The Procida immigrants of 1885: a case study on their
origins and recruitment in Germany, and immigration
and settlement in Tasmania
Michael Watt
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The Procida immigrants of 1885: a case study on their origins and recruitment in
Germany, and immigration and settlement in Tasmania
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ............................................................................................................
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Introduction ............................................................................…...................
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Method ..........................................................................................................
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Origins and Recruitment ................................................................................
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Immigration and Settlement ...........................................................................
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Appendix A....................................................................................................
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Appendix B....................................................................................................
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Appendix C....................................................................................................
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References ..............................................................................................…..
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PREFACE
My interest in the Procida immigrants arose from a study I conducted on the Mansson
family, my father’s maternal ancestors, who emigrated on the Procida and settled at
Pyengana (Watt, 2006). In 2009, I read and reviewed Marita Hargraves’ book, and
concluded that additional information contained in this source warranted revising the
document on the history of the Mansson family. In 2011, the introductory chapter was
revised by including analyses of the recruitment, demographic characteristics and
settlement patterns of the immigrants, who arrived on the Procida in 1885.
In Issue 8 of the Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical Society’s newsletter Former Times, I
published an article titled ‘Researching Immigration to Tasmania from Germany in the
Nineteenth Century’. Distributed at the Tasmanian Family History Society’s Annual
General Meeting and Conference held at Swansea in June 2015, this issue of the
newsletter reached a wider audience than usual. An outcome of the article’s publication
was an invitation to give a presentation on this topic to a group at a Tasmanian Family
History Society general meeting held on 17 November, 2015 in the Sunday School, St
John’s Park, New Town. The talk focused mainly on the immigrants, who arrived from
Germany on the Procida in 1885.
An outcome was the publication of two articles on this topic in the Tasmanian Family
History Society’s journal, Tasmanian Ancestry. The first article titled, ‘The origins of
Tasmanian settlers recruited from Germany: a case study of the Procida immigrants of
1885’ was published in volume 36, number 4 in March 2016. The second article titled,
‘The settlement patterns of immigrants from Germany: a case study of the Procida
immigrants of 1885’ was published in volume 37, number 1 in June 2016.
While researching the articles, I concluded that information reported in the articles
should be amalgamated into a single document to provide a resource for library
collections and researchers of family history. During the course of writing the articles, I
compiled a list of children born to the families after arrival, single adults, who
subsequently married, and the children of the families, who subsequently married. It is
believed that this information will form a valuable reference for other descendants of
the Procida immigrants in tracing their family histories.
The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance given by the following people in
contributing genealogical information about the Procida immigrants.
Kathy
Duncombe, coordinator of the Bruny Island Historical Society, is thanked for reviewing
Appendix B and providing details about family members of the Glau, Kaden and
Ohlson families, who settled on Bruny Island. Judith Reeves is thanked for providing
information about the descendants of Marie Christina Glau. Kym Matthews, curator of
the St Helens History Room, is thanked for providing access to family history files on
the Jestrimski, Kohl and Nicklason families, who settled at Pyengana. A genealogy,
compiled by Lance Dwyer of families associated with the Dwyer family, provided
genealogical information about the Jestrimski, Kohl and Nicklason families. A
genealogy, compiled by the late John Medwin of families related to the Medwin family,
descendants of William Medwin, the first settler in the Circular Head district, provided
genealogical information about the Haustein family. Diane Horton is thanked for
providing genealogical information about the descendants of Niels Peter Neilson.
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INTRODUCTION
Immigration to Tasmania in the late Nineteenth Century
In the early 1850s, the gold rushes in New South Wales and Victoria and the cessation
of transportation affected the pattern of recruiting new settlers to Tasmania. At the
same time as the transportation of convicts ceased in 1853, a large proportion of ablebodied men left for the goldfields. This situation became sufficiently serious for the
colonial government to introduce two systems, indented and bounty immigration, to
overcome the diversion of workers to the goldfields. In 1852, a select committee of the
Legislative Council recommended that the indented system should be used to recruit
immigrants. Indented immigration, which accounted for most immigrants arriving in
1853 and 1854, involved the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission selecting
emigrants to work for settlers. The emigrants were required to pay a set amount for
their passage in advance, and repay the rest from wages they earned in the colony. The
settler was required to pay half of the amount on hiring an immigrant and to give a
promissory note for the remainder to be paid in one year. However, the commissioners
failed to send sufficient numbers of immigrants, and relied on Irish sources regarded by
the settlers as providing inferior immigrants. This situation led Lieutenant-Governor
William Denison to support the bounty system, initially proposed by the Legislative
Council. Bounty immigration required settlers to apply for immigrants through John
Loch in Hobart or William Sams in Launceston, the government immigration agents
Denison appointed in 1852. Applicants paid the government immigration agent half of
a set amount per immigrant, furnished descriptions of the types of artisan, labourer,
domestic or other servant wanted, and provided a promissory note for the remainder to
be paid on the arrival of each immigrant. The government immigration agent then
provided the required number of ordinary bounty tickets to the applicant, who engaged
any agent in Britain and Europe to select suitable emigrants. The bounty system also
enabled individuals to act as agents by allowing them to purchase blank bounty tickets
for presentation to agents in Britain and Europe to issue as required to emigrants.
After immigration declined in the early 1860s, the colonial government fostered assisted
immigration on two occasions to meet needs arising from labour shortages. In 1864 and
1865, parliamentary select committees, appointed to inquire into the issue of
immigration, recommended that small farmers, who paid their own passages, should be
encouraged to take up free grants of land set aside under the Waste Lands Act of 1863.
The Immigration Act of 1867, resulting from these inquiries, established a Board of
Immigration, which appointed agents in Britain and Europe authorised to issue land
warrants to immigrants, who paid their own passages. The immigrants exchanged the
warrants for land grants after they had lived in Tasmania for five years, but the result
was poor with only 607 hectares being selected before this system was terminated in
1872. Meanwhile, the mining boom from 1871 boosted the influx of miners, but had
led to a scarcity of agricultural labourers by 1880. The recommendation of a
parliamentary select committee, appointed to examine the issue of immigration, led to
the Immigration Act of 1882, which provided a fund to promote immigration through
appointed agents. Bounty tickets were issued to agricultural labourers, domestic
servants and artisans for assisted passages, land certificates were issued enabling
holders to select 728 hectares of waste land, and land orders permitted selection of 303
hectares. Although the provisions for assisted passages and land grants were revoked in
May 1885, the Immigration Act of 1882 led to the immigration of 2,734 persons
between 1883 and 1892.
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Recruitment of Emigrants from Germany
Documented extensively by Hargraves (2003), the recruitment of assisted emigrants
from Germany began in the mid-1850s. A German, Ludwig Carl Wilhelm (William)
Kirchner, who arrived in Australia in 1839 and established a mercantile trading
company at Grafton, New South Wales, was active in arranging passages for Germans
to immigrate to northern New South Wales. In May 1854, Kirchner purchased 500
blank bounty tickets from John Loch, and emigrants he recruited in Germany arrived at
Hobart with 156 on the Lewe van Nyenstein in May 1855, 267 on the America in July
1855, 193 on the Wilhelmsburg in August 1855, and 49 on the San Francisco in
November 1855. Another group of 168 German immigrants, who arrived at Launceston
on the Montmorency in June 1855, were sponsored by a group of prominent landowners
in the northern Midlands.
