Robert Heterick or Hettrick

[hetricksj]

I am researching a Robert Hetrick/Heterick/Hettrick.  Robert was an educator at the University of Edinburgh and the family postulates that prior to travelling to the US, he may have been involved with the Peel School on the Isle of Man.  Does anyone know of this school or a way to investigate this claim.  This would have been between 1780 and 1784.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Frances_mnb]

there were three schools he could have been at - see http://www.manxnotebook.com/fulltext/ch1831/gn.htm - though more likely he was at mathematical school - all teachers at the other schools would need to be licenced by the Bishop and there should be records to verify this - try Manx National Heritage library at manx Museum enquiries [at] mnh.gov.im - however I appear to have no record of him on my site

[Frances_mnb]

There is a jane Hetterick (several diff spellings in baptismal reg) who married John Corkan at Patrick 18090212 (Ketterick in Igi) - Patrick is just down road from Peel  - in 1851 she is a widow at Knockaloe beg (visible from my window in Peel) and born Peel - suspect buried Peel (German) 18761126 age 92 - I can't find any matching baptism however but the likely year of birth matches your date

Jane might be the illeg dau of Margt Welch - bapt Patrick 17850116 - no father given (tho this info might be available from either Bishops Transcripts or more likely presentments which are currently being indexed by volunteers at Manx museum (try enquiries [at] mnh.gov.im), Manx knew illegs by their father's name - it is possible that Margt Welch married in 1800 James Irvin but I can't find her burial or in the 1841c

[hetricksj]

There is a jane Hetterick (several diff spellings in baptismal reg) who married John Corkan at Patrick 18090212 (Ketterick in Igi) - Patrick is just down road from Peel  - in 1851 she is a widow at Knockaloe beg (visible from my window in Peel) and born Peel - suspect buried Peel (German) 18761126 age 92 - I can't find any matching baptism however but the likely year of birth matches your date

Jane might be the illeg dau of Margt Welch - bapt Patrick 17850116 - no father given (tho this info might be available from either Bishops Transcripts or more likely presentments which are currently being indexed by volunteers at Manx museum (try enquiries [at] mnh.gov.im), Manx knew illegs by their father's name - it is possible that Margt Welch married in 1800 James Irvin but I can't find her burial or in the 1841c

Very interesting.  The family story is that Robert Heterick arrived in Pennsylvania, USA about 1784; but I have no hard evidence of the date.  It is, however coincident with the dates you've provided.  He was noted to have been an avide teacher of Latin in two different schools in the US (one in Pennsylvania and the other in Virginia).  Supposedly his teaching method required his students to speak only Latin in his classroom.

[TrishCr]

Robert Heterick is my 4 x G Grandfather. He fathered a child with Margaret Walsh; Jane Ketterick b: 1785. Jane married John Corkan and their son Robert Corkan arrived in Australia prior to his marriage in Sydney in 1853. I am descended from this line. I have Robert Hetericks parents as William Heterick and M Hunter.