Tom, I have often wondered if my Henry was from another place and just sailed in to Boston and married Elizabeth....or dropped in from outer space. I got the Channel Island thing from several 1922-24 queries in the Boston Transcript that are on microfilm at the SLC Library. They couldn't find Henry's roots either....that's why they and I have considered a possible name change. Now I see that perhaps I should be looking further south. Henry was not related closely if at all to Rev. Thomas Hooker, and not on this side of the pond to Gen. Joe Hooker. I've also seen the name as Hucker, Hacker and Hawker. I figured Ocker may have been a phonetic rendition of an Englishman's accent when dropping the "H" in Hooker. Who knows? If we all keep digging I'm convinced we will all be able to find our immigrant ancestor and probably connect a lot of these Hooker lines. Carole -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:46 AM Subject: [HOOKER] Hooker Line >Carole, > >Yes, I remember Arthur Hooker who lived in British Columbia. I too >corresponded with him very briefly long before I developed a serious interest >in my ancestry. I think I still have one eight page report from him, but it >basically just summarizes the family of Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, >CT. > >Your Hooker early history was of interest, that part going to a Henry Hucker, >married in Boston in the early 1700s. > >A Hooker cousin of mine says our grandfather often remarked about descending >from a Henry Hooker. (My parents divorced when I was young, so I never heard >these stories.) Once I started a vigorous tracing of our line, it led me to a >Robert Hucker, living in what became Prince Georges County, Maryland, in the >late 1600s. His name was given as Hucker, Hawker and Hooker. His parents are >unknown, but I found an old report on a CD-ROM that claimed my Robert's >parents were Thomas Hawker and Patience, formerly married to Henry Needham. I >have been able to document these three individuals in Maryland during the >latter half of the 1600s, but not the names of their children. My Robert >Hooker married Amee Selby, then died in Prince Georges County around 1711. > >Robert's will conveniently listed not only his children, but their birth >dates: > >Samuel, b. October 11, 1699, married a woman named Margaret >Elizabeth, b. December 14, 1701, and later married Samuel Pruitt >Robert, b. September 11, 1706, married Elizabeth Deakins >Amy, b. July 27, 1708 > >Tom Hooker >Orlando > >