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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Projects" 2008.07.05 (04) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
from <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to "Irish Tom" (Tomas O' Carthaigh/Tom Carty) for his piece on the Palatine Germans in Ireland .</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As the 4 gts grand-daughter of a 7th generation
Palatine refugee, MIchael Switzer, I was very interested to read it.
The Switzers stemmed from Assenheim and emigrated after the Great Frost
of ( I think) 1707 which froze the vines and ruined the vinyards which
so many relied on for their livelihoods.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Queen Anne offered 100 acres per family in
Pennsylvania if they would emigrate there and many families packed up
and made their way down the Rhine to Holland, where after a delay they
were carried in Navy transport ships to the London estuary and
Gravesend. There (luckily) they were registered and these registers
have been a great source of family information for genealogists.
Unfortunately the dream of Pennsylvania never realised itself and
instead Queen Anne offered £3 per family to any parish in Great Britain
who would accept a German Protestant family. The Irish landlords
responded and took large numbers of families. Mine, the Switzers, went
to Rathkeale in Limerick and settled in the neighbourhood.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a small but v interesting musuem dedicated to the Palatine Germans in Rathkeale.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I would love to know more about any remnants of language that might have been noted or can still be traced.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">bw</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Heather</p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: History<br><br>Well, well, Heather, wouldn't that be nice tweaked up just a tad for inclusion as a companion article to Tom's? Just thinkin' ....<br><br>Reinhard/Ron</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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