In January 1869, the Board of Immigration appointed Amandus Friedrich (Frederick)
Buck, a German, who had arrived in Tasmania in 1854, as its immigration agent in
Germany after learning that he was about to return to Germany. In February 1869,
Buck, his second wife, Elizabeth, and five children departed from Hobart on the
Windward for London. By August 1869, Buck was active in Germany recruiting
emigrants. As a consequence of this mission, emigrants he recruited in Germany
arrived at Hobart with 187 on the Victoria in August 1870, 137 on the Figaro in
October 1870 and 198 on the Eugenie in March 1872.
Recruitment of the Procida Emigrants
Provisions in the Waste Lands Act and the Immigration Act encouraged Buck to write
to the Board of Immigration in August 1884 proposing that he should be appointed
immigration agent to Germany, issued with 100 bounty tickets to select suitable
emigrants and authorised to issue land order warrants to emigrants prepared to pay their
own passages. After the Board of Immigration adopted Buck’s proposal, the Governorin-Council approved his appointment in September 1884. Then, the Board of
Immigration drew up regulations for introducing immigrants from Germany of the
agricultural, ordinary labour and domestic classes, and developed a brief document
regarding the colony, which Buck translated into German for the information of
intending emigrants. Some 35 applications were received from Germans living in
Tasmania nominating relatives and friends they wished to sponsor for emigration.
Late in September 1884, Buck departed for Germany, and by the end of December 1884
he was active recruiting emigrants in Germany. In April 1885, he reported to the Board
of Immigration having received the names of 62 German adults, who were willing to
immigrate to Tasmania. In August 1885, he reported to the Board of Immigration that
89 German immigrants had left Hamburg on the Procida. In September 1885, he
supplied the Board of Immigration with a list of 121 immigrants on the Procida, of
whom 118 arrived in Hobart from Melbourne on the Wairarapa on 17 September 1885.
Conditions in Tasmania
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When the immigrants on the Procida arrived in September 1885, Tasmania had
recovered from the depression in the 1860s and 1870s, and entered a period of
prosperity. The two decades following the advent of responsible self-government in
1856 were characterised by economic depression, an out-migration of population,
conservative politicians resisting change, a workforce drawn largely from emancipists
requiring supervision by a repressive Masters and Servants Act, and the maintenance of
a large number of institutions to house convicts, invalids, paupers, lunatics and orphans.
The policy initiated in the 1850s to recruit assisted immigrants, however, led to the
passage of the Waste Lands Act of 1858, the first in a series of laws passed to provide
selectors with blocks of land under 130 hectares able to be secured with deposits. This
land was mostly in densely forested and hilly country on the fringes of established
agricultural and pastoral properties and beyond on the north-west coast, the interior of
the north-east and the Huon Valley. The selectors, drawn mainly from emancipists and
assisted immigrants, often found prosperity elusive, since small blocks were the sites of
hard work and basic living.
The discovery of tin at Waratah in 1871 and in the north-east in 1874 initiated a mining
boom, which was extended by the mining of silver-lead at Zeehan from 1882 and
copper at Queenstown from 1892. Economic revival arising from the mining boom was
strengthened by improvement in the transport network with the opening of railway lines
from Launceston to Deloraine in 1871, Hobart to Western Junction in 1876, Deloraine
to Devonport in 1885, Launceston to Scottsdale in 1889, Devonport to Ulverstone in
1890, and Ulverstone to Burnie in 1901. Political reform emerged with the formation of
a coalition government led by William Giblin (1879-1884), which reformed the Masters
and Servants Act, extended the franchise of eligible voters, reorganised the colony’s
finances, secured the adoption of an equitable taxation policy and initiated an active
program of public works. The reforming government led by Philip Fysh (1887-1892)
introduced legislation to regulate health, employment and charitable institutions,
legalised trade unions, introduced technical education and provided incentives to
establish a university.
Statement of the Research Problem
The purpose of this document is to identify critical information about the origins,
recruitment, immigration and settlement of the Procida immigrants. Evidence obtained
from documentary sources was evaluated to ascertain whether the pattern of the Procida
immigrants’ demographic characteristics reflects Frederick Buck’s activities in
recruiting emigrants, the actions of families and individuals in emigrating as part of a
group or a combination of these factors. Following arrival in Tasmania in 1885,
evidence obtained from archival records and documentary sources was analysed to
determine whether the immigrants’ decisions to settle in particular localities satisfied
needs arising from the scarcity of workers caused by the drift of agricultural labourers to
the mining industry. This evidence was evaluated to ascertain whether the improvement
in economic conditions, that affected Tasmanian society in the late 1870s and 1880s,
influenced the immigrants’ decisions to settle permanently in Tasmania.
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METHOD
The study involved collecting data about the origins, recruitment, immigration and
settlement of 118 immigrants, who arrived on the Procida. Content analyses of archival
records, primary sources, newspaper articles and documents on local history were
undertaken to identify data referring to the Procida immigrants.
Identification of each immigrant’s place of origin was possible, because Hargraves
reported this information from the German language shipping list held in the Mortlock
Library, Adelaide, South Australia. Of particular interest as primary sources were two
accounts written by Procida immigrants. The most important of these accounts is the
autobiography of Adolph Jager written in 1907. In a substantial book of 408 pages,
Jager (1908) includes several chapters describing his experiences as an emigrant during
the voyage of the Procida. Of less value is an account attributed to Rudolf Jestrimski,
then a fifteen-year old. Consisting of a 27-page handwritten document, it appears to be
an unfinished journal of the Procida’s voyage commencing in Hamburg and ending
when the ship docks at London. These documents were reviewed to identify relevant
information that referred to Frederick Buck’s recruitment of emigrants or the
motivations of intending emigrants.
Hargraves reported having initiated work in progress, called The Procida Immigrants to
Tasmania, to identify where the immigrants were living 30 years later, although a report
on the findings was not published. Preliminary findings of this research indicating that
some families, who arrived on the Procida, left Tasmania prompted the present study to
identify where the immigrants settled, who they married and how many children they
had, and where they died and were interred. In 2011, initial findings referring to where
some families and individuals had settled were identified during the course of analysing
the recruitment of the immigrants before they emigrated on the Procida in 1885.
Late in 2015, the research was extended by content analyses of archival records and
genealogies compiled in family history studies. Searches were undertaken on a range
of online resources on the internet, CD-ROMs, microforms and print resources available
for genealogical research. Indexes available on CD-ROMS were the principal resources
searched to identify records about births, marriages and deaths. Searchable databases
on Ancestry.com were searched to identify records on immigration, births, marriages
and deaths, and electoral rolls. The searchable database of digitised newspapers,
contained on Trove, was searched to identify articles and family notices referring to
particular individuals. In addition, genealogies compiled by descendants of some
families proved to be valuable resources in providing details about births, marriages and
deaths.
