Wednesday, April 26, 2000

The Heuck Family of Northfield, Illinois

The Georg Heuck family settled in Northfield, Illinois about 1856 from the town of Keil in the Holstein, area of Germany. Germany was not unified at the time of their emigration and the Keil Hostein area was ruled by Denmark.

Georg Heuck (b. in Keil, Holstein) and Margareta Oldenbuttel (b. in Hanover Province) married in 1839 and brought their many children to Northfield.

The Heuck children were born in Hanover province of Germany: August (b. 1839), Margareta (b. 1847), Henning (b. 1850), Janet (b. 1850), Catherine (b. 1852), and Frederick (b. 1856).

Georg Heuck was a blacksmith by trade. It has been said that he made surgical instruments. His eldest son, August, became a blacksmith carrying on his father’s trade.

Extended family lived nearby. Lawrence Heuck was found living next door to the George Heuck family in the 1870 US census. He was most likely a brother to Georg. Margareta Oldenbuttel’s brother, Gerhard, was living with August Heuck in 1880. Many members of this German speaking family are buried at the new St Peter’s cemetery located in Northbrook, Illinois.

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