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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);">Felix Hülsey</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:felix.huelsey@gmx.de">felix.huelsey@gmx.de</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 "History"</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;" face="Arial">Hi all,<br>
<br>
there were (and still are, as I understand) the Palatine language
islands near Kleve in the very west of Germany, near the Dutch border
and Arnhem, settled by Palatine refugees who never made it to the ports
and to the ships to America. <br>
<br>
All the resources I found are in German:<br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pf%C3%A4lzische_Sprachinsel" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pf%C3%A4lzische_Sprachinsel</a><br>
<a href="http://www.pfaelzer-siedler.de/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.pfaelzer-siedler.de/index.html</a><br>
<br>
... but even those of you who don't speak German should have a look at
this aerial view of Louisendorf--the architectural structure of this
1820 settlement is fascinating.<br>
<a href="http://www.pfaelzer-siedler.de/html/louisendorf.html" target="_blank">http://www.pfaelzer-siedler.de/html/louisendorf.html</a><br>
<br>
I wonder if there are other villages like these, in the lowlands or
elsewhere, with a huge churchyard in the centre of a tiny settlement?<br>
<br>
Nice Sunday to you all,<br>
Felix<br>
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Lowlands-L List het geskryf:
<br>From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span>
<span><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L
"Projects" 2008.07.05 (04) [E]<br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;">from <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;">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; margin-left: 40px;">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; margin-left: 40px;">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; margin-left: 40px;">There is a small
but v interesting musuem dedicated to the Palatine Germans in Rathkeale.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;">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; margin-left: 40px;">bw</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;">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>>
<br>
Subject: History<br><br>Great to hear from you again, Felix!<br><br>I didn't know about that language enclave near Cleves.<br><br>And, of course, many Palatine German speakers did make it to the "New World," especially to Pennsylvania and thereabouts. Today's Pennsylvania German ("Pennsylvania Dutch, "Deitsh"") is basically Palatine German with Alemannic and English admixtures.<br>
<br>Cheerio!<br><br>Reinhard/Ron</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">