Review of research literature involved reading articles in historic newspapers, books
and articles published in journals and newsletters on the local histories of Bruny Island,
Collinsvale, the Huon Valley, the Tasman Peninsula and Pyengana, where Procida
immigrants established small farms in clustered settlements.
Reporting the results of the content analyses was accomplished in a sequence of steps.
In the chapter on Origins and Recruitment, an analysis of the demographic
characteristics of the immigrants is reported in relation to each immigrant’s gender, age,
family relationship, occupation and place of origin. In the chapter on Immigration and
Settlement, an analysis of the demographic characteristics of the immigrants is reported
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in relation to each immigrant’s marital status, births of children, death and interment.
Then, a brief description of the initial employment of the immigrants is reported by
citing articles reported in the press. Finally, more detailed descriptions of the
permanent pattern of settlement of the immigrants are reported by referring to particular
families and individuals. It was decided to discuss the pattern of settlement, where
possible, by describing clustered settlements in which families and individuals chose to
live.
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ORIGINS AND RECRUITMENT
The names of the assisted immigrants, who sailed on the Procida for passage to
Tasmania in 1885, are listed in Appendix A. Analysis of their demographic
characteristics, which examined gender, age, family structure, occupation and place of
origin as reported in Appendix A, provides valuable information for determining factors
that led to their recruitment.
Demographic Characteristics
Of the 121 emigrants, one adult male deserted at Antwerp, Belgium and two infants,
one a male and the other a female, died during the voyage. Of the 118 immigrants, who
landed at Hobart, 61 were males and 57 were females. Of these immigrants, 35 were
married and 83 were single. They consisted of 18 family groups, one of which had a
single male parent, and 30 single adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older and 53
children, aged 11 years and younger. The family groups ranged in size from one family
of three persons, three families of four persons, five families of five persons, six
families of six persons, one family of seven persons and two families of eight persons.
The ages of the married males ranged from 27 to 44 years and the ages of the married
females ranged from 21 to 44 years. The ages of the single adult males ranged from 13
to 36 years and the ages of the single adult females ranged from 12 to 40 years. The
occupations of 36 adult male immigrants and one single, adult female immigrant were
stated. Of these immigrants, 12 were listed as ‘farm labourers’, four each were listed as
‘ship carpenters’, ‘joiners’ or ‘cabinet makers’, and two each were listed as ‘locksmiths’
or ‘firemen’. One each was listed as a ‘blacksmith’, ‘bricklayer’, ‘carpenter’, ‘cook’,
‘engine driver’, ‘house carpenter’, ‘labourer’, ‘photographer’ or ‘shoe maker’.
Nationality was stated as Germany for 94 immigrants, Sweden for 16 immigrants,
Switzerland for five immigrants and Denmark for three immigrants. Based on the
detailed information on each immigrant’s place of residence reported by Hargraves, it
was found that a large proportion of the immigrants were listed as residents of
Schleswig-Holstein, particularly from the city of Kiel and its environs. The Danker and
Nicklason families, Louisa Dohrmeyer and Friedrich Fischer lived in central Kiel. The
Anderson, Glau, Jestrimski, Mansson, Peterson (listed in Appendix A under the
surname ‘Alm’) and Stolzenberg families and Fanny Meyer lived in Gaarden, a district
of Kiel on the east coast of Kiel Fjord. The Wiese family and Claude Rieper lived at
Ellerbek, on the east coast of Kiel Fjord, north of Gaarden. The Kruse family lived at
Dietrichsdorf, on the east coast of Kiel Fjord, north of Ellerbek. Heinrich Frerk lived at
Dammdorf, Schleswig-Holstein. Franz Kohl lived at Friedberg, Hesse. The Burczak
and Suhr families and Otto Garso lived in central Hamburg. Adolph Jager lived at
Ottensen, a quarter of Hamburg. Minna Koerbin lived at Altona, a borough of
Hamburg. Hermann Ludemann lived at Veddel, a quarter of Hamburg. Frederick
Kohlhagen lived at Eichholz, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The Ruthsatz family lived
at Ballenberg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Carl Wachholz lived at Schlawe, now
Slawno in the province of Zachoniopomorskie, Poland. The Albat family lived at Halle,
Saxony-Anhalt. The Ulrich family lived at Giebichenstein, Saxony-Anhalt. The
Haustein and Kaden families lived at Niederplanitz, a district of Zwickau, Saxony. Carl
Unger lived at Cainsdorf, Saxony. Carl Zanotti lived at Plosen, Saxony. Paul Selzer
lived at Niklasdorf, now Mikulowice in the Olomouc region of the Czech Republic.
Niels Maae lived at Oster Gesten, Denmark. Hans Johnsen and Niels Neilson lived at
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Norburg on the island of Als, Denmark. Lars Hansson lived at Helingsborg, Sweden.
Ola Ohlson and Per Ohlson lived at Lund, Sweden. The Zollinger family lived at
Mauer in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
Discussion
The analysis of the Procida immigrants’ demographic characteristics showed that ten
families and three individuals, totalling 60 out of 118 emigrants, lived in Kiel or its
hinterland at the time they were recruited. The greatest concentration of six families
and one individual lived in Gaarden, a suburb of Kiel. Although two families and one
individual lived in Hamburg, the remaining six families and 16 individuals lived in
places across a wider area of northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, the Czech
Republic and Switzerland.
First, Buck’s activities during the course of his recruiting missions were investigated to
identify whether they biased the selection of prospective emigrants.
For the recruiting mission in 1869, Buck (1870) produced a 35-page pamphlet for
intending emigrants during the voyage on the Windward, which was published in
English by the Australian and New Zealand Gazette Office, while a German-English
version was published by the Hamburg publisher, Boyes & Geisler. Enquires for the
pamphlet from Jutlanders and Zealanders induced Buck to translate it into Danish, and
have 2,000 copies printed in Copenhagen for distribution to small farmers in these
regions. In 1870, the Board of Immigration reported that Buck visited localities in
Germany where he believed the greatest number of emigrants might be recruited,
establishing agencies in many towns and villages.
Several impediments, however, arose during the course of Buck’s recruiting mission in
1884-1885. On arriving in Hamburg, he found that the German Imperial Government
favoured German colonisation schemes rather than supporting emigration to British
colonies. His relationship with Dugald Buckler, the secretary of the Emigrant and
Colonists Aid Corporation, who was the Board’s immigration agent in London on
whom he depended for funds, proved difficult. Efforts in negotiating payments through
Buckler and making arrangements with ship owners entailed Buck making five trips
between Hamburg and London between December 1884 and April 1885. There is no
account detailing Buck’s activities in recruiting emigrants in Germany or disseminating
the document, which the Board of Immigration produced in 1884, to intending
emigrants. Instead, it seems a great deal of his time was spent in London, or travelling
between London and Hamburg, to secure funds and make arrangements with shipping
companies.
Another means Buck used to recruit intending emigrants was to place advertisements in
German newspapers, which provided a London address for directing correspondence.
An article published in the Tasmanian press, while he was recruiting emigrants in
Germany in 1869-1870, states that Buck appointed a representative in London to
answer enquiries, as reported below.
