The original German spelling BOHLI, it's meaning was "plank roadway", or in a name, "one who builds a plank roadway", or possibly a "logger". According to a German professor at the Mt. St. Mary Seminary in Norwood, Ohio, it was common for a final e to change to i in names, usually a result of a French or Swiss variant.
Christian's father, Landelin, was born in Germany & relocated to Lorotto in western PA near St. Michael's Parish, a primary seat of German & Irish Catholic migration from 1800-1830. Christian was born in PA. About 1840, the family moved to Somerset, OH where St. Joseph's was a similar parish.
Christian was the oldest of six known siblings. They lived in Pike Twp., Perry Co. in 1850. He had at least 8 children.
His son, Clem, hosted the great Boley-Bowe Family Reunion of 1924 in Lancaster, Ohio, that Christian attended (attached) and many of he & his wife's descendants attended.
Supposedly abt 1961, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper ran an article re: Christian giving horses to the Confederates so they would leave the rest of his property alone during the Civil War, but could not locate.
Christian's father, Landelin, was born in Germany & relocated to Lorotto in western PA near St. Michael's Parish, a primary seat of German & Irish Catholic migration from 1800-1830. Christian was born in PA. About 1840, the family moved to Somerset, OH where St. Joseph's was a similar parish.
Christian was the oldest of six known siblings. They lived in Pike Twp., Perry Co. in 1850. He had at least 8 children.
His son, Clem, hosted the great Boley-Bowe Family Reunion of 1924 in Lancaster, Ohio, that Christian attended (attached) and many of he & his wife's descendants attended.
Supposedly abt 1961, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper ran an article re: Christian giving horses to the Confederates so they would leave the rest of his property alone during the Civil War, but could not locate.
The original German spelling BOHLI, it's meaning was "plank roadway", or in a name, "one who builds a plank roadway", or possibly a "logger". According to a German professor at the Mt. St. Mary Seminary in Norwood, Ohio, it was common for a final e to change to i in names, usually a result of a French or Swiss variant.
Christian's father, Landelin, was born in Germany & relocated to Lorotto in western PA near St. Michael's Parish, a primary seat of German & Irish Catholic migration from 1800-1830. Christian was born in PA. About 1840, the family moved to Somerset, OH where St. Joseph's was a similar parish.
Christian was the oldest of six known siblings. They lived in Pike Twp., Perry Co. in 1850. He had at least 8 children.
His son, Clem, hosted the great Boley-Bowe Family Reunion of 1924 in Lancaster, Ohio, that Christian attended (attached) and many of he & his wife's descendants attended.
Supposedly abt 1961, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper ran an article re: Christian giving horses to the Confederates so they would leave the rest of his property alone during the Civil War, but could not locate.
Christian's father, Landelin, was born in Germany & relocated to Lorotto in western PA near St. Michael's Parish, a primary seat of German & Irish Catholic migration from 1800-1830. Christian was born in PA. About 1840, the family moved to Somerset, OH where St. Joseph's was a similar parish.
Christian was the oldest of six known siblings. They lived in Pike Twp., Perry Co. in 1850. He had at least 8 children.
His son, Clem, hosted the great Boley-Bowe Family Reunion of 1924 in Lancaster, Ohio, that Christian attended (attached) and many of he & his wife's descendants attended.
Supposedly abt 1961, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper ran an article re: Christian giving horses to the Confederates so they would leave the rest of his property alone during the Civil War, but could not locate.
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