My dear Grandmother whom I never met was Annie Bove Gansberg who died at 27! We are full of Aunt Kates and Aunt Veronicas (one called "Fronie" or perhaps "Vronie") and Uncle Johnnies!

It seems logical, from the names, that our families were living near each other in the area of Ullendorf (?),Dollendorf and Ahrhutte villages, Diocese of Cologne, Germany (near the Belgian border in an area of Germany known as The Eifel) before emigrating to the US .... and that they were surely related.

Perhaps your emigrant ancestor, John, was the brother of my emigrant g.g.g.grandfather, but at this point I cannot place my hand on the names of the brothers of my g.g.g.grandfather, Peter Joseph Bove b. 1795 in Arhutte. We have the data in the family, though, through the parish in Dollendorf where I visited and got the ball rolling and it now goes back to the turn of the 1600s with documentation, I think.

Peter's children were George Frederick, John, Anna Catherine, Anna Gertrude, Anna Catherine Veronica, and Hubert...and all came together to the US in 1851, on a voyage originating in nearby Antwerp, Belgium, with young George's wife and children and settled in Hudson County, NJ.

Peter's son George had more children in the US. Son John married some years later in NJ and had children, also. The girls and Hubert all entered religious orders in the U.S., and those religious orders have provided our family researchers with a bountiful harvest of genealogical data from their archives.

If you will go back to my message "Hi Cousin!" on this message board, posted within the last month, and then post to that woman - Pat M. - she can help you far better than I can, as my charts are currently packed away. Give her the data you have. Tell her I sent you, if you like!

My recollection is that Pat M. is descended from Peter Bove's immigrant son John (perhaps named for your own John Bove) .... while I am descended from Peter's immigrant son George, through his first American-born child, Hubert Bove.

Anyway, Pat M. has all the charts and info and is very warm and willing to help all.

Good Luck! Hope we can match it up!

Maureen