Terry, Oh, that would be "marvelous!", as my cousin in NZ always says! Both of us would appreciate anything that you can "dig" or "unearth" on the surname of TWISS! What do you want? Fax #? Or, SNAIL MAIL? Where are you, by the way? I live in British Columbia, Canada. Thank you so very much. Shannah ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 6:10 AM Subject: Re: [IP] TWISS family Shannah Following up your query about Bansha: I found the townland in Kerry through Ed Finn's wonderful site at http://www.seanruad.com/cgi-bin/iresch This database will patch together all the townlands, civil parishes, baronies and Poor Law Unions (PLU) in Ireland. You can get a print-out of any number of 60 000+ townlands with the associated details. Yours reads as follows (assuming it's the right one - I'm sure it is): Townland: BANSHAGH Acres: 310 Civil Parish: Killorglin Barony: Trughhanacmy PLU: Killarney and, obviously, County Kerry in the Province of Munster. If you have land there I'm very envious. Here is a delicious snippet about the Palatines in Kerry, taken from the GROVES TRANSCRIPTS which I shall continue to post at intervals soon. The sheer genius of these German immigrants calls for some serious reflection - remember we are dealing with bogland here: ***START HERE*** From J King's History of Co Kerry p.146 Palatines at Arabella in Ballymacelligott parish: Col. Hassett brought a colony of Palatines from Co Limerick about 1746 and settled them near Tralee. About 1776 there were 16 families small farmers. Each settler in 1746 got a cow a horse and everything they wanted for a year, besides having the land for half its value. They introduced ploughing with a wheel plough and planted their potatoes in drills. They brought in cars with wheels as there were only sliding cars before…. ***END HERE*** I think our Jamboree in 2009 should begin with a journey in wooden buckets (along the route suggested by Ken - from start to finish) and we should drift between townlands on sliding cars. What a hoot ... I will do name searches for anyone, not just Hazel, of course. As regards TWISS, I can't tell you much more than Hank Jones does in "The Palatine Families of Ireland". Like the author, I can't find the name in the important London lists - although I have tracked down many others that are missing from the book. If you don't have that information, by the way, I can send it to you off-link. Bye bye, Shannah Terry ==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== List Administrator: Susan Laursen Willig [email protected]