-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 8:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [S-I] Palatines Ah! genealogical success comes to a crashing halt due to a small typo. Look at URL below. It's missing an l. http://www.teskey.org/palhist.htm http://www.teskey.org/palhist.html PS: If you google you 'll find a lot more information. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "marsha moses" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:19:38 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [S-I] Palatines Linda, the URL did not work. Marsha On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:13 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Karen, no, that is not correct. Why not read the articles > included as URLs? They'll make it clear and contain a lot more info > than the articles. > > Read here: > > Linda Merle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 8:58:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada > Eastern > Subject: Re: [S-I] Palatines > > I should know but I don't -- what does the word "palatine" refer to > in this > context please? I associate that word with Palestine - is that > related? > Thanks, > Karen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Virginia Beck" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:09 PM > Subject: Re: [S-I] Palatines > > > Yes, Linda: When I was researching my husband's Palatine Nellis > family (who > landed in NY in 1710), I was contacted by a descendant of an Irish > 'O'Nellis' family. He had been certain the name was truly Irish, but > learning that it was a Palatine name planted a seed of doubt, and > indicated > the need for further research. Although we didn't maintain contact, > I feel > pretty sure the family was part of that mass exodus, and that at > least one > group of the Nellis family chose Ireland over any part of the "New > World". > > Pretty extensive records of the Palatine émigrés to this country > were kept. > Their story has been researched extensively, and a number of > excellent books > about them have been published. When their proposed job of supplying > pine > pitch for the British Navy proved unworkable (the trees were the > wrong kind > - a classic bureaucratic boo-boo), many left the camps where the > English had > housed them, "squatted" on land in the Mohawk Valley & eventually > gained > title to it. > > They were America's first large group of non-English speaking > immigrants and > their participation in earlier wars (Queen Anne's, 1812, French & > Indian) > greatly impacted events that led to the Revolution. While most of them > joined the colonists during the Revolution, some stayed loyal to the > English, and many Palatine names are also found in Canada. > > This era and these people are depicted in the movie "Drums Along the > Mohawk", starring Henry Fonda, whose ancestors WERE Palatines from > this > area. Fonda, Montgomery Co. NY was named for them. I found margin > notes > signed by a Fonda descendant in some of the books in the Montgomery > County > Heritage & Genealogical Society there - one was a correction of > information > about my husband's family. > Virginia > > -------------- > > . . . in looking for a second hand copy of "The Irish Palatines in > Ontario" > (and finding none, but the first edition is in the Family History > Library.....), I did find this lecture entitled "Desperation > genealogy or > What the Rest of Us Can Learn from Irish Family History Researchers" > > . . . if anyone is wondering what is a Palatine -- it is a group of > people > who lived in the Palatinate area of what is now Germany, > Protestants, who > migrated in the 1700s. Some went directly to the New World while > some went > to England and Ireland. At the time various Irish estate owners were > looking > for Protestant tenants. The largest number were settled in Limerick. > Many > then joined the migration to the New World. Some of us think our > ancestors > were Scotch Irish and they were not: they were Palatines, so we're > looking > in the wrong end of Ireland for them. So check the list of surnames of > Palatines. Some are listed on the web here: > http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/ontario/general/resources/101185 > .htm > > The names include Adamson, Baker, Bowen, Brown, etc -- names that > don't seem > German at all. The Limerick people began coming to the Americas in > large > numbers in 1709 -- before the Scotch Irish -- and they founded > American > Methodism. > > > Linda Merle > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message