“That a considerable number of intending emigrants have unavailingly
sought Mr. Buck in London is a fact, for complaints on the subject have
appeared in the Times, and have also been referred to in private letters
received by residents in this colony. An occasional correspondent in
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England writes to us as follows, by the last mail:- “From the August papers I
gleaned some news of the arrival of Mr. Buck in England as Tasmanian
Emigration Agent. I thought this began to look as if your Government
meant business in this line, and if you have received a paper I sent you
containing a letter of mine, dated 21st December last, you will have seen by
the postscript that I drew attention to Mr. Buck’s arrival, and gave his
address, which I learned accidently from a Secretary of one of the
Emigration Aid Societies. On 28th January, 1870, I instructed a friend to
write and make enquiries of Mr. Buck about emigration to Tasmania. On
14th February, I wrote to him myself, making similar enquiries, but,
receiving no reply, I took occasion to call at 15 Buckingham-street, Strand,
and in the lobby I found a notice card referring ‘inquirers on Tasmanian
emigration matters to Mr. Algar, of 8 St. Clement’s Lane, Lombard-street’.
Determined to find out the root of this matter, I went on 19th February to St.
Clement’s Lane, and learned from Mr. Algar that Mr. Buck had been in
Germany all the winter, but he expected him back the second week of
March, and on enquiry I found that upwards of a hundred letters awaited his
return, unopened. On the 4th April, I thought I would call again to see Mr.
Buck; but, alas! Mr. Algar seemed out of patience at his long delayed
return, and at the accumulating pile of unopened letters. Mr. Algar said ‘he
had been looking for his return the past two months, but did not (on the 4 th
April) then know when he would come back’.” (Launceston Examiner, 25
June 1870, p. 2)
Evidence from an independent source suggests that Buck advertised in German
newspapers to recruit the Procida emigrants under similar circumstances. In his
autobiography, Adolph Jager described his own recruitment in the following terms.
“Every day I carefully scanned the daily papers and at last came across
something which seemed to suit, and which did indeed suitably prove to be
the finger-post on the road which led to the success I sought. In one of the
newspapers I saw an advertisement to the effect that the Government of
Tasmania was offering about 200 free passage tickets for approved
emigrants to that place who had any relation there; application to be made to
an address in London which I have forgotten. ...
Directly I read the advertisement I fairly jumped up and ran off with the
paper to my friend’s place, which was not far distant. It was Sunday, by the
way, so he was home, and with some excitement I read the good news to
him. We both decided to try to seize the opportunity, so that very afternoon
I wrote my application, stating that I had an uncle somewhere in Tasmania
but I did not know the exact locality. ...
For a few days after posting my letter I was in feverish expectation. A
fortnight passed without a reply, so I gave up all hope and even further
thought of the matter. This was about Christmas 1884, and I was in constant
work and earning good wages. Many months slipped by and at last in June I
received one day a letter from London notifying that if I had still a desire to
go to Tasmania I must forward 30s. to the London address and be ready to
start by the 5th of July. I did not hesitate, but posted the required money
straight away, all I possessed at the time.” (pp. 257-259)
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Second, evidence that families and individuals emigrated as part of a group was
evaluated by reviewing research literature on conditions in Germany and Scandinavia as
well as accounts of the Procida immigrants during the voyage and after arrival in
Tasmania.
Nearly all emigration from Germany to eastern Australia, which occurred between 1850
and the mid-1880s, coincided with a period of economic recession in Germany, and
poor harvests and political unrest in central Europe. Overpopulation along with lack of
agrarian reform made it increasingly difficult for small farmers and agricultural
labourers, as well as artisans in the cities and towns, to maintain their life styles. The
disbanding of the Danish army in Schleswig-Holstein after the war of 1849-1851, and
the loss of these duchies to Prussia in 1864 caused the emigration of a large number of
young Danes. Mass emigration in Sweden began in the 1860s, following a famine in
rural areas. Improved agricultural practices and the widespread growing of potatoes led
to over-population in rural areas. The failure of crops in the 1860s led to many people
leaving rural areas for cities, where poor conditions were exacerbated by the influx of
people. Between 1870 and 1890, more than 2,000 Swedish families migrated to Kiel,
where many of the men worked in the naval shipyards. Attention given to the gold
rushes in Australia served to make potential emigrants aware of opportunities for
sudden prosperity, and political and religious independence.
As the Jestrimski, Mansson and Peterson families lived in Gaarden, and the Nicklason
family lived in Kiel at the time they were recruited, the families may have known each
other and emigrated as a group. In the narrative on the history of the settlement of
Pyengana, Webb (1975) described the reason why these emigrants left Germany in
terms that suggest a group migration.
“... Some of these men were tradesmen, forced to earn a living at whatever
offered, some had worked on farms previously. News had reached their ears
of new lands being opened up in Australia, where grants of land were being
made to new settlers, so they decided to try their ‘luck’, not knowing what
hardships and privations were awaiting them. All they had in mind was land
to call their own, something they would never have in Europe.
In 1884 this band of men sailed from Hamburg in the vessel ‘Procida’ with
very few belongings apart from the necessities of which they were most in
need. This ship was apparently a trading vessel and carried only a few
passengers as partitions of pine were erected to form cabins for people. On
arrival at their destination these partitions were dismantled and sold for a
princely sum, pine being a prohibited export at that time.
… The party consisted of Sven Mansson, his wife and four children, one
having died during the voyage; Franz Kohl and Lars Hansson, both of whom
were single men; Jacob Jestrimski, his wife and four children; Karl Peterson,
his wife and two children; and Ola Nicklason, his wife and three children,
two others having died in infancy in Germany.” (pp. 15-16.)
Conclusion
After the founding of a unified German state in 1871 few emigrants came from those
regions that formed the heart of the new empire. Instead, they came from eastern
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border regions, initially from Silesia. Later, they came from Saxony, Pomerania and
the Danish border area. Furthermore, emigration from Germany diminished sharply
during the 1880s, when economic conditions improved as a unified Germany
challenged Britain and France to become an imperial power. Since the unification of
the German states and the economic growth of the German Empire were well advanced
in 1885, the Procida emigrants were among the last to depart from Germany motivated
by the promise of new land and sudden prosperity.
Changing conditions arising from German unification account for some of the
difficulties Buck experienced recruiting the Procida emigrants. Furthermore, these
conditions explain why most of the Procida emigrants came from northern Germany as
well as Denmark and Sweden.
The findings of this study show that the method Buck used to recruit the Procida
emigrants probably relied on placing advertisements in German newspapers rather than
visiting localities and interviewing prospective emigrants. It is likely that such a
practice would lead to a random selection of emigrants. The large number of Procida
emigrants, particularly family groups, who originated from Kiel and its environs
suggests that these families probably emigrated as a group.
It is not possible, however, to substantiate these conclusions, because of the lack of
primary documents containing specific information relevant to the recruitment of the
Procida emigrants. Extension of this research to Germany, particularly to Hamburg
and Kiel, could identify emigration records and genealogical information that would
confirm or reject these conclusions.
