Father: Richard HOEY*
b: 15 SEP 1791 in Brannockstown Cross, Trim, Co.Meath, Ireland
Mother: Ann KEEGAN b: 1799 in Slane, Co.Meath, Ireland

Marriage: Gottfried BILLIG
b: 14 JUN 1821 in Euskirchen, Prussia, Germany (son of Matthias BILLIG and Anna Maria KROTT)
(emigrated to U.S. 2 JUL 1845)
d: 15 JUN 1893 in Webster, Worcester, MA
Married: 19 JAN 1848 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA

Mary Frances Hoey was 20 when the Hoeys sailed to Boston on the ship 'Albania' in 1846. In January 1848 she married Prussian shoemaker Gottfried BILLIG in Roxbury, Mass. In the early 1850s the Billigs lived in Poughkeepsie, NY, where sons Philip and Matthew BILLIG were born. By 1857 they were living in Natick, where Godfrey Jr. and Anna BILLIG were born. By 1860 they had settled permanently in Webster, where Catherine BILLIG was born.

Gottfried and Mary BILLIG divorced, and on 05 OCT 1886 Godfrey married 41 year-old Wilhelmina SCHNEIDER in Webster, MA (dau of Gothelf SCHNEIDER and Wilhelmina KEISHER). Mary BILLIG died of heart failure in Webster on 31 AUG 1890 and was buried in Natick.

Massachusetts Vital Records Index:
Last Name First Name Town Years Volume Page Type
Hoy Mary Roxbury 1848 31 160 Marriage

Last Name First Name Town Years Volume Page Type
Billeg Mary Webster 1890 411 558 Death

Children:
Philip H. BILLIG
b: 1852 in Poughkeepsie, NY

Matthew BILLIG
b: 24 FEB 1854 in Poughkeepsie, NY
d: 28 NOV 1913 in Webster, Worcester, MA
Marriage1: Margaret (Maggie) MEEHAN
b: 1858 in Webster, Worcester, MA
d: 18 NOV 1882 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Married: 1876 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Marriage2: Bridget Grady KENNEDY
b: 1860 in Newton, Middlesex, MA
(dau. of Patrick and Bridget KENNEDY)
Married: 25 MAY 1886 in Webster, Worcester, MA

Godfrey BILLIG
b: 1857 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
d: 25 FEB 1908 in Webster, Worcester, MA
Marriage: Maria DONAHOE
b: 1863 in Webster, Worcester, MA
(dau.of John DONAHOE and Ellen POWER)
d: 02 NOV 1905 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage
Married: 30 JUN 1879 in Webster, Worcester, MA

Anna Maria BILLIG
b: 1860 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
d: 30 JUL 1933 in S.Natick, Middlesex, MA
Marriage: William H. DANIHER
b: JAN 1856 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
(son of William DANIHER and Margaret FLANERY)
d: aft 1930 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
Married: 25 DEC 1882 in Natick, Middlesex, MA
by Rev. John Walsh, of St. Patrick's church, Natick

Catherine Ellen (Katie) BILLIG
b: 04 JUN 1862 in Webster, Worcester, MA
d: 29 JAN 1910 in Worcester, Worcester, MA
Marriage1: Jeremiah DONLEY
Marriage2: Thomas PROUT
b: 1855 in Dudley, Worcester, MA
(son of Edward Prout and Bridget SMITH)
Married: 30 APR 1883 in Dudley, Worcester, MA