Palatine German Refugees
Annie Willson Bonner was quite adamant that the family’s heritage was Scottish, to the point that she became angry with her granddaughter on one occasion when the young girl wrote a school assignment claiming there might be some Irish in the family tree. Annie told the child that it would not do to have that […]
Our Bavarian Roots
The Mullins’ family roots are almost all English and Scottish. But one branch of the family immigrated to the U.S. from Frankenthal, Bavaria (today’s southwest Germany), from an area known as the Rhenish Palatinate, on the west coast of the Rhine. George Freyschlag and his wife, Suzanne Fittig, were born in the former district of […]