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#G40 BUBECKHOFFER, John Michael and #G41 VOGLER, Christina Elizabeth

John Michael Bubeckhoffer:

Born: (chr) 22 Feb 1758, St. John's Angl Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Died:  (burial) 15 Feb 1833, Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Father: John Peter BUBICKHOFFER #G80 (1718-28 Jun 1789)
Mother: Sabina Catherine HIMMELMAN #G81 (1725-28 Oct 1800)

Married: 13 Dec 1781 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to Christina Elizabeth VOGLER #G41 (20 Oct 1760-?). They had 12 children.

Christina Elizabeth Vogler:

Born: 20 Oct. 1760, of West Dublin, Nova Scotia
Died: Unknown

Father: Johann Henrick VOGLER #G82 (1724-?)
Mother: Anna Elizabeth Whalter (Walter/Walters)

Children:
1.  Maria Catharina BUBIKOFFER (b. 10 Feb 1783, chr 21 Mar 1783-?), m abt 1804 MOREASH. (PANS: Lutheran Registry, 1772-1825, p. 71.)
2. Johann Heinrich BUBBIKOFER 9b 9 Jul 1784, chr 5 Sep 1784-abt 1813). (Same source as above, p. 75. IGI 7708320, Sheet 55, FHL 1059090) Harris Publicover says he was murdered in Halifax by a drunken soldier.
3. Johann Peter BUBIKOFFER (b 5 Apr 1786, chr 7 May1786-1811), m 1811 Mary Ann MARTIN. (Same PANS source, p. 85) Publicover Family Tree says married Martin from Boston, United Empire Loyalist. Cannon Harris gives Mary Ann Martin as wife.
4. Johnann Conrad BUBBIKOFFER (b 28 Sep 1787, chr 18 Nov 1787-abt 1864), m 4 Jan 1816 Julia MARTIN. (Same PANS source, p 93.) Harris Publicover says Conrad was md to Julia Martin, sister of Jane and lived in Blandford and died in 1864. Donald Gray reports that Julia is also a Loyalist from Boston. See below for biographical incident of both Conrad and Peter.
5. Johann Frederick BUBBIKOFFER (b 12 Jul 1789, chr 15 Sep 1789-abt 1852), m 1813 Catherine Elizabeth GOETZ. (Same PANS source, p 104.)  Cannon Harris notes   gives b yerar and md Catherine Goetz of Jacob. IGI 7708320, Sheet 54, FHL 1059090.
6. Elizabeth BUBBIKOFFER (b 26 Jul 1791, chr 12 Apr 1782-abt 1812), m abt 1812 William CROOKS. (Same PANS source, p 111 or 118.)  Harris Publicover says she married William Crooks and lived for a time at Blandford, later moving to Peggys Cove where their descendants still live (in 1954.)
*7. Johann Michael BUBBIKOFFER #G20  (b 28 Aug 1793, chr 16 Nov 1793-abt 1864), m 13 Nov 1817 Elizabeth HAWBOLT. (Same PANS source, p 93.) See link for biographical and source information.
8. Johannes BUBBIKOFFER (b 19 Jun 1795, chr 11 Oct 1795-?), m 30 Dec 1822 Amelia BEAMISH. (Same PANS source, p 137.)  Harris Publicover says he md "Milly Beamish, daughter of an England Remittance man who lived at Blandford. Cannon Harris gives birth year and name of wife as Amelia Beamish.
9. Johann Christopher PUBLICOVER (1797-?) This name shows up in information from Donald Gray. A question regarding two Christophers.
10. Maria Regina BUBBIKOFFER (b 23 Jun 1798, chr 12 Aug 1798-?) (PANS Lutheran   Registry, 1772-1825, p. 4)  Harris Publicover says  "very little known about her, believed to have married in Halifax." Publicover Family Tree calls her Margaret.  In Cannon Harris notes. Also IGI Batch 7708320, Sheet 53. FHL 1059090.
11. Margaretha BUBBIKOFFER (b 19 Jun 1800, chr 19 Sep 1800) (Same PANS source, p. 16.) In Cannon Harris notes.
12. Christopher PUBLICOVER (b 3 Oct 1804, chr 29 Apr 1804), m 30 Dec 1824 Sarah BEAMISH. (Same PANS source, p 30, No. 34.) Harris Publicover says that Christopher "married Sophia Beamish, sister to Milly."
*direct line to Wallace F. Gray

Names spelled as entered in baptismal record.

According to the Publicover Family Tree, the children of Publicover/Vogler up to 1798   are "from records of J.T. Scheifser, Minister of the Gospel, Lunenburg, Aug 27, 1798."

Source for Christina Elizabeth Vogler: Lunenburg Lutheran Registry 118:17/ FHL film 1421430, p 21, gives name of parents and Christina's c date. This film is from the notes of Winhrop Bell. Christina's chr date is listed under the entry on her father.

The Sea Story of Conrad and Peter

A PANS Vertical File MSS entry reports that Peter and brother Conrad went to sea.   Peter was mate, Conrad was super of cargo, both on a vessel trading to the West Indies. In the war of 1812, American privateers caught them on the return trip from the West Indies, took the vessel and crew to Washington where they spent two years in jail until the war ended in 1814. In Boston they met the Martin family who were Loyalists, later forced to come to Nova Scotia. Conrad and Peter married two of the daughters and built a double house at Blandford. Peter sold his property to Conrad and bought 500 acres at Canso. Conrad had one son and four daughters.

This is a traditional story. Scott Winston Teal put this information in his book Presenting the Publicovers which was written in 1986. In a letter to Wallace F. Gray dated May 10, 1997,  he reports that he received evidence to discredit most of the story. He says: "The war of 1812 as far as I know took place in 1812-1815. Peter was married in 1811 and Conrad in 1815. I have also discovered that the Martin sisters were born in Nova Scotia, not Boston. So the Publicover brothers may have been captured during the war but I think the rest of the story has been fabricated over the years (like so many other legends.) Peter's first child was born at Petite Riviere in 1811, evidence that he stayed behind while his father Michael and siblings went to Blandford in 1809. Peter seems to have gone to Blandford about 1812 three years after the rest of the family and then left for Canso in 1820.  Every family tree done on the Publicovers stated that Peter's family died out and I believed that until 1990 when I went to the Massachusetts archives near Boston and discovered the family had left Canso for Gloucester, Mass. His family is quite widespread in the United States."

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