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IMMIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT
The names of 118 assisted immigrants, who arrived on the Procida in 1885, are listed in
Appendix B. Analysis of their demographic characteristics, which examined spouses,
children, deaths and interments as reported in Appendix B, provides valuable
information for determining factors that affected the immigrants’ fertility, settlement
pattern, mortality and their interaction with social and economic institutions. The
names of children born to the families after arrival, single adults, who subsequently
married, and the children of the families, who subsequently married, are listed in
Appendix C.
Demographic Characteristics
Complete records referring to marital status, death and interment were identified for 89
individuals. Incomplete records referring to marital status, death and interment were
identified for another 17 individuals, while no records were identified for 12
individuals.
Records referring to marriages and births provide evidence to identify the immigrants’
fertility. Records for marriages and births were identified for the members of 17
families, while isolated records for another family were identified. Four individuals
from these families, whose spouses had died within 20 years after arrival, remarried.
Records indicate that 32 children were born to ten of the 18 families after they arrived in
1885. It is likely there are living descendants of 15 families, but the Albat and Ulrich
families died out in the second generation, and a lack of records means that the status of
the Burczak family is unclear.
Of 21 immigrants, who immigrated as single adults, 12 of 13 individuals, for whom
records were identified, married within 11 years after arrival in 1885. Four individuals
married fellow immigrants: Fanny Meyer married Paul Selzer in 1886; and Louisa
Dohrmeyer married Heinrich Frerk in 1887. Of these 12 individuals, eight married a
spouse of German or Scandinavian descent, indicating a marked preference among these
immigrants of the first generation for a partner of the same ethnicity. Records indicate
that 61 children were born to these 12 individuals. Carl Wachholz, the other immigrant,
died without leaving descendants, and records provide insufficient information to
determine his spouse’s ethnicity. Of the other eight single immigrants, Adolph Jager
was already married prior to departure on the Procida, and he nominated his spouse’s
emigration after arriving in Tasmania.
Of 62 individuals, who immigrated as children of the 18 families, 46 individuals
married, 11 individuals never married, one individual died in childhood and the marital
status of the other four individuals is unclear, because of a lack of records. Two
individuals, Rudolph Jestrimski and Matilda Nicklason, from immigrant families,
married. Twenty-five individuals, about three-quarters of the immigrants, married
Anglo-Australians, but 11 individuals, almost one-quarter of the immigrants, married a
spouse of German or Scandinavian descent, indicating a preference among a small
proportion for a partner of the same ethnicity. Of the 46 married individuals, four of
whom married twice, 42 had children, three had no children, and the status of the other
individual is unclear, because of a lack of records. Records indicate that these 42
individuals had 189 children, three of whom were illegitimate and one was adopted.
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Generally, records referring to the dates and ages at death and places of interment
provide evidence to identify the immigrants’ longevity and settlement pattern. Records
for the specific dates of the deaths or funeral services of 99 individuals are reported in
the appendix together with the years for the deaths of another three individuals.
Records for the specific ages at the time of death of 94 individuals are reported in the
appendix.
Records for 47 of 56 married and single adults indicate that two died between 1885 and
1889, one died between 1890 and 1899, four died between 1900 and 1909, 14 died
between 1910 and 1919, eight died between 1920 and 1929, ten died between 1930 and
1939, five died between 1940 and 1949, and three died between 1950 and 1959.
Records for 45 of these individuals show that one was aged between 20 and 29 years
old at death, one was aged between 30 and 39 years old at death, four were aged
between 40 and 49 years old at death, six were aged between 50 and 59 years old at
death, two were aged between 60 and 69 years old at death, 14 were aged between 70
and 79 years old at death, 12 were aged between 80 and 89 years old at death, and five
were aged between 90 and 99 years old at death. At the time of death, the 45
individuals’ mean age was 71.8 years and the median age was 76.0 years.
Records for 55 of 62 individuals, who immigrated as children of the 18 families,
indicate that one died between 1885 and 1889, four died between 1900 and 1909, one
died between 1910 and 1919, five died between 1920 and 1929, seven died between
1940 and 1949, 12 died between 1950 and 1959, 19 died between 1960 and 1969 and
six died between 1970 and 1979. Records for 52 of these individuals show that one was
aged between 1 and 9 years old at death, two were aged between 20 and 29 years old at
death, three were aged between 30 and 39 years old at death, three were aged between
40 and 49 years old at death, one was aged between 50 and 59 years old at death, four
were aged between 60 and 69 years old at death, 13 were aged between 70 and 79 years
old at death, 15 were aged between 80 and 89 years old at death, and ten were aged
between 90 and 99 years old at death. At the time of death, the 52 individuals’ mean
age was 72.9 years and the median age was 78.5 years.
Records for the interment of 89 individuals are reported in the appendix. Of 72
individuals interred in cemeteries in Tasmania, 33 individuals were interred at Cornelian
Bay Cemetery, Hobart, 11 individuals were interred at Pyengana General Cemetery, ten
individuals were interred at St Paul’s Anglican Cemetery, Adventure Bay, four
individuals were interred at Carr Villa Memorial Park, Launceston, four individuals
were interred at Carnarvon Cemetery, Port Arthur, three individuals were interred at
Collinsvale Methodist Cemetery, two individuals were interred at Ulverstone General
Cemetery, two individuals were interred at St Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, Cygnet, one
individual was interred at St John’s Anglican Cemetery, New Town, one individual was
interred at Huonville Congregational Cemetery and one individual was interred at
Geeveston Congregational Cemetery. Of 16 individuals interred in cemeteries in
Victoria, four individuals were interred at Springvale Botanical Cemetery, two
individuals were interred at Boroondara Cemetery, two individuals were interred at
Burwood Cemetery, two individuals were interred at Warringal Cemetery, one
individual was interred at Box Hill Cemetery, one individual was interred at Drouin
Cemetery, one individual was interred at Eaglehawk Public Cemetery, one individual
was interred at Echuca Cemetery, one individual was interred at Fawkner Memorial
Park and one individual was interred at Seymour Pioneer Cemetery. One individual
was interred at Foxton Cemetery in New Zealand.
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Records for the place of death of another 12 individuals are reported in the appendix.
Of these individuals, five died in Victoria at Balwyn, Brighton, Fish Creek, Melbourne
and Templestowe, three died in New South Wales at Hunters Hill, Manly and
Merrylands, two died in Tasmania at Launceston and Pyengana, one died in South
Australia at Adelaide, and one died at Johannesburg, South Africa.
Initial Employment
On arrival, the immigrants were conveyed to the immigration depot at the Brickfields
on the present site of the North Hobart oval. An article published in the press described
the process used for prospective employers to hire the immigrants.
“The Immigration Agent has been in attendance daily at the depot, Argylestreet, since Thursday last, for the purpose of receiving applications from
persons desirous of securing the services of the German immigrants who
arrived Thursday last. Up to Saturday afternoon about twenty of the new
arrivals, principally farm labourers and carpenters, have been engaged.”
(Launceston Examiner, 21 September 1885, p. 3.)
In January 1884, an Italian silk merchant and entrepreneur, Angelo Giulio Diego
Bernacchi (1853-1925) and his family arrived in Melbourne with the intention of
finding a suitable site for silk and wine production. After inspecting Maria Island, the
Bernacchi family moved there in April 1884 and leased the island in November 1884.
