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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Projects" 2008.07.05 (04) [E]

from heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk

Thanks to  "Irish Tom" (Tomas O' Carthaigh/Tom Carty) for his piece on the
Palatine Germans in Ireland .

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.

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.

There is a small but v interesting musuem dedicated to the Palatine Germans
in Rathkeale.

I would love to know more about any remnants of language that might have
been noted or can still be traced.

bw

Heather
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: History

Well, well, Heather, wouldn't that be nice tweaked up just a tad for
inclusion as a companion article to Tom's? Just thinkin' ....

Reinhard/Ron
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