George Slicker (schlicher)

[danbonino]

george may have had family roots in ireland long before he arrived. here a list of arrivals from the Palatinate in England in 1709:

https://www.genesearch.com/genealogy-records/1709palatines/june.html

Includes a George Schleicher.

Several hundred families from the Palatinate were resettled in Wexford and Limerick.

[danbonino]

Both George and his father Jakob were musicians went they? And they came from Palatinate. This would fit with the info in this link:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palatine_travelling_music_tradition

[Bonbonnie]

Very useful info ty. What I’ve seen from the Alien registration form 1914-1922 (posted earlier in this thread) which was completed by Dublin Metropolitan Police is that George Schlicher arrived in 1871. Birthplace Frankelbach, Bavaria.  His date of birth was recorded as 6 June 1849.  So He was indeed from Bayern, Pfalz now part of Rhineland Pfalz or the Rhineland Palatinate.  He also registered 3 sons born in 1876, 1879 and 1883. Place of birth for all 3 is specified as Dublin. 

So that list of arrivals seems too early.  Is the list of arrivals from 1709 or just in 1709? And do you know of further sources detailing arrivals?  I’ve been searching but had no luck so far.  I’ve also been checking births in German records and found a couple of possibles in Bavaria but not in Frankelbach.

Of course any part of these records is subject to misspelling and dependent on correct facts being given and recorded etc which further complicates matters.



The list of arrivals

[danbonino]

Very useful info ty. What I’ve seen from the Alien registration form 1914-1922 (posted earlier in this thread) which was completed by Dublin Metropolitan Police is that George Schlicher arrived in 1871. Birthplace Frankelbach, Bavaria.  His date of birth was recorded as 6 June 1849.  So He was indeed from Bayern, Pfalz now part of Rhineland Pfalz or the Rhineland Palatinate.  He also registered 3 sons born in 1876, 1879 and 1883. Place of birth for all 3 is specified as Dublin. 

So that list of arrivals seems too early.  Is the list of arrivals from 1709 or just in 1709? And do you know of further sources detailing arrivals?  I’ve been searching but had no luck so far.  I’ve also been checking births in German records and found a couple of possibles in Bavaria but not in Frankelbach.

Of course any part of these records is subject to misspelling and dependent on correct facts being given and recorded etc which further complicates matters.



The list of arrivals

I think these articles might help explain how and why he ended up in Dublin;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palatine_travelling_music_tradition

http://www.essweiler.de/cont3/geschichte/76-geschichte/wandermusikanten/itinerant-musicians-other-languages/178-the-itinerant-musicians

More the location of Frankelbach cf the other villages. He and his father were both musicians. His Dublin neighbour Henry Sheer was from Rothselberg.

[danbonino]

Very useful info ty. What I’ve seen from the Alien registration form 1914-1922 (posted earlier in this thread) which was completed by Dublin Metropolitan Police is that George Schlicher arrived in 1871. Birthplace Frankelbach, Bavaria.  His date of birth was recorded as 6 June 1849.  So He was indeed from Bayern, Pfalz now part of Rhineland Pfalz or the Rhineland Palatinate.  He also registered 3 sons born in 1876, 1879 and 1883. Place of birth for all 3 is specified as Dublin. 

So that list of arrivals seems too early.  Is the list of arrivals from 1709 or just in 1709? And do you know of further sources detailing arrivals?  I’ve been searching but had no luck so far.  I’ve also been checking births in German records and found a couple of possibles in Bavaria but not in Frankelbach.

Of course any part of these records is subject to misspelling and dependent on correct facts being given and recorded etc which further complicates matters.



The list of arrivals

I don’t have any further info on the 1709 arrivals and clearly way too early for George BUT it may give context for why he chose Ireland if there were family roots there.

Btw it seems he was thrice married. Months after Rosanna died he married Kate O’Brien in Nenagh. but if you look on the 1911 census he is married to an Elizabeth an says they have been married for three years...

[danbonino]

... or maybe not:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000180854/

The original entry has been amended and Elizabeth crossed  out. My guess is he was living with her as a common law wife. A bit of a mystery. Equally unclear is what happened to Kate.

[danbonino]

Very useful info ty. What I’ve seen from the Alien registration form 1914-1922 (posted earlier in this thread) which was completed by Dublin Metropolitan Police is that George Schlicher arrived in 1871. Birthplace Frankelbach, Bavaria.  His date of birth was recorded as 6 June 1849.  So He was indeed from Bayern, Pfalz now part of Rhineland Pfalz or the Rhineland Palatinate.  He also registered 3 sons born in 1876, 1879 and 1883. Place of birth for all 3 is specified as Dublin. 

So that list of arrivals seems too early.  Is the list of arrivals from 1709 or just in 1709? And do you know of further sources detailing arrivals?  I’ve been searching but had no luck so far.  I’ve also been checking births in German records and found a couple of possibles in Bavaria but not in Frankelbach.

Of course any part of these records is subject to misspelling and dependent on correct facts being given and recorded etc which further complicates matters.



The list of arrivals

According to the 1914 alien register Henry Sheer was from Frankelbach but no mention of George being from there. It does though have a note added later re him being widowed and  wife being Elizabeth died 1925....

[kslicker]

Hi Troy thank you for your message I have found Louis he is the Son on George senior who was born in Germany 1834 and came to Dublin  in 1849, he lived in Chancery Lane, Wood Quay at number 13 and was a guesthouse proprieter and Barrel Organ owner. It was his Son Louis that is my great grandfather. this would make us cousins I think. please contact me if you have any info on Louis Life, thanks for your help all the best Edd

Hi Edd. We are the last remaining Slickers in Ireland. My grandfather was Frederick Slicker. He eventually moved to Kildare which is where we reside currently.