John. As always your postings provide valuable information. I had not previously been aware of the likely connection between the religion of the German immigrants and their settlement into the host community. Thank you for that. A lot of German people, mostly off the ship "Caesar" I think, settled in the Eden and Monaro areas of NSW; and to the best of my knowledge they did not ever settle into German communities or leave German placenames; but rather they integrated, now seemingly seamlessly -- although it might not have seemed to be so at the time -- into the local communities, inter-marrying with the Anglos etc. To date I have not done even a superficial analysis of their religions, but that will now be something else to add to my "to do" list -- as if it weren't long enough already. LOL. Once again I thank you for revealing this line of thought. Regards: Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: <johngoswell@iprimus.com.au> To: <aus-nsw-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:24 AM Subject: [HV] German Immigration ... Interestingly the Germans integrated with the English here in the Hunter Valley (they were Catholic so intermarried without problems) as opposed to South Australia (they were mostly Lutheran there). We, therefore do not have German towns and settlements such as Hahndorf. > > John Goswell