into the Moak Family History.

Jefferson Moak
Jefferson.moak@verizon.net
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