Father: John HOYE***
b: 13 AUG 1774 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 02 JUN 1849 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
Mother: Mary CALMES***
b: 1776 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 1832 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland

Marriage: Ann KEEGAN***
b: 1800 in Slane, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 1870 in Webster, Worcester, MA
Married: 1821 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland

Immigration: Richard HOEY family, Arrived Boston 4 SEP 1846 on the ship 'Albania' with: Mrs. 50, John 24, Christianna 21, Thomas 18, William 16, Catharine 11, Michael 9, Richard 7, James 3, Matthew infant.

Richard HOEY Sr. - the family patriarch, born in Brannockstown Cross, Trim Parish, County Meath, Ireland, (some 20 miles southwest of Dublin); brought the family to Boston in the first year of Great potato famine. Richard's sister, Mary Hoey DOLAN, lived in Abington. The death records of both siblings list "John and Mary" as their parents.
The Hoeys found employment in New England's shoe mills and settled in Natick and in Webster. Throughout the 1850s the children had educational advantages their parents never had and started large families of their own. Ultimately Richard and Ann HOEY had 69 known grandchildren.

US CENSUS: 1850 Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts

Naturalization: 1853: Richard HOEY, Sr., now living in Saxonville (an area of Framingham, MA) is naturalized in Boston.

US CENSUS: 1860 Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts

1861-1865: The Civil War. All eight HOEY sons as well as the first two grandsons enlist in the armed forces. Several are wounded and captured; the eldest and youngest, John and Lawrence, both die in Confederate prison camps in 1865.

Children:
John Frederick HOEY, Sr.***
b: 01 FEB 1822 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 27 FEB 1865 in Cedar Creek, Frederick Co., Virginia
Cause of death: pneumonia.
Marriage: Ellen Kane NEAL***

Christiana HOEY
b: 18 NOV 1823 in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
d: 18 MAR 1878 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Cause of death: Exposure to cold.
Marriage1: William James YOUNG
b: 1825 in Ireland
Married: 1848 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA
Marriage2: Thomas James FITZSIMMONS
b: 20 APR 1828 in Co. Meath, Ireland
(son of John FITZSIMMONS and Mary LYNCH)
d: 20 JAN 1906 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Cause of death: Heart disease.
Married: 1855 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Mary Frances HOEY
b: 09 NOV 1824 in Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 31 AUG 1890 in Webster, Worcester, MA
Cause of death: Heart Failure.
Marriage: Gottfried BILLIG
b: 14 JUN 1821 in Thuringen, Prussia, Germany (son of Matthew BILLIG and Maria KLARET)
(emigrated to U.S. 2 JUL 1845)
d: 15 JUN 1893 in Webster, Worcester, MA
Married: 19 JAN 1848 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA

Thomas HOEY
b: 1829 in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
d: 29 NOV 1889 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Cause of death: Stroke, Paralysis.
Marriage: Winifred McGLONE
b: 1828 in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
d: 04 Jan 1899 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Married: 08 OCT 1849 in Framingham, Middlesex, MA

William HOEY
b: 1830 in Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 24 JAN 1894 in Thompson, Windam, CT
Marriage: Rose SMITH
b: AUG 1832 in Ireland
Married: 23 SEP 1854 in Dudley, Worcester, MA

Catharine (Kate) HOEY
b: 31 MAR 1834 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 19 AUG 1877 in Dudley, Worcester, MA
Cause of death: Typhoid fever
Marriage: James B. KERWIN (Curwin)
b: 1822 in Ireland
d: 13 MAY 1888 in Worcester, Worcester, MA
Married: 1854 in Natick, Middlesex, MA

Michael Joseph HOEY
b: 09 MAY 1835 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
d: 17 JUL 1872 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Cause of death: Typhoid fever

Richard HOEY
b: 1839 in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
d: 21 AUG 1899 in Webster, Worcester, MA

James E. HOEY
b: 21 JUN 1843 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
d: 17 OCT 1901 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
burial: Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marriage: Margaret JORDAN
(dau. of Michael and Mary JORDAN)
b: OCT 1847 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine
Married: 08 OCT 1867 in Boston, Suffolk, MA

Matthew J. HOEY
b: 23 SEP 1844 in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
d: 14 MAY 1929 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Marriage: Mary J. O'NEIL
b: 29 NOV 1846 in Framingham, Middlesex, MA d: 1 OCT 1930 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Married: 12 FEB 1866 in Natick, Middlesex, MA

Lawrence Gilbert HOEY
b: 1846 in Webster, Worcester, MA
d: 22 JAN 1865 in Salisbury, Rowan Co., North Carolina
Cause of death: Starvation, P.O.W.