From: "Evan R. Thompson" To: Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 01:00:16 -0500 Subject: Ocobock Message-ID: I am a descendant of Anna (Occabock) Lozaw, b. ca. 1795 in Morris Co., NJ and probably a dau. of David & Sarah (Hopler) Occabock of Morris Co. There is an early 1823 Morris Co. deed naming both my Francis and Anna (Occabock) Lozaw as well as "Peter Occabock and Hannah his wife of Cayuga, NY." When we realized that there were possible Ocobock relatives in Cayuga Co., NY, a cousin of mine went to Auburn and looked up Ocobock names in the county records. One of the earliest deeds is dated 23 Sep 1815 and has Peter & Hannah Ocobock buying land from a George Ocobock in Owasco, Cayuga, There is also a March 1831 deed in which an Adam Ocobock sold 25 acres to a George Ocobock. In the Melrose or Porter Cem. in Owasco, Cayuga, NY there is a tombstone for George Ocobock; he died 15 Jun 1856 aged 70 yrs. This puts his birth at 1786; perhaps he is a brother to my Anna (Occabock) Lozaw, and possibly a brother of Peter Ocobock? There are also a number of MILLERs in this cemetery; MILLER was also a common Morris Co. name. I noticed that your Adam OCOBOCK married a Mary. I am not sure if any of this helps, but it is possible that we are both related to the same family. I suspect that the name was once Achenbach or something similar to that. There were some Achenbachs in Bergen Co., NJ. It is a difficult name to search for as it can be spelled so many ways. I seem to be related to every odd surname in New Jersey - Lozaw/Losaw, Genung/Ganung, Occabock/Ocobock/Achenbach, Rorback/Rohrbach. New Jersey certainly was a melting pot even in the colonial period, with French, Dutch and German families marrying into the English families within a generation or two of arrival in the New World.