Hauch/Jacquillard Family History

Anna Sophia Blair (1878-1972)

This project traces the ancestry of Judy’s mother’s mother’s mother’s parents, William & Sophia (Jaquillard) Hauch. Judy got off to an excellent start in December 1971 when she went to visit her mother’s great-aunt, Anna Sophia Blair, daughter of Andrew Marshall Blair and Emma Magdalena (née Hauch), and granddaughter of William and Sophia. Anna was the family historian, and at age 93 she was happy to hand off the responsibilities to Judy. She let Judy borrow and copy her notes, which you can read yourself by clicking on the link below. Anna died within a year of Judy’s visit. Judy regards her as a family history heroine.

Click here to view a transcript and a photocopy of Anna Sophia Blair’s Hauch family notes.

William and Sophia (Jaquillard) Hauch, of Newark, NJ, in the 1800s

William Hauch (1823-1906)

William Henry Joseph Hauch was born Franz Georg Wilhelm Haug on 6 January 1823 in Oppau, Bavaria, Germany—the illegimate son of Luisa Haug, of Löchgau, Württemberg, Germany, raised as a foster child by Katherina Riede and her husband (we don't yet know his name). William came to America in 1845 and married Sophia Jaquillard in New York City (probably), in 1847. He and Sophia raised a large family—four sons (who reached adulthood) and five daughters—in Newark, NJ. He worked for the John Buttikofer piano-forte company in New York City from perhaps the time he arrived in America until the day he retired, a period of almost fifty years, we think. Our story of William Hauch and his family is based on records and on stories passed down in the family to William Hauch’s granddaughters, two of whom (her grandmother and Anna Sophia Blair) Judy interviewed in the 1970’s.

Read our full story of William & Sophia (Jaquillard) Hauch . . .

Project contributions

12 Feb. 2011: Christine Hanselmann has contributed pictures of William Hauch Jr. (1848-1911), his wife Mary Julia (nee Reilly) Hauch (1853-1940), and the two of them much later at Coney Island. You can find these on our William and Sophia (Jaquillard) Hauch Family Pictures page.

6 Mar. 2011: Elaine (Hauch) Raines, a descendant of William Hauch’s son Edward, has contributed some wonderful new records, including:
  1) An 1857 letter to Wilhelm Hauch from his foster mother, Katherina Riede, in Oppau.
  2) Photocopies of the actual family records pages from the William Hauch family Bible.
  3) A photocopy of Wilhelm Hauch’s own original 1852 naturalization certificate.

24 May 2011: We’ve heard from William McClafferty, who while looking for information on his great-great-grandfather William Befuhs stumbled upon the 1857 letter on our web site, the one to William Hauch from his fostermother, Katharina Riede. William has provided new and interesting information concerning Carl Befuhs, mentioned in theletter, whose wife was another Katherina Riede!  Click here to read about all the interesting new connections.

5 May 2017: Two years ago we received an Ancestry.com tip on the origins of Sophie Jaquillard. We believe this turned out to be a good lead, and it led further (we believe) to a fairly full ancestral tree. You can read all about this via our article "Sophie Jaquillard's origins and ancestry".

Other articles:

Family sheet for William Hauch / Sophia Jaquillard family, by Conrad and Judy Terrill, 2 Jan 2023

William Hauch's origins and ancestry, by Judy and Conrad Terrill, 21 Jan. 2011

Sophie Jaquillard's origins and ancestry, by Judy and Conrad Terrill, 5 May 2017

William and Sophia (Jaquillard) Hauch Family Pictures

The Buttikofer Piano-Forte Company

Records:

The civil birth registration record for William Hauch (Franz Georg Wilhelm Haug), transcribed and translated by the staff of the LDS FHL, Salt Lake City, UT, 27 Oct. 2010

The baptism record for William Hauch (Franciscus Georgius Wilhelmus Haug), transcribed and translated by Conrad Terrill, 20 Jan. 2011

Letter to William Hauch from Catherine Riede, of Oppau, 4 Nov. 1857, translated by an unknown person, provided by courtesy of Elaine (Hauch) Raines in 2011.(PDF, 2.5 MB)

Records History for William & Sophia (Jaquillard) Hauch family, by Judy Devaney Terrill, 13 Mar. 2010. A list of all the records we have collected pertaining to this family, in chronological order.


If you wish to contribute information, pictures, or whatever to our project we'd be very happy to hear from you. Conrad at cwterrill@comcast.net.