Ruth,I think abt that,too. So amazing. Beverly Sent from my iPad On Feb 18, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Ruth Hoese <ruthjh@gmail.com> wrote: > It is hard for us of the automobile age to realize how much people > actually traveled back in those days. They really got around. > > On 2/18/2014 1:06 PM, john shafer wrote: >> Interesting you mention the Irish palatines Beverly. My grandfather always stated that my ancestor john shaffer came from Ireland but the shaffers were clearly German. There is a branch of my correll family that also ended up in Ireland via the German states. >> >> John >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:56 PM, "Beverly Robinson" <bez4@aol.com> wrote: >>> >>> In fact, King George was so German that he didn't speak English! He showed favoritism to some of my Irish Palatine ancestors, Germans sent to Ireland in 1709. They got payments for over twenty years and preferential land arrangements for being Protestant settlers in largely Catholic County Limerick. >>> >>> Beverly Railey Robinson >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:47 PM, "Bill Thomas" <wbtst2@atlanticbb.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> The area the Hessian's came from in Europe is not associated with the >>>> European version of the German Baptists. By the American Revolution, the >>>> European version was likely extinct. It was not uncommon for Hessian >>>> soldiers to go AWOL from the British Army. They likely joined in the first >>>> place out of economic needs. King George was of German ancestry and had >>>> alliances with Hesse, including using Hessian soldiers to fight in America. >>>> The 'House of Windsor' used by the Royal Family is a recent term, which came >>>> about during World War I, since having a King with a fancy German name, >>>> wasn't a politically correct thing to do when you were fighting the Germans. >>>> Especially when the Kaiser was the King of England's cousin. One of my >>>> ancestors was an AWOL Hessian. He was Lutheran. >>>> >>>> Bill Thomas >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------ >>>> Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN >>>> ------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------ >> Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN >> ------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message