This might be a stretch, but the names surely look familiar to the COBLE line. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theresa Yeakel" <TYeakel@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 11:59 PM ================== > Source: COVELY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Covely's in Pennsylvania > > > I received this information from Susan Maier when she read a message posted > on the internet. > > Walter Petto was looking into genealogical information about the > ironworkers who lived in Long Pond and other New Jersey iron mills. He > wrote an article in The Palantine Immigrant, vol. 16, #1, Spring 1991. It > was called "Early Catholic Immigrants to New Jersey Iron Mills." > > In this article, he traced a Covely family back to the late 1600s. He > wrote that a Jean Gobelet, from Charneux, now known as Wallonia, Belgium, > went to work in the Rhine River Region in 1700. In 1710, Jean Coble (now a > different spelling) married Anna Elisabeth Koeffer. They had 7 children > baptized in the Weitersbach area. One child Gerard Phillip Coble (bapt. > 1710) married three times and had 15 children. His first wife was Anna > Barbara Graeff whom he married in 1737. They had 10 children. Three of > these sons are believed to have come to America in New Jersey to work at > Peter Hasenclever's ironworks. > Son # 1 > Johannes Peter Cobole (now a different spelling) who was baptized in 1738 > married a Maria Kaufmann in 1763. They had children: John, John James, > Ann Elizabeth, Catharine, and David. These were baptized in New Jersey. > Johann Bartholomeus, another child, was baptized in Germany. > Son #2 > Johann Bartholomew Cobole married Mary Ann Walter at Long Pond, New Jersey > in 1774. He had children: Anna Catharine and Henry who were baptized at > Long Pond. > Son # 3 > Johann Daniel Cobole who was baptized 1745 married Mary Ann Welcker at > Charlotteburg or Charlottenburg in 1768. They had children: Ann Barbara, > Anna Eva, Mary Ann, and Catharine. They were all baptized in New Jersey. > > Bartholmew and Daniel (Johann Bartholomew and Johann Daniel) traveled with > William and Christian Butz to Pennsylvania (Goshenhoppen, now Berks County) > to start a new ironworks in the late 1770s. This ironmill closed down in > the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. They also, supposedly, changed > their names to Covely. > > Petto got a lot of his information from the Goshenhoppen Registers, > 1741-1819. Ms. Maier said that a copy of Petto's article could probably be > gotten from the Palatines to America, Capital University, Box 101, > Columbus, Ohio 43209-2394 > > Susanna Yeakel