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Mary Hoffman

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Mary Hoffman was a daughter of George Hoffman, the Standard Oil stillman who came from Germany in the 1860s, and Rosine Antretner. She is recorded as one of their three children and nothing more about her is known — not a date, not a marriage, not a burial.

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Mary Hoffman was a daughter of George Hoffman, the Standard Oil stillman who came from Germany in the 1860s, and Rosine Antretner. She is recorded as one of their three children and nothing more about her is known — not a date, not a marriage, not a burial.

How is this person related?

Andrew John Leahey’s great-grandparent's sibling

Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.

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What is not known yet: No dated life events or original records have been connected to this page. Nothing has been guessed to fill the gaps.

How this person is related to Andrew:
Mary Hoffman is your great-grandparent’s sibling.

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  • Germany

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A Stillman in Bayonne’s Oil Works

George Hoffman’s 1900 census entry calls him a “Stillman Oil Refinery” and places his family at 36 West 23rd Street in Bayonne. His 1915 funeral entry still gives his occupation as “stillman.” That was not a su…

What we still don't know

  • [PRIVACY FLAG CORRECTED] This person was marked as possibly living, which suppressed everything about them. Nothing in their record refers to any year after 1861, so they cannot be alive: even somebody born in that year would be over a hundred and ten now. The flag was a default that had never been revisited, and it was hiding a nineteenth-century person as though they were a contemporary.

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