Niklaus BOOHER

                   Nicholas Bucher arrived in Phildelphia on the ship "Friendship" from Rotterdam on Oct 16, 1727 with his wife.  Nicholas Bucher and his wife arrived from Nordingen Barvaria in the USA and settled in Pennsylvania. His wife died in1755 and his 2nd wife was Eleanor b: 1735. Source Boogher Family Later Genealogy. LDS Library. He is listed on the ships passenger list. Women and children and males under the age of 16 were not listed. Since at the time when the ship landed, Nicholas ll would have been only 15 yrs old.  DOB & DOD from the Family Record of David Lehman Booher. THE BOOHER FAMILY--The Booher name was spelled Bucher by the earliest colonists. Alfred Wiffred Dellquest in "These Names of Ours." Crowell 1938, says that it was a Norman-French name meaning Woodhouse from bois, a wood, and that it was pronounced Boo-shay. Other variants are Bouchar, Boucher, Bouger,Bougher, Boogher and Booker........ George Norbury Mackenzie in "Colonial Families of the United States of America" 3.46, states that:  The first of the family of Boogher in America was Nicholas Boogher, Sr. born 1680 in Germany who came over on the Friendship in 1727 and settled in Pensylvania.