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From: Lois <>
Subject: HOBOKEN ANCESTORY - BOICE (BOYCE) / MOORE / DITTMAR / LAWLER /
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:08:28 -0400

Hi!

Thanks to all of you who have written to try to help me with my search. We are
in the middle of moving from one house to another so I have not had time to sit down
and let you each know that I appreciate you taking the time to try to help.

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I am still looking for information on both deceased parents' families from Hoboken.
I estimate that all the grandparents were born in the early 1900s. My paternal grandfather's
family 'may' have been English, or possibly Irish. I know my father was raised Catholic so I
believe his mother was Catholic, but I am not sure if her background was English or Irish.
My mother's father's family were, I believe German (Lutheran) while her mother's family,
I believe, was Irish (very possibly Episcopalian).

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My father was the youngest of the three children of Reginald & Agnes Boice. Someone
in my grandfather's family changed the spelling of their name from Boice to Boyce. My
father took the new spelling but my grandfather never changed his. I am not sure if my
aunts' maiden names were Boice or Boyce. Have written to the one cousin I think may
have some info but in most cases the remanding family members are quite elderly and
none live near me.

my father: Leonard Francis BOYCE (Boice) b, 5/23/22 d, 10/2/81
his sister: Agnes (Boyce) STACK b? [living]
his sister: Marcella (Boyce) KOENINGSFEST b? [living]
his father: Reginald ? BOICE
his mother: Agnes (MOORE) Boice

My father was apparently married first to a lady possibly named Stephanie, sometime
during the 1943 - 46, probably in Hoboken. They had a son: Leonard Francis Boyce, Jr. That
marriage ended in divorce. He married my mother 12/30/48 in Brownville, NY. They had three children:

Lois Ann Boyce Flack 8/15/49
Linda Lee Boyce Garrrow 6/27/52
Leonard Willaim Boyce 8/22/53

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My mother was the youngest child and only girl of four children. There are no living
members of her family that I am aware of except for a cousin of mine who I am
attempting to contact.

my mother: Louise Matilda DITTMAR Boyce b, 1/30/23 d, 1/27/98
her brother: William ? DITTMAR b, ? d, 1970s? (married- 3 children, 2 deceased, 1 living)
her brother: Frederick ? DITTMAR b, ? d, 1950s? (never married - no children)
her brother: George ? DITTMAR b, ? d, 1940s ? (married - 2 children - ?)
her father: William ? DITTMAR b, ? d, ?
her mother: Grace LAWLER Dittmar b, d -abt. 1924
her aunt: Anna Marie LAWLER Taffell b, ? d, abt.- 1957 - Brownville, NY

My grandfather remarried after my mother's mother died and the woman he married
had two children by her former marriage. I do not know any names but she died when my
mother was around 16, which would be around 1939.

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Lois Boyce Flack
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