I am posting this information from Sue Maier in case someone has missed
information on PA/NJ Cobole/Cable family.
I have not seen the article from Palatines to America. If anyone has copy I
would like to see it.
Judy Ullman
The following is from Sue Maier:
The best source of information about the Cobole family so far is an
article titled "Early Catholic Immigrants to New Jersey Iron Mills," by
the German genealogist Walter Petto. It was published (in English) in
the Spring 1991 edition (vol. 16, no. 1) of "The Palatine Immigrant,"
the quarterly journal of Palatines to America, Capital Univ. Box 101,
Columbus, OH 43209-2394. According to Mr. Petto, the history of the
Coboles extends back to 1700, when a workman named Jean Gobelet, who was
originally from Charneux (in the section of Belgium known as Wallonia),
was hired to work at an ironworks in Germany's Rhine River region.
In 1710, Jean Coble married Anna Elisabeth Koeffer; the couple had seven
children baptized in the Weitersbach area. The oldest was Gerard Phillip
(bapt. 1710), who married three times and had 15 children in total.
Gerard Phillip and his first wife, Anna Barbara Graeff, married in 1737.
They had 10 children, among them three sons who went to New Jersey to
work at Peter Hasenclever's ironworks. The sons were:
1) Johannes (Johann Peter) COBOLE (bapt. 1738), who married Anna Maria
(Catharina) KAUFMANN in 1763. Five of their six children (John, John
James, Ann Elizabeth, Catherine and David) are listed in the NJ Catholic
Church baptismal records; the oldest, Johann Bartholomeus, is not
because he was born and baptized in Germany in 1764.
2) Johann Bartholomeus (Bartholomew) COBOLE (bapt. 1743), who married
Mary Ann WALTER at Long Pond, NJ, in 1774. Two of their children (Anna
Catherine, Henry) were baptized at Long Pond.
3) Johann Daniel COBOLE (bapt. 1745, who married Mary Ann WELCKER at
Charlotteburg in 1768. Four of their children (Anna Barbara, Anna Eva,
Mary Ann, and Catherine) appear in the NJ Catholic Church baptismal
records.
Finally, Mr. Petto has found evidence that both Bartholomew and Daniel
COBOLE left New Jersey for Pennsylvania in the late 1770s with a small
group led by William and Christian Butz. There, Mr. Petto says, some
members of the family changed the name to COVELY.
I recommend contacting Palatines to America and purchasing a copy of Mr.
Petto's article. I don't think they charge very much, and the article
provides far more detail than I can in this synopsis.