Bernacchi hired some of the immigrants to form part of the labour force on the island,
as outlined below.
“A considerable number of German immigrants ex Procida, were engaged
by Signor Bernacchi to-day for Maria Island, and they left by the ketch
Trucanini this evening.” (The Daily Telegraph, 23 September 1885, p. 3.)
Several reports were published in the press on the progress of the immigrants’
employment. On Monday, 12 October 1885, The Mercury published a statement
indicating that all of the immigrants had found employment.
“The last of the German immigrants per the s.s. Procida was engaged on
Saturday, and the Immigration Depot is once more closed. All the
immigrants have obtained good situations, and are scattered all over the
colony, a large proportion having gone to Maria Island. Their employers
are highly pleased with them, their habits of industry and thrift, and general
capability to pick up our manners and customs, rendering them invaluable as
servants.” (The Mercury, 12 October 1885, p. 2.)
Permanent Settlement
In August 1886, Frederick Buck circulated a proposal to the members of both houses of
the Tasmanian Parliament recommending a process for recruiting emigrants from
Germany at no expense to Tasmania. At the request of the Legislative Council, Buck
provided a report on the outcome of his work as an immigration agent. The report
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included the following statement outlining the typical practice, whereby immigrants
from Germany settled in Tasmania.
“The general character of my immigrants is gregarious. They arrive here, go
into country service, and after having saved money enough out of their
wages, make room for others, and look about for a piece of Crown land in
the neighbourhood of where one or two of the older arrivals have settled,
sometimes in most inaccessible parts, and which would be considered as
“not good enough” by most settlers, and there lay the foundations of
“German towns” all over the island. I give one instance out of many similar
ones:- A man and his family of children I brought out in October last put out
of his and his wife’s earnings about 40 pounds into the Savings Bank, goes
and buys 50 acres of Crown land down Channel, purchases his provisions,
and takes down a pair of horses, plough and implements, a cow, sow and
boar, a stock of poultry, etc., builds himself a house out of the material on
the ground, and settles down with some four or five German and
Scandinavian neighbours out of the same ship, also holders of 50 acres each
in a place where there were only one or two foreign settlers before.” (The
Mercury, 26 October 1886, p. 3.)
Several factors played a significant part in the immigrants’ decisions to settle in
particular localities after an initial period of working for employers. The decisionmaking process was affected by four principal factors: initial engagement by an
employer; the immigrant’s demographic background from either an urban or rural
community; the availability of land; and the presence of clustered settlements of
German and Scandinavian immigrants.
Small freehold settlers, salesmen and craftsmen formed most of the German
immigrants, who settled in cities, but they mixed with importers, merchants and
manufacturers. They were from diverse regional and class backgrounds, and found
employment where work was available, but they were well-represented in retailing,
service industries and skilled trades, such as printing, cabinet-making and tailoring, and
were active as musicians and artists. Despite their diverse backgrounds, they formed
German associations and clubs that enabled them to define an ethnic German culture for
themselves and the wider colonial population. The associations and clubs met social
needs, such as annual picnics and occasions for public celebration, but also provided
material support by opening up employment opportunities for newcomers and acted as
mutual benefit organisations by providing basic forms of self-help. By 1886, German
immigrants living in Hobart and its hinterland had formed a German club, which
included 13 Procida immigrants: Johann Stolzenberg, Lars Hansson, Claude Rieper,
Franz Burczak, Paul Selzer, Carl Wachholz, Adolph Jager, Louisa Dohrmeyer of
Hobart, Georg Wiese of New Norfolk, Heinrich Suhr of New Town, Wilhelm Kruse of
Cygnet, and Fanny Meyer and Friedrich Kohlhagen of Sandy Bay. However, most of
the immigrants on the Procida, who initially settled in Hobart, soon left. Only the
Anderson and Stolzenberg families continued to live in Hobart over subsequent
generations.
Johann Anderson, a carpenter, worked in Hobart and the family lived in Sandy Bay.
His daughter, Anna married Henry Stonehouse, an engineer, and the family lived in
New Town, but moved to Huonville in the early 1920s. His son, Gustav, a painter, who
lived with his family in South Hobart, later worked as a railway employee. His
daughter, Elin married Ernest Conrad, a painter and sign writer, and the family lived in
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New Norfolk. His daughter, Eledia married Charles Gluschke, a commercial traveller,
and the family lived in central Hobart.
Johann Stolzenberg, a carpenter, worked in Hobart and the family lived in West Hobart.
Following their marriages, Johann’s daughters, Dora and Johanna and their spouses
worked in the mining industry at Zeehan in the late 1890s. Following the death of her
first husband, Johanna, married Shadrick Pace, who operated a coach building firm,
Pace and Vout, in partnership with Charles Vout. Following Pace’s death in 1921, the
firm, consisting of a brick house, a foundry used as a coach and motor body workshop,
and a blacksmith’s shop was put up for sale, but the site in Barrack Street was leased to
the Tasma Foundry Company until 1928, when it was eventually sold. Johann’s son,
Karl leased a property in Augusta Road, Lenah Valley, where he ran a dairy farm. By
1920, he was purchasing milk from dairy farms and operating as a milk vendor trading
as the Tasmanian Milk Company. By 1930, Karl and Agnes Stolzenberg and their
family had moved to Sydney at first living in Five Dock, but later settling in Hunter’s
Hill.
By the mid-1880s, much of the best land available under the provisions of the Waste
Lands Act had been selected, but abuses by speculators led to amendments. In 1891,
the Crown Lands Act introduced regulations, which attempted to make residence and
improvement conditions for selection, thereby reducing the amount of land alienated.
The Crown Lands Act of 1903 attempted to increase land alienation by allowing for the
selection of second- and third-class land on easy terms, but all land suitable for grazing
was soon alienated. In response to pressure from land reformers, the Closer Settlement
Act of 1907 allowed for large estates in the Midlands and the Northern districts to be
acquired by the government for subdivision into small farms for selectors.
German and Scandinavian immigrants from rural backgrounds preferred to establish
small farms in clustered settlements, sometimes in inaccessible areas where land was
available. Usually they pursued intensive mixed farming, but those who settled near
cities, often became market-gardeners. Once established, their next priority was to
found a German-language church and school, which encouraged other Germans and
Scandinavians to settle in the immediate vicinity. A network of family ties throughout
various clustered settlements and the practice of mutual assistance meant that close links
existed between these settlements. By 1885, clustered settlements of Germans and
Scandinavians already existed in Tasmania, consisting of immigrants, who had arrived
in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. These communities were located at Collinsvale (known
as Bismarck) near Hobart, the Huon Valley, D’Entrecasteaux Channel and Bruny
Island, south of Hobart, Falmouth on the East Coast, St. Marys (known as Germantown)
in the Fingal Valley, Lilydale (known as German Town) and Harford (known as
Heidelberg) in northern Tasmania. Immigrants on the Procida from rural backgrounds
settled in existing clustered settlements at Collinsvale, Adventure Bay on Bruny Island
and the Huon Valley, and created small clustered settlements at Pyengana and on the
Tasman Peninsula.
