The Fincks continued...

Alderman Frederick Finck & his wife, Marie Antoinette, had seven children. The middle child was Emily (1864-1924). I have found Emily listed in the 1880 census residing with her family at 196 Eldridge Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. On November 16, 1887 she married Richard William Elliott (1858-?). This branch of the family has been one of the most interesting to research. There is a lot of history here and some confusion, so pay attention! *wink wink*

Richard Elliott comes from a well-to-do family from Detroit, Michigan. There is a cemetery there that is full of their family. Richard's father, Robert. T. Elliott (1795 -1864), came to Detroit as one of the area's first formally educated architects. He was a Major in the US Army (Michigan 16th Infantry Regiment) & a Civil War hero who died in battle in 1864 at Topoptomy Creek, VA. Robert had a brother, William, who was a US Army Captain who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Another of Robert's brothers, Walter Hackett Elliott (1842-1928), also served during the Civil War with the Fifth Ohio Voluteers. He was a promising attorney in Cincinatti when he followed a calling into the priesthood.  He became a well known Paulist missionary and was a faculty member of Catholic University in Washington DC.
(http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2011/05/father-walter-elliott-c-s-p-1842-1928-union-army-veteran.html)

If I have this all correct.... Robert Elliott also had a daughter, Elizabeth Ann (1828-1916), Richard's older sister by many years. She married into another prominent Detroit family when she married James Edwin Eagle. The Eagle's have a long family history dating back into pre-Revolutionary War time. James & Elizabeth had a daughter, Margaret Alice (1864-1948). That name might sound familiar since she was the wife of Henry Ulrich Finck (married 5 years after Emily & Richard's wedding), who I wrote about in the previous Finck family post. Can we assume that they met at the wedding?

Emily and Richard's wedding was noted in several society pages of the day. It took place at St Augustine's Chapel at East Houston St & 2 Avenue and was officiated by Rev. Arthur Kimber. Best man was Harry Eagle and George & Henry Finck were ushers. Reception was held at the Finck residence on Eldridge St.

Richard was a very successful real estate broker. He & Emily resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, including West End Ave, until Emily died. They had 2 daughters, Marie Antoinette (1889-1984) and Emily Maude (1893- ?). Marie, high society debutante, married William Greville Birkett (1880-1963) of Derbyshire, England in 1933 at 43 years old. Marie was a graduate of the Convent of the Sacred Heart & Institute of Musical Art. The family owned an estate called Gray Rocks in Clinton, CT., where she apparently met William, who is listed as a "motor engineer" on his WW1 registration card. He died in Clinton, CT in 1963. She passed away in 1984 in Huntington Station, NY. Possibly living with her niece.

Emily Maude is also a high society girl listed in several newspapers when she has a "surprise marriage" to Joseph Bradford Carr (1893-1915) of Troy, NY, in December 1913. Carr also comes from a prominent family. His grandfather, Joseph Bradford Carr (1828-1895), was a Major General in the US Army & served during the Civil War. He later became the Secretary of State of NY. Married at the Methodist Episcopal Church in North Troy, they lived in upstate NY. They later had a reception at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. In July 1914, their daughter Natalie Elliott Carr (1914-1999) was born. Unfortunately, the next year Joseph died at the young age of 22, two months before Natalie's first birthday.

Joseph Bradford Carr

Emily and Natalie moved back to NYC and lived with Emily's parents till at least 1930, as listed on the census at 64 East 86 St. In 1933, Natalie makes headlines in the national news as a student at Vassar College. She vanished from the school for a week until she notified her family that she had entered a convent in Canada. She stayed at the convent for about a year before returning to Vassar, where she graduated. In 1936, she married Walter Burke Coll (1906-1981) but was divorced a few years later. Walter died in 1981 in Clinton, Ct. (Remember Gray Rocks?) Natalie remarried to Theodore Roosevelt Hoisington (1912-1997) of Rye, NY.

I am still researching this fascinating branch and making new family connections, but this is what I have discovered and believe to be true so far... Natalie & Walter Coll had four children: Joseph, Richard, I. Ashely, and Marjorie. Richard was a doctor who passed away in 2003 who was married to Joan Hannigan Coll Ph. D.,  a professor at Seton Hall University. Ashley is a talented artist & illustrator whose work can be seen here: http://www.ashleycoll.com . And Marjorie was married to orthopedic surgeon Michael Prepon, who passed away in 1993 at 49 years old. Marjorie & Michael had 4 children. You may have seen my third cousin Laura Prepon on television as Donna on "That 70's Show" and the modern day hit "Orange is the New Black". Who knew?

 

Laura Prepon

Natalie & Theodore also had a son, Samuel Hoisington, who is also an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Hawthorne, NY... still waiting to hear from him!