Re: H Glantz in Ireland ?
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Re: H Glantz in Ireland ?
Skip Allen 8/11/01
Skip, the matter I was responding to was
whether it is plausible that Hieronymous
resided for some time in the British Isles, and the answer is simple: yes, it is.It
doesn't have anything to do with whether he
was Irish or German, married a Mack or was a Lutheran.He's plausibly of Dutch or German origin, and that may very well be true of his name, too, but I have no data.You can also make a case, weak maybe, maybe not, that the name is of Irish origin, strange as this may sound until you look at the Palatine and the names that look like Claunch or Clontz.But either way, I can't prove anything.All I can do is suggest that so many of you out there who are detecting paradoxes in the Clontz-Glantz lines just haven't spent enough time sorting out the different stories, because there is a version that, while not verifiable, at least sorts out the stories so that things work.Which is to say, you have these brothers from Germany who lingered in Holland, lived awhile--at least two of them--in the British Isles; one remained Ireland and Scotland, one married in Ireland and came here, and one came here to PA.I don't have papers in front of me, but one was the father.One married Mack.One line continued in Pennsylvania, one went south.And south, you can sort out the Jeremiahs,
one line patriots, one line not.One line more German, the other more Irish, according to the wives, the region, how wild it was, the church available.There was a father, and he went south.They were Glantzes, maybe Clontzes or even Claunches before that, and then they went out and as Glantz,
Clontz, Clance, Glance, Claunch, and Clonts
populated the New World.And it all works
provided you assume that the various tales
from LDS files, the net, and what you see here are approximately true.The line of Jeremiah who married Sophie is twin to that of the one with the George in it, the Rhines and the Longs.And you can make a reasonable guess as to the lines and times of migration.I can't prove any of it, but at least it makes sense, and being a rather weak genealogist I have decided to rest my case on that.
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Re: H Glantz in Ireland ?
Skip Allen 8/14/01