Augusta Caroline Louise (Streich) Loock (1858 - 1907)

Born 9 Apr 1858 in Büssow, Friedeberg in der Neumark, Brandenburg, Germany

Ancestors

Wife of Carl Eduard Albert Loock — married 24 Mar 1886 in Arnprior, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1907 at age 49 in Arnprior, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Augusta was born in 1858 in Bussow, Brandenburg, Germany. Her parents were Carl Streich and Marie Cargus. She immigrated to Canada in 1861 aboard the ship "Washington" which sailed from Hamburg to Quebec. Her father was one of the pioneer farmers of McNab Township in Renfrew County, Ontario. In addition to her sister Mary, born in Germany, Augusta had two siblings born in Canada, William and Tena. My mother thought there was another child, Henry, but searching the records revealed Henry was the son of a teenage Augusta, who didn't marry the father. She later married Albert Loock and had children with him. Little Henry lived with his grandfather, then his stepfather, then his Uncle William Streich until he was old enough to be on his own. He kept his mother's maiden name but spelled it as it was pronounced, Henry Strike. Sadly, Augusta contracted Typhoid Fever and passed away in 1907.

Sources

• Brandenburg Emigration, 1861, CAROLINE AUGUSTE STREICH, age 2, Kind von Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Bussow/Friedeberg, Destination, Nord-Amerika
• Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934, 15 April 1861
• 1891 Census of Canada, Arnprior, Renfrew, Ontario, Albert Loocke 33, mill hand, Auguste 33, Henry 12, Annie 4, Mary 3, Charles 3/12
• 1901 Census of Canada, Arnprior, Renfrew, Ontario, Albert Laack (LOOCK) 44, lumber shopper, AUGUSTA (Loock) 43, Ann L. (Loock) 14, Mary C. (Loock) 13, Charls H. (Charles H. Loock) 10, Mary C. Streich 70
• Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928, 24 Mar 1886, White Lake Village, Renfrew, Albert Loack (LOOCK) 28, Augusta Striech (STREICH) 28, Baptist
• Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, AUGUSTA LOOCK, Death 9 Nov 1907, Typhoid Fever, 49 years 7 months
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JFDT-F44
• Canada, Find A Grave, Index, 1600s-Current, AUGUSTA L. LOOCK, birth 1858, death 1908, spouse Albert G. Loock, Albert Street Cemetery, Arnprior, Renfrew, Ontario. Note: Augusta's death record states she died Nov 9, 1907. The gravestone has the wrong year of death.