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  • Adele Hecht (1897 - 1943)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:Hecht, Adelegeboren am 18. Mai 1897 in Datteln / Recklinghausen / Westfalen wohnhaft in DattelnInhaftierung: 04. / 05. 03. 1943 - 08. Juni 1943, Vught - Hertog...
  • Adelheid Adele Strauß (1884 - 1942)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs: Strauß, Adelheid Adele geborene Hecht geboren am 20. August 1884 in Bamberg / - / Bayern wohnhaft in Bayreuth Deportation: ab Nürnberg 29. November 1941...
  • Anna Louise Stiebel (1877 - 1946)
  • Anna Tichauer (1876 - c.1942)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs: Tichauer, Anna geboren am 28. März 1876 in Königshütte (poln. Chorzow)/Beuthen/Schlesien wohnhaft in Hindenburg O. S. DEPORTATION unbekannter De...
  • Anthony Evan Hecht (1923 - 2004)
    Anthony Hecht was a famous poet and critic who taught at several prestigious institutions, including the University of Rochester, Georgetown, Yale, Harvard, and Smith College. He served as poet laureat...

About the Hecht surname

There are various spellings for the Heck families of Germany , Holland and Ireland . Hack, Hecht, Hick and Heck The most popular is Heck. s Heck husbandry and vinedresser, age 40, son 6 daughter 8, and 4 in the third party of Palatines at St Catherine's June 2 1709 He is then listed 07/13/1715 as Palatiine family in Ireland

9/29/1720 Bastian Heck is listed as head of family at Southwell Estates. Son is Sebastian Heck

The Palantine families in Rathkeale Ireland stem from Sebastian Heck [Hack?] andhis wife Anna Maria . Sebastian was born in 1669 Lower Palatine and died 1750 Balligrane Ireland They had 3 known children 1. john Heck born 1703 who married Mary and they had several children Paul Heck,, Sophia Heck ,Jacob and John Heck.

John Heck born 1725 married Christina Lawrence

Paul Heck 1730-1796 Trooper in war Loyalist married Barbara Ruckle [Ruttle] Barbara Heckis credited with being the mother of Methodism in America and Canada Jacob Heck born cir 1732 moved to the Oliver Estate and then emigrated to Colonial New York and had two sons Paul and john.

Sophia Heck born 1742 died 1810 Edwardsburg Ontario married John Dulmage s/ of Jacob Dolmetsch and Margarata Embury .John Dulmage born 1738 Ballingrane Ireland died 1813 Edwardsburg Ontario was one of the first Palatine families to arrived in America from Ireland. His father Jacob and second wife Anna Barbara Switzer later joined him and Jacob died in 1781 Albany New York