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- The Germans that would eventually settle the Mohawk Valley came from the Rhine Valley River region known as the "Palatinate." The name arose from the Roman word "Palatine," the title given to the ruling family of the area when it was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Oct 8, 2022 · Fort Stanwix National Monument. The Germans that would eventually settle the Mohawk Valley came from the Rhine Valley River region known as the "Palatinate." The name arose from the Roman word "Palatine," the title given to the ruling family of the area when it was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Nov 6, 2016 · I’d love to know more about these families before their arrival in England. In particular, I’d like to know more about their deep ancestry, before the advent of surnames. Where did they come from? Who were their people? Were they Celts or Saxons or maybe Huns before they were Germans seeking refuge?
- Who Were The Pennsylvania Germans?
- The “Island of Pinßel Fania”
- Three 18th Century Waves
- Why Did Pennsylvania German Immigration Peak in The Mid-18Th Century?
- Religious Freedom
- Land and Community
- Pennsylvania Politics
As I explained in an earlier blog post “Tracing Your 19th Century German Ancestors- Part 1: Which Germans?,” the Pennsylvania Germans came primarily from the southwest part of German lands (Palatinate or Pfalz, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Switzerland, Alsace, and also the Netherlands), first in small numbers in the late 17th and then in larger number...
Why did so many Germans leave behind everything they knew to risk going to a faraway English colony in the 17th and 18th centuries? William Penn had received a charter from Charles II in 1681 for the colony of Pennsylvania. Penn hoped to create a haven in the New World for Quakers, who had been so persecuted in England. For his colony to succeed fi...
Pennsylvania German immigration can be thought of as having three general phases.2 The earliest Germans (about 1683) came to North America more because of religious persecution due to the aftermath of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). By 1707-1714 many began to come because of a crop failure crisis. This second group sometimes is referred to as the...
In his excellent book, Hopeful Journeys, German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America 1717-1775, Aaron Spencer Fogleman traces many of the factors behind the Pennsylvania Germans’ immigration to and cultural behavior in North America. Fogleman explained that since the 11th century a cycle of farming innovation, populati...
Many cite that Pennsylvania Germans came for religious freedom. Though like most German immigrants, Pennsylvania Germans were mostly Lutheran or Catholic, far more 18th-century than 19th-century German immigrants belonged to smaller sects. Fogleman argued that though religious freedom may have been a factor, especially with these smaller sects (e.g...
The desire for land and community lies at the heart of understanding Pennsylvania Germans. Hopeful Journeysargued that “German-speaking immigrants would become hypersensitive to political matters involving land issues.”8 The farmers of southwest German lands were generally not passive as one might imagine of peasants. Pennsylvania Germans had been ...
As explained in a previous blog poston the book American Nations,Pennsylvania Germans were part of what author Colin Woodard called the Midlands.In the colonial period the clash between the Quakers, Germans, and Scots-Irish defined Pennsylvania politics. Frustrated by German political clout, Benjamin Franklin fell prey to the American tendency to o...
The Palatines were people from the continent of Europe, most of whom were German-speaking, who emigrated to America between 1709 and 1808. They were called Palatines by the English government because many of them came from the Rhenish Palatinate, a part of Germany.
Feb 1, 2024 · Some earned an exclusive fourth name, an agnomen (like a nickname), based on accomplishments. Consider Gaius Julius Caesar, the iconic Roman emperor. We know him simply by his cognomen “Caesar,” or as “Julius Caesar.”. Julius wasn’t his first name, but the name that meant he came from the affluent patrician gens Julia.
Jun 29, 2020 · By plotting the distribution of a surname in Germany, you can determine whether the name originated in Germany or came into use due to immigration (mostly as a result of World War II). It’s not always easy for a German speaker to understand the meaning of a family name.
The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described ...
