Thank you Dave / Bill for this, I’ve never seen one.
I wonder if there was a similar proclamation from queen Anne of England?
Some background to my question : I recently did my dna on ancestry (ethnic german on both sides) and 5% of my dna matches people in Ireland. (… wha ? I expected some English due to ancient migrations etc, but not specifically Ireland). I did some googling and came across a few articles on the “Irish Palatines”.
In 1708 15,000 people from the Palatinate had permission from queen Anne to emigrate to the American colonies (if they were protesant). They sailed up the Rhine, gained passage in Amsterdam ended up first in England, some 3000 of them were given permission to settle in Ireland in the district of Tipperary.
The author Daniel Dafoe (he wrote Robinson Crusoe), even wrote a pamphett about the ones in who arrived in England entitled “the poor Palatines’.
I figure that their regional ancestors were from the same general regional population that my ancestors come from. If any of their descendants are in the reference sample group that Ancestry uses – my match to that group makes sense.
* But what I find very interesting about this are the dates, in 1708 a large number of protestant palatines emigrated to the American colonies, in 1723 (15 years later), catholic palatines emigrated to the kingdom of Hungary. Additionally, I read today that the protestant palatine emigration to the American colonies stopped around 1770 (due to events leading to the revolutionary war), the very same year 1770, also happens to be the year of one of the largest registrations / Schwabenzugs to Hungary. …. My mother told me once that some people became catholics just so they could emigrate to Hungary.
I’ve seen the painting by Stefan Jaeger „Die Einwanderung der Schwaben in das Banat" and also 1971 photographs of the 250th anniversary of the settling of Jahrmarkt where people are wearing their tricorn hats and looked very well dressed …. I do get the impression though, that many of the original settlers were poor.
Thought this might be interesting.
As the queen of sheba said to king Solomon … I didn’t know the half of it.