It appears as if <Dehede011@aol.com> wrote:
|Michael,
| Gulf has for a long time been one of my favorite stories from the view
|point that it was the story that most made me think. BTW, I once had the
|opportunity to talk to Mrs. Heinlein for a few minutes and took the
|opportunity to ask her about the origins of "speedtalk." She informed me
|that he simply made it up for the story. I also learned that while his name
|is German he was in fact mostly Irish. :))
Heinlein FAQ
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ANCESTORS: Matheis Heinlein arrived in Philadelphia on
October 31, 1754 and settled in Durham Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, raising two daughters and son George Heinlein
(1742-1805), captain of Durham township militia throughout the
Revolutionary War. About 1860, Heinlein's triple great
grandfather and three others among George's grandsons and great-
grandsons moved to Ohio. Heinlein's paternal grandfather one of
early settlers of Missouri. anecdotes passed down in the
Heinlein Family Association [LS:8]
MOTHER: Bam Lyle (Heinlein), daughter of Doctor Alva E. Lyle
(-1914, inspiration for "Time Enough for Love" [LS:8-9]) a
country doctor settled in Butler, Missouri.
FATHER: Rex Ivar Heinlein
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"The Morgans of Buck County"
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James MORGAN, ironmaster of Durham Furnace, was the father of
Daniel MORGAN, the famous general of the Revolution. James's second
wife was Sarah, daughter of Matheis Heinlein who arrived in
Philadelphia, on the Bannister, from Amsterdam in 1754.
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The ship Bannister was in Phaldelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 OCT 1754.
(From the book "Pennsylvania German Pioneers" by Ralph B. Strassburger and
William J. Hinke, published in 1934 by the Pennsylvania German Society,
Norristown, PA.)
The Palatines to America, a national genealogical society of persons
researching German-speaking ancestry, does not list a German Heinlein
arriving on the Bannister.
I have seen statements in print media that "Matheis Heinlein" originally was
a "Matheis Hämäläinen" from Finland (which 1754 formed a part of Sweden).
[I can neither confirm nor deny this information at this time, however.]
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