The Johann Adam Bolich and his brother Andreas Bolich families. (NOT RELATED TO OUR BALCH LINES)
Information is not included in pages on this site since this family is unrelated to our Balch families, however, many descendants of these families use the BALCH spelling of their surname. At times we have confused members from this line with our Balch lines.
Our research indicates that this line has it's beginning in the U.S. with the two brothers, Johann Adam Bolich and Andreas Bolich, of German descent, who arrived on the passenger ship Neptune at the port of Philadelphia in 1753. The derivation of the name Bolich was understood to be "Bolch" and thus recorded in the ships manifest. The name 'Bolch" was used extensively by family members, however, some members did use the original name, Bolich. The name Balch was first used by the family during the 1850's when two of the brothers moved to live over in east Tennessee. Joseph Bolch and his brother Hiram Bolch are said to have moved from the Lincoln and Catawba county area of NC over to Cocke County Tennessee sometime between 1850 - 1860. In this area the Balch name was well known, and through miss-spelling and mis-pronounciation, some of the family members took up the spelling as BALCH. There is a long line of BALCH descendants from these German immigrants.
The John Balch and Margaret Lovett family of Massachusetts. Proven by DNA testing to be related to our John Balch of Maryland. This is the first Balch line to come to the America, arriving at the Massachusetts Colony with the Georgs Company in 1623. An excellent Family history of this family has been published by Galusha Burchard Balch in "The Balch Families of America", Eben-Putnam, Salem, MA 1897. This excellent book of over 500 pages was available through Higginson Genealogical Books, 14 Derby Square, Salem, MA 01970.
There are several web pages for information on this family line. Please search the internet for related sites.
