In reply to Gayle Mitchell's query yesterday: >I have managed to trace my TETLOCK ancestors to Samuel TETLOCK whose Ontario >death certificate (1880) says he was born 1807 in County Wexford Ireland. He >married Eliza FRIZZAL (I believe) but I don't know where. Does anyone know >of any TETLOCKS or FRIZZALS or have any idea where I might go for further >information? They appear to have been Anglican though some of their >descendents were Methodist. I don't know when they (or he) arrived in >Canada. >Gayle Mitchell Vancouver BC gayle_bill_mitchell@compuserve.com I don't have precise information, but FRIZZAL (various spellings) was one of the families of "Palatine Irish," German Protestants who fled French harrassment and the destruction of Rhine vinyards in the bitter winter of 1708/9---some 10K took up Queen Anne's expressions of support and came to London--whence most were sent to Pennsylvania, where they wished to go. But 200 families were diverted to Ireland to beef up the Protestant demographics. Most went to Limerick, but 35 families were settled on RAM family estates in WEX. These included FRIZZELs and POOLEs (Puhl, it's suggest, originally), my ancestors. The Palatines were Protestant already, but became devout Methodists when preached to by John Wesley himself. The Wexford Rising in 1798 began more or less literally with the burning of the house of another Methodist ancestor of mine, Robt. Webster, in Garrybrit. The events of '98 persuaded the Methodists (including the Palatines) that their prospects were dim in southern Ireland, and many or most emigrated to what is now Ontario when the ending of the Napoleonic Wars made travel possible. Wesleyanism had been introduced to North American (New York) in the 1760's by Palatine Irish emigrants. There are a number of sources for these people in Canada, and many more those who went straight to Penn. AUTHOR: Heald, Carolyn A., 1963- TITLE: The Irish Palatines in Ontario : religion, ethnicity and rural migration / by Carolyn A. Heald. PUB. INFO: Gananoque, Ont. : Langdale Press, c1994. DESCRIPTION: 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. SUBJECTS: *S1 Palatines--Ontario--History. *S2 Irish--Ontario--History. *S3 Palatines--Ireland--History--18th century. *S4 Immigrants--Ontario--History. AUTHOR: O'Connor, Patrick J., Dr. TITLE: People make places : the story of the Irish Palatines / Patrick J. O'Connor. PUB. INFO: Newcastle West, Co. Limerick : Oireacht na Mumhan Books, c1989. DESCRIPTION: 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. SUBJECTS: *S1 Palatines--Ireland--History. *S2 Germans--Ireland--History. *S3 Ethnology--Ireland. *S4 Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)--Emigration and immigration. *S5 Ireland--Civilization--German influences. FRIZZELs are mentioned in these and other sources. I don't have info on Tetlock, but if they were Methodists (likely given the FRIZZEL connection), then they were likely part of what was not merely emigration to Canada, but one structured as 'chain migration' of groups going were there were already kin/neighbors. My POOLE/JOHNSTON/WEBSTER/COPELAND ancestors, from the Gorey area and Garrybrit, moved to Perth in E. Ontario, to Newboro nearby, then to Gorrie (sic)(Ottawa botched the postoffice application!) in Huron County in W. ON, then to Balcarres in what is now Saskatchewan. In each location the same connected families lived, and were the pillars of the local Methodist church (and were frequently clergy or held local preaching licenses.) And re who was Anglican and who was Methodist--the latter was a 'tendancy' within Anglicanism until 1795, over and above the C of I being the state religion that everyone had to pay for and be married etc in. I'll be interested to hear of/from others pursuing WEX Wesleyans and their emigration. Cheers/Greg Gregory A. Finnegan, PhD Associate Librarian for Public Services and Head of Reference Tozzer Library Harvard University 21 Divinity Avenue Cambridge MA 02138-2089 617-495-2253 fax 617-496-2741 gregory_finnegan@harvard.edu "...have mercy on us all --Presbyterians and Pagans alike -- for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending." MOBY-DICK, chapter 17.