----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Haggett" <yvonne@pandyhaggett.supanet.com> To: <PALATINES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: [Palatines] SMELTZER and BIBLE > Hi > > I'm new to the list. My husband's great-grandmother was Ann Victoria SMELTZER, whose father, Philip, was of Irish Palatine descent. I would love to find out what village in Germany his ancestor, Peter SMELSER, from whom all Irish Palatine Smeltzers are believed to be descended, came from. <snip> Johannes Schmeltzer, b. 1706, probably in Swabia, emigrated to Philadelphia, America and married Elisabeth Korr abt. 1737. They had seven children, John Peter 1738, Johannes 1741, Elisabeth 1743, Margaret 1745, Sabina 1746, Jacobina 1749 and John Jacob 1752. Harold