[or-roots] Palatine References

Bill & Chris Strickland lechevrier at q.com
Thu Dec 15 09:20:30 PST 2011


The website 
http://genealogygirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/waltercshierbook.pdf, 
is a digital transcription of a 17 page book written by the late Dr. 
Walter C. Shier, "The Shier Family, 1709 – 1850"

As well as being an interesting Palatine genealogy, it has an excellent 
pre-1917 bibliography of Palatine history:

Bittenger, Lucy Forney: The Germans in Colonial Times
Philadelphia 1901.
Cobb, Sandford H.: The Story of the Palatines.
Boston(?) 1897
Crook, William: Ireland and the Centenary of American Methodism.
London and Dublin, 1866
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried: The German Exodus to England in 1709.
Lancaster PA., 1897
James, C. C.: “The Irish Palatines” The Methodist Magazine and Review, 
vol. 55, 1902, pp.
217-225, 291-303.
Knittle, Walter Allen: The Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration. 
Dissertation,
Philadelphia, 1936.
Tucker, Rev. W. Bowman. The Romance of the Palatine Millers.
Montreal, 1929. (Augmented edition of The Camden Colony. 1907.)

Brief descriptions of the Irish Palatines can be found in the accounts 
of various travelers, such as:

Carr, John. A Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern and Western 
Parts of that Country
in the Year 1805. p. 352
Hall, Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Ireland: it's Scenery, Character, &c.
(no date; about 1843). vol. 1, pp. 346ff.
Kohl, J. G. Travels in Ireland. (1842). p. 76
de Latocnaye, de B. Promenade d'un Francais dans l'Irlande, 1796-97
(translated by John Stevenson, 1917) pp. 118-119
Wesley, John. Journal. See the entries under the dates 1760, July 16; 
1762, June 5; 1765, June
14; 1767, May 21; 1778, May 7, May 8; 1789, May 13.
Young, Arthur. A Tour in Ireland, with General Observations on the 
Present State of that
Kingdom made in 1776, 1777, 1778. See the entries for 1776, September 
30, October 5,
October 7; vol. 2, sec. 5



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