LeCocq Family History

These documents summarize the LeCocq family history, tracing back to French Huguenots. It also includes research done by Ralph B. LeCocq in an attempt to find some lost relatives from his mother's side of the family.

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Excerpt: 30 children are born to Arent de Kock in Holland

Dirk P. De Young

Excerpt from a work about the Van Zee family history which includes history of the family name De Kock; in French spelled, Le Cocq.
Excerpt: Souvenir History of Pella, 1874-1922

G A. Stout

A few pages from the book, Souvenir History of Pella 1847-1922, which mention J.F. LeCocq and F. LeCocq Sr.
Family of Isaac van Gorkum

Excerpts from Registrar

Document showing children and grandchildren of Isaac van Gorkum and Antonia van Hengstbergen, including Maria, who married Frank LeCocq Sr. Lists birthdates, birthplaces, and deathdates for some.
Huguenot Society of America Scholarship Application, April 11, 1991

Eric Frank Eben

Scholarship Application showing ancestors of Eric F. Eben, which trace back to the LeCocq family. Shows ancestors and their birth and marriage dates, as well as the sources of the research.
Letter from Anton and Liek Tjeenk Willink to Sandra Eben, February 9, 1991

Anton Tjeenk Willink and Liek Tjeenk Willink - de Jonge

Letter from relatives of Sandra Eben in the Netherlands describing research related to the ancestors of the LeCocq family, of which Sandra is a descendant.
Letter from Anton and Liek Tjeenk Willink to Sandra Eben, March 23, 1991

Anton Tjeenk Willink and Liek Tjeenk Willink - de Jonge

Letter from relatives in the Netherlands with additional research about the LeCocq ancestors. Includes photocopies of marriage certificate of Nicolaus LeCocq and birth certificate of his son Johannes LeCocq.
Letter from B.D. Dykstra to Nelson Nieuwenhuis, n.d.

B D. Dykstra

Letter describing the personality of Frank LeCocq Jr.
Letter from Emma Hoyt, circa 1889

Emma Hoyt

Letter describing the death of a sister, Grace, due to blood poisoning. The letter is from a niece of Mary van Gorkum, Frank Sr.'s wife. Mary's sister, Sophia, moved to California and Oregon with her husband and eight children, Emma being one of them. This may have been the last letter the LeCocqs ever received from them, as their whereabouts became lost.
Letter from Mrs. Ken Eben to Mrs. Kennedy, April 11, 1991

Sandra Eben

Letter introducing the research completed on the 4-5-6-7 descendents of the LeCocq family.
Letter from Ralph B. LeCocq to Rev. B. D. Dykstra, January 2, 1948

Ralph B. LeCocq

Letter detailing some brief history about Ralph and his brothers, as well as his father Frank Jr. Ralph offers to send B. D. some scrapbooks to use for historic means.
Letter from Ralph B. LeCocq to Sexton of the Cleveland, OR Cemetery, October 13, 1950

Ralph B. LeCocq

Letter requesting the cemetery to find information or records about the Hackley family through information gained from an old letter about the daughter Emma Hoyt or Grace, who died young.
Letter from R. Omnozez to Ralph B. LeCocq, January 12, 1954

R Omnozez

Letter informing that R. Omnozez also has LeCocqs in his ancestry from French origin. He wishes Ralph well and regrets that they did not have the chance to meet when in Brussels.
Letter from Roy Agee to Ralph B. LeCocq, October 16, 1950

Roy Agee

Letter informing that the correct Hoyt family was not found in the Roseburg, Melrose, nor the Cleveland localities.
Newspaper excerpt, wedding of Frank Jr. and Rhoda Brinks, August 9, 1883

Sioux County Herald

Paragraph outlined in red in the Sioux County Herald which shares the news that the fair Rhoda Brinks and talented Frank LeCocq Jr. were married in the Holland settlement in Douglas County.
Pieter Floris Registry, April 1847

Pieter Floris

Registry of names of people who were on the ship, the Pieter Floris, which sailed from Amsterdam to Baltimore, Maryland in April, 1847. List includes the LeCocq family.
The Frank Le Cocq Jr. Family

Ralph B. LeCocq

Document detailing short biographies of the parents and children of Frank LeCocq Jr.
Timeline of Dutch history, as related to American and French history

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Document giving short timeline of historical events in regards to Dutch - American relations as well as Dutch - French relations.