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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: Leith Edinburgh 1901 and 1910
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:12:34 -0000
References: <a8jfki$ssltk$1@ID-71976.news.dfncis.de>, <SwFr8.2783$Ix6.17437784@news-text.cableinet.net>, <a8nmdc$tnr78$1@ID-71976.news.dfncis.de>


"Hugh Watkins" <> wrote
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> ... Deutschers who came to Australia'. The Deutschers were from the Bautzen area in
> Upper Lusatia, Saxony. They were Sorbs (Wends). Their Sorbian (Wendish) name ...
> www.slv.vic.gov.au/slv/genealogy/german/xxxd.pdf
>
>
> Family History 1848 to 1986 in Australia

the big file cached crashed OE 6.00 before I was finished twice

http://members.aol.com/BeallComp/wends.htm

>>
The Wendish migration to the United States was closely associated with that of the Germans. In 1849 some Wends settled in Austin
County, Tex.; in 1853 a party of 35 Wends sailed for Texas, and the next year Pastor Jan Kilian (I811- 1884) and 500 Wends landed at
Galveston. Although some of the Wends had been driven there by economic hardship, especially crop failures in the 1840s and a land
shortage resulting from population growth in Lusatia, the Kilian group were religious dissenters: some of them had lived under
Prussian administration and left in reaction to government attempts to force the Lutherans and Calvinists to worship in a single
state church; others had lived under Saxon administration and were unhappy over the doctrinal laxity in the Lutheran Church of
Saxony and theimpact of rationalism on the clergy. <<



http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=YMAC&q=Sorbs+%28Wends%29%2E+Their+Sorbian+%28Wendish%29+name+%2E%2E%2E



so if your Deuchars stop in 1840 look at Prussia ?

? Brandenberg

Hugh W



http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=Sorbs+calvinist+church&spell=1







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