Ancestors of Margaret Norris Heinek and Robert Heinek
(Microfilm)

Microfilm of typescript, ms., and printed materials collection (part photocopy, ca. 360 leaves) loaned for filming by Margaret Heinek, New Carlisle, Indiana.

Chiefly pedigree charts and family group sheets.

Margaret Frances Norris was born in 1921 at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, the daughter of Charles William and Dora Ida Jane Willis Norris. She married Robert Heinek in 1943 at Chicago, Illinois. Charles William Norris was born in 1886 at Portland, Maine, the son of George William Norris (1856-ca. 1905) and Annie M. York Norris (1854-1939). He married Dora Ida Jane Willis Hopewell in 1920 at Ashville, North Carolina. He died in 1965 at LaPorte, Indiana. Dora Ida Jane Willis was born in 1885 in Mitchell County, North Carolina, the daughter of Stephen Zebulon Willis (1860-1938) and Harriet Margaret Tolley Willis (1862-1912). She married 1) Harry Hopewell and 2) Charles William Norris. She died in 1960 at Hudson Lake, LaPorte County, Indiana.

Ancestors include George M. Norris (1809-1837 of Boston, Massachusetts); John Wallis (ca. 1632-1690 of Cornwall, England, and Gloucester, Massachusetts); John G. York (1823-1874, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and Salem, Massachusetts); Benjamin Willis (ca. 1765-1835 of North Carolina); William Wilson, ca. 1765-1817 of Wales and Buncumbe County, North Carolina; and John Tolley (1814-1876 of North Carolina).

Robert Heinek was born in 1919 at Chicago, Illinois, the son of Janos (John) and Irma Marie Pavelka Heinek. He married Margaret Frances Norris in 1943 at Chicago. Janos Heinek was born in 1889 at FalsaNana, Kety, Hungary, the son of Johan Heinek (1864-after 1918) and Elizabeth Lehning Heinek (1866-after 1945). He immigrated to the United States in 1905 and settled first in Wisconsin. He married Irma Marie Pavelka at Chicago in 1913. They had three sons, 1915-1919. He died at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana, in 1971. Irma Marie Pavelka was born in Hungary in 1892, the daughter of Stephen and Katherine Zyonar Pavelka. She died in 1982 at Hudson Lake, LaPorte County, Indiana.