The history of the settlement of immigrants from Germany and Denmark at Collinsvale
has been documented by Alexander (1986) and Appeldorff (2010). About 1870, land
became available along Sorell Creek, which rose in the hills behind Glenorchy and
joined the Derwent River near New Norfolk. Groups of German and Danish
immigrants were among the first settlers. The Dahlke, Darko (Darkow), Fehlberg, Gall,
Kunde, Radfer, Ratzmann, Totenhoffer (Todtenhofer) and Wenzel families from
Prussia, who arrived on the Victoria in 1870, made up the first group. The Appeldorff,
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Brandstater (Brandstadter), Carlsen, Christensen, Hansen, Johannsen, Nielsen and
Wessing families, mainly from Denmark, who arrived on the Eugenie in 1872, made up
the second group. The Stellmaker (Stellmacher) and Petersen families of German and
Danish descent, who arrived on the Figaro, as well as the Voss family and the Rabe
(Raabe) family, descended from a German seaman, who deserted ship in Hobart, were
other prominent German families, who settled at Collinsvale. In the late 1880s, the
Albat, Suhr and Ulrich families and Carl Zanotti, who arrived on the Procida, settled in
the Collinsvale district. The Albat and Ulrich families farmed in the Collinsvale district
well into the early decades of the twentieth century, while the Suhr and Zanotti families
farmed there until recently, and were involved in various community activities at
Collinsvale.
It can be concluded from narratives on the history of the settlement of immigrants from
Germany in the Huon Valley, documented by Woolley (2006) and Coad (2009, 2010),
that initial engagement by employers was the major factor influencing their decisions to
settle there. The Batge (Batje), Bose and Schultz families, who arrived on the Lewe van
Nyenstein in May 1855, were hired by settlers at Cygnet and Wattle Grove, and later
each family bought land and settled at Wattle Grove. Johannes Kregor (Krieger), a
single man, who arrived on the America in July 1855, and married Dorothea Schultz in
1860, also settled at Wattle Grove. The Kube family, who arrived on the San Francisco
in November 1855, had settled at Wattle Grove by 1858. The Olbrich family, who
arrived on the Figaro in October 1870, had settled at Cygnet by 1874. Friedrich
Kupsch, a single man, who arrived on the Victoria in August 1870, was hired by
Christian Bose, married Charlotte Bender in 1879, and later settled at Cygnet. The
Helm family, who arrived on the Eugenie in March 1872, was hired by George Green
Sherwin, owner of Forest Home at Judbury, and father of operatic singer, Amy
Sherwin. The Helm family settled at Lonnavale. Soon after arrival, the Kruse family,
who arrived on the Procida, settled at Cygnet. Wilhelm Kruse, a master mariner, who
had spent 22 years at sea before emigrating from Germany, worked as a ship builder
and established a property at Lymington called Kruseworth. His son, William Kruse, a
carpenter, built a number of public buildings and more than 200 houses in towns in the
Huon Valley. Carl Wachholz, another immigrant on the Procida, established an
orchard at Hospital Bay near Geeveston.
In the narrative on the history of the settlement of South Bruny Island, Pybus (1988)
documented the establishment of a clustered settlement of immigrants from Germany at
Adventure Bay. In 1876, the Zschachner family, who arrived on the Figaro, leased
Coal Point, the site of a previous survey for coal in 1826 and a mining operation in the
early 1830s. Wilhelm Zschachner, a miner, first shipped 18 tonnes of coal to Hobart in
1877, but it was not until Arthur Risby, a timber and bark merchant, acquired the lease
in 1879, funded the mining operation and engaged Zschachner as manager, that
production peaked at 815 tonnes in 1884. In 1882, Heinrich Dunkel, a quarryman, who
also arrived on the Figaro, came to work in the coalmine, but instead purchased 40
hectares and established a dairy farm. Immigrants from the Procida settled at
Adventure Bay soon after their arrival in Hobart. Herman Kaden, a fitter and turner,
was asked on arrival to go to Adventure Bay to work at the coalmine. The Glau family
arrived at Adventure Bay in 1888, and established a farm. Lars Hansson arrived soon
afterwards, and established a farm. Heinrich Dorloff, a German sailor, who deserted
ship in Sydney in 1874, married Olga Kaden in 1892 and in 1896 they established a
farm at Adventure Bay. On arrival, Olaf Ohlson worked as a blacksmith in Hobart
serving whalers and their ships. Then, he went to Maria Island and worked for
Bernacchi. In the early 1890s, the Ohlson family moved to New Norfolk. In the late
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1890s, the Ohlson family settled on Bruny Island and Olaf worked in a saw-mill before
buying 20 hectares and establishing a blacksmith’s workshop on his property.
The history of the settlement of the Tasman Peninsula after the closure of the Port
Arthur penitentiary in 1877 has been documented by MacFie (1986). Families from
south-eastern rural districts established small communities on the western and northern
coastlines of the Tasman Peninsula that depended on farming, fruit-growing, logging
and fishing. Tourism, however, soon developed at Eaglehawk Neck and Port Arthur.
Although some former officials of the Convict Department continued to administer the
settlement at Carnarvon, new settlers, who purchased buildings at the penal settlement,
were mainly newly arrived immigrants. Among these settlers were Johannis Danker
and Heinrich Frerk, both of whom were joiners. Soon after arriving on the Procida,
they were employed by the government in refitting police offices at Port Arthur.
Following the destruction of the bushfire in 1897, Frerk was contracted by the
Carnarvon Town Board, established in 1889, to renovate the asylum and Danker refitted
the parsonage. Afterwards living at various times at Hobart or Port Arthur, Danker
purchased 18 hectares of land at Point Puer in 1915, and established a farm there. Frerk
established a private boarding house, which became known as the Tasman Villa Hotel,
when a licence was granted in 1905. After 16 years as licensee, Frerk became a guide at
the Port Arthur penal settlement.
In the narrative on the history of the settlement of Pyengana, Webb (1975) concluded
that the availability of land in the district led to the creation of a clustered settlement of
immigrants from the Procida. On arrival, the Jestrimski family moved to Campania,
where Jacob Jestrimski worked as a labourer. Later, the family moved to Maria Island,
where Jacob worked for Bernacchi. In 1887, the Jestrimski family moved to Pyengana
and established a dairy farm renowned for producing a cheddar cheese sold under the
farm’s name, Nalya. The Mansson family went to Maria Island, where Sven Mansson
worked for Bernacchi. In 1887, the Mansson family moved to Pyengana and rented a
block of 20 hectares with a river frontage. In the 1890s, the Mansson family purchased
120 hectares of land at the head of Power’s Rivulet east of Pyengana, where
descendants lived until the property was sold to the Rattray family. The Nicklason
family went to Germantown near St. Marys, and then St Helens. In 1888, the Nicklason
family moved to Pyengana and rented a block of land with a river frontage. The
Peterson family went to Maria Island and then to Collinsvale. In 1888, they moved to
Pyengana and established a dairy farm known as Greendale on a steep block in West
Pyengana. In 1917, Carl and Emma Peterson moved to Hobart, but a son, Vincent
continued to farm a property called Mountain View in West Pyengana. Franz Kohl went
to Plenty in the Derwent Valley, and later to Bruny Island. Soon after marrying
Elizabeth Burns, the daughter of a settler on Bruny Island in 1896, Franz and Elizabeth
Kohl moved to Pyengana and ran a dairy farm.
