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    German immigrants to Birmingham

    Maurice and Paul. Thanks for your comments. I notice that a lot of the surnames originated in Rhein. One of the possibilities I looked at was whether he came to uk with the Palatines, but no luck there either. Many Palatines were brought to Birmingham with the intention of moving them on to...
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    German immigrants to Birmingham

    I have been trying, for some years, to find out where my wife’s ancestor, William Deitz or his forebears, came from before they lived in Birmingham. I can trace records back to 1803 when William, Deitz, a tailor, married Hannah Massey at Rochford in Worcestershire. They lived in Birmingham and...
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