Re: Finding Maryland Cofiell's
Hello I see Yox listed under your surnames I am from the Yox family of East Aurora New York.Are you a relation???
Ayme Yox Martin
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Re: Finding Maryland Cofiell's
I am from Yox in Maryland. Two settled there, Johann Heinrich and Konrad. Johann farmed in Deer Park and Konrad farmed in Soldiers Delight.
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Re: Finding Maryland Cofiell's
Were your Yox ancestors,Johann Heinrich and Konrad,from Uber Bessingen,Hesse Darmstadt?
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Best I have been able to tell, Johann Heinrich and Konrad were brothers. My branch comes from Johann Heinrich.
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Yes, Johann Heinrich and Konrad were from Uber Bessingen, Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt. But, I have not been able to find any links there. When I visit Familie-Jox who presently live there, they note that the German name of the town is spelled Ober Bessingen.
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Re: Finding Maryland Cofiell's
Hi, I am just beginning my search into my ancestry but have found that I too come from the Johann Heinrich branch out of Deer Park, MD. Have you been able to go much further??
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Nicole, I've been stuck on this side of the Atlantic since 1976. My wife and I have done primary research in the churches of the Giessen area with nothing to show for it. We have found in a couple of US Censuses that Johann Heinrich arrived in 1854 on a ship that departed Bremen. That is only an indirect finding inasmuch as the records are attached to Conrad who was a son of the progenitor and brother to Johann Heinrich. Complicating things somewhat is the matter of Johann Heinrich being the same name as that of Conrad's father and brother. Our theory is that Johann Heinrich (the father), Johann Heinrich (the son), and Conrad were the only Yoxes (Ger. Jox) who settled in Maryland. There appear to be hundreds of Yoxes who settled in Erie County, New York, and who emigrated from locations nearby where Johann Heinrich came from.
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Johann Heinrich Yox (Jox), my GGrandfather, emigrated from Kurhessen in the 1850's. From research which began in the1970's, it looks like he brought with him his wife Catherine and 2 sons, John Henry and Johann Conrad. These arrived - apparently - through the port of Baltimore and may be the only Joxes from the Hessen-Kassel region. My theory is that the Joxes who settled in Erie County New York arrived through Ellis Island.
Bottom line is that we are related because our ancestors most likely fled the Prussian conscription from the same general area of Germany.
My research has been stymied since aprx. 1976 when we found my ancestor who immigrated to Baltimore County, MD, and remain unable to connect through any documentation to a specific town in Germany.
John E Yox
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Hi-just want to add that the Yox families who arrived in NY did so before there was an Ellis Island used for immigration. In the earlier times all immigrants to NY City came through Castle Garden. My Erie County ancestors, John and Anna Port Yox arrived in America in 1857. From my years of research I have learned that the Yox' were a clan of weavers. I also believe the name once was Jacques and they were French Protestants (Huegenots) who were forced to run for their lives ousted by the French Catholics. Some fled to England, some came to the American colonies and some went to Germany.
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Re: Finding Maryland Cofiell's
On a trip to the Giessen area this past September, where we visited with several of a Jox-family, my wife and I were given the Familienbuch Ober-Bessingen, which was compiled by Hans-Karl Brückmann. That the Joxes were a clan of weavers is certainly supported in the book. The occupation of Leineweber (including Leinewebermeister) has the most entries. The next-largest number of entries is Ackermann (lit. man of the plow, or farmer), which might be expected in an agrarian world of that time.
One of the family opined to me that the Joxes are believed to have be Hugenotten (Huguenots), which was the first time that I had heard this. My Johann Heinrich (GGrandfather) was Lutheran, whereas the Huguenots were Calvin as I understand it. My GGF was baptized Roman Catholic about a week before his death according to the records of the little church in Harrisonville, Baltimore County, Maryland.
Thx for the great information about Castle Garden. I've been dabbling in genealogy since 1976 and had not yet run across that fact.
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