| Birth |
24 Nov 1763 |
Pennsylvania [1] |
| Sex |
Male |
| Eby ID |
00025-1970 |
| Person ID |
I15359 |
| Last Modified |
22 Jul 2004 |
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| Family 1 |
Eva Fisher, b. 27 Jun 1777 |
| Married |
1796 |
[2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth Cober, b. 15 Feb 1797 |
| | 2. Rachel Cober, b. 2 Mar 1799 |
| | 3. Peter Cober, b. 21 Aug 1800 |
| | 4. Magdalena Cober, b. 8 Feb 1802 |
| | 5. Mary Cober, b. 29 Apr 1804 |
| | 6. Catharine Cober, b. 4 Apr 1806 |
| | 7. Margaret Cober, b. 15 Mar 1809 |
| | 8. Nicolaus Cober, b. 4 Mar 1811, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario |
| | 9. Susannah Cober, b. 4 Jun 1813 |
| | 10. Jacob Cober, b. 8 Jul 1815 |
| | 11. Barbara Cober, b. 16 Aug 1817 |
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| Group Sheet |
F797 |
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| Notes |
Nicholaus Cober, "from whom all the Cobers in this country are descendants, was born in Pennsylvania, U. S., November 24th, 1763. In 1796 he was married to Eva Fisher who was born June 27th, 1777. In April, 1800, they, with their two children and others, moved to Canada and settled in Vaughan Township, York County, Ontario, about twelve miles north of Toronto. During the first years of their Canadian life they had to contend with numerous hardships and self-denials. In 1810 they had already cleared some eighty acres of their large farm and had erected a comfortable log dwelling and log barn thereon. In course of time the first buildings were replaced by more expensive residences. (Old Mr. Cober must have seen quite a difference in the country from 1800, when it was all forest, until 1840 when York was the Banner County and Toronto the capital of Canada). Mr. and Mrs. Cober raised a family of eleven children, viz:" |
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| Sources |
1. [S1] Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 459 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
2. [S1] Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 459 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
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