By 1894, the Haustein family had settled on a farm at Abbotsham, a small hamlet south
of Ulverstone. Although the family continued to farm at Abbotsham until after World
War I, and descendants still live in the district, most family members moved away,
principally settling in Hobart. At this time, Julius and Caroline Haustein moved to
Hobart, but their daughters Anna, Agnes and Camilla together with their spouses had
settled in Hobart following their marriages. Alfred Haustein was a teacher in public
schools at Yolla, King Island, Cygnet and Meander before becoming principal at
Railton in 1938. Retiring as principal of Glen Dhu Primary School in 1950, his family
remained in Launceston.
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Friedrich and Victoria Kohlhagen lived in Sandy Bay and later moved to Kingston.
Sometime after the late 1890s, the Kohlhagen family immigrated to South Africa, and
they were living in Johannesburg where Friedrich died in 1915.
Following their marriage, Neils and Isabel Neilson lived at Sorell and Eaglehawk Neck.
Early in 1906, Neils travelled to New Zealand leaving his family living with Isabel’s
parents at Franklin. Failing to hear from him for over six months, the police initiated a
search and Neils was found working as a farm labourer at Spar Bush, near Winton in
Southland. Late in 1906, his family joined him, but Isabel died in May 1907. After
Isabel’s death, her sister, Lucy, travelled to New Zealand for six months and helped
Neils care for his children. His son, Hans moved to Foxton in Manawatu-Wanganui,
and later joined the army. Neils and most of his family also moved to Foxton, and in
1916, Neils joined the army, but while serving he drowned in March 1923. His
daughter, Isobel married and remained in Southland.
Claude Rieper’s emigration was motivated by the presence of relatives living in
Tasmania. His parents, Heinrich and Anna Rieper lived at New Norfolk, his father
dying in 1891 and his mother in 1912. In the early 1890s, Claude and his brother,
Christian, moved to Strahan, and his sister, Dora, moved to Queenstown, where each
married. Claude worked as an accountant for Gaffney and Harvey, a firm of merchants
at Strahan. In 1906, the Rieper family moved to Rosebery and ran a store until the
business became insolvent in 1907. Then, the Rieper family moved to Zeehan, but by
1914 the family had returned to Hobart. In the early 1920s, the family was living at
Oyster Cove. By 1925, the Rieper family was living in South Melbourne, where Claude
worked as a storekeeper. By 1928, his son, Roydon, had been appointed officer-incharge of the State Electricity Commission at Bairnsdale, where other family members
moved and settled.
Within a few years of arrival, several families of immigrants on the Procida emigrated
from Tasmania and settled in Victoria, possibly attracted by the presence of German
immigrants, who had settled there. The first German immigrants, recruited by William
Westgarth in Silesia and Saxony, arrived in 1849 and 1850, and settled at Grovedale,
near Geelong, Melbourne and the suburbs of Collingwood, Richmond, Hawthorn and
Northcote, as well as further afield at Thomastown, Doncaster, Greensborough and
Harkaway, near Berwick. As a consequence of the gold rush, there was a considerable
increase in the early 1850s in arrivals of German adventurers, who settled in towns on
the gold fields. A third group were rural Germans from South Australia, who
established farms in western Victoria, the Wimmera and the Mallee between the 1850s
and 1890s.
The Burczak family immigrated to Victoria and settled at Carlton. An inquest
conducted at the Melbourne City Morgue into the death of a six-month old infant
named Martha Frances May Burczak on 17 July 1904 found that she died from broncopneumonia (The Age, 21 July 1904, p. 6). As no further records were identified for this
family, it seems likely that the Burczak family left Australia.
The Ruthsatz family had immigrated to Victoria by 1888, when Paulina Ruthsatz died
in child birth at Mangalore in that year. By 1895, the family had settled at Drouin,
where Wilhelm was employed by the Buln Buln Shire Council as a contractor of road
works. In the late 1920s, Emily Ruthsatz moved to Melbourne and lived at
Camberwell, where she died in 1937. Soon after the family moved to Victoria,
Wilhelm’s son, Gustav, worked as a farm labourer at Corop. Later he went to Undera
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and then Myuna, where he became a carpenter. When Cornelia Creek, near Echuca,
was opened up for settlement, he purchased a block of land there and established a
poultry farm.
The Wiese family immigrated to Victoria and settled at Doncaster, a district first settled
by German orchardists. In 1893, Georg Wiese, a builder, established an orchard,
trading as G. Wiese and Sons, run by his three sons. Growing mainly peaches, but also
small fruits and vegetables, the Wiese brothers were recognised for the innovative
method applied in growing peaches, which involved using irrigation for intensive
cultivation. The Wiese brothers were active members of the Doncaster Fruit Growers’
Association.
In 1889, Paul and Fanny Selzer immigrated to Victoria and settled in Hawthorn. By
1896, the Selzer family had moved to Toora in South Gippsland encouraged by the
Village Settlement Scheme to establish a dairy farm at Upper Toora, while Fanny
worked as a nurse in the district. When the small farms in the district failed and were
consolidated into large dairy farms, the Selzer family moved back to Melbourne in the
1930s and lived in South Yarra.
The Zollinger family immigrated to Victoria and settled in Hawthorn, but later moved
to Richmond. Jacob Zollinger also owned an orchard at Sassafras in the Dandenongs.
After marrying, John and Emilie Thomas moved to Foster in South Gippsland, where
they owned a farm. Anna Zollinger married George Penny, a labourer, and the family
lived in Camberwell.
Hans Johnsen had immigrated to Melbourne by 1890, when he married Mary Anne
Whiteside, the widow of James Whiteside, who had died following an altercation at a
hotel in Footscray. By 1894, Hans, Mary and her three children had moved to Bendigo.
In 1899, Johnsen was employed by the Virginia Gold Mining Company, which
operated a reef mine at Eaglehawk, north-west of Bendigo. In June 1905, Johnsen and
another miner, John William Mayberry, were killed in an explosion caused by testing a
hole that had failed to fire on a previous shift with a hand drill and a hammer. Although
her children from the first marriage stayed in Victoria, Mary and the three children from
the second marriage moved to New Zealand, where she married George Grenville, and
died at Napier in 1945.
Carl Unger immigrated to Victoria and settled at Fish Creek, a small town in South
Gippsland settled in the mid-1880s. He was probably related to Andreas Unger,
licensee of the Fish Creek Hotel, who resided there for more than ten years, but died
suddenly in November 1914. Carl Unger died at Fish Creek in October 1917.
No records were identified for several individuals, who emigrated as single adults on
the Procida. Adolf Garso returned to Germany in April 1889. It is likely that Minna
Koerbin went into service as a housekeeper for the Hon. Thomas Reiby, but no records
were identified for her after 1885. No records were identified for Friedrich Fischer,
Hermