Notes on Boucher - Poucher - Bautzer - Bautser - Bauscher Families of New York State

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Location: New York, United States
Surnames/tags: boucher bautzer poucher

Notes on Boucher - Poucher - Bautzer - Bautser - Bauscher Families of New York

This page is created for compilation of miscellaneous information and notes regarding families with surnames Boucher, Poucher, Bautzer, Bautser, Bauscher and other name variants who lived in what is now upstate New York in the 1700s and later.

Family lore reported in The Boucher Family genealogy

Source: The Boucher family (Bowsher, Bauscher, Bausher, Bousher) -- Comprising a genealogy of branches of Strawn, Harpster, Tedrow, Cryder, Reichelderfer, Critchfield, Stahl, Straw, Brant and other families. Descendants of Daniel Boucher of Albany township, Berks county, Pa. Notes of other Boucher families. Henry Boucher descendants (Indiana, Pa.) A brief history of the Ohio reunions of kindred families. Compiled by Franklin A. Burkhardt. New York city, Press of F. E. Burkhardt, 1917.

These New York families were not a focus of this book, but some notes are found in the "Notes of other Boucher families" section:

Page "In 1903 Dr. Wilson Poucher, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., wrote that his ancestor in this country was Simon Boucher, a French Huguenot, who came to New York in 1658. He states that sons, Peter or Pierre, and James or Jacques, were located at Claverack, N . Y., prior to 1750 . Pierre Boucher had a son, Jacob Boucher, whose son Anthony, or Antoine, was grandfather of the writer, Dr. J. Wilson Poucher."

I have not found any information about Simon Boucher. Smith-62120 19:46, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

"In 1903 a letter came from Nelson Boucher, who states that his grandfather, Anthony Boucher , was born in Duchess County, New York, in 1769. He states that John and Joseph Boucher were brothers of Anthony, and that their father came from the Rhine country, and that he was a soldier of the Revolution, but that he never returned and his fate was never known to his people. Nelson states that in 1822 some of the people adopted the spelling of the name as Poucher, and many use that form today. He also states there is a tradition that the original descent was from a French Huguenot, but that his people came to this country as Germans."

The Anthony Boucher born in Dutchess County in 1769 probably is Antonius (Bautzer) Boucher (bef.1769-). His profile shows brothers (supported by good sourced evidence) Joseph and Johannes; also children Johannes, Henrick, and Petrus. The profile for Anthony's father, Jacob Bautzer (1742-), is silent regarding Revolutionary War activity, and has no information about his death. Smith-62120 19:46, 8 December 2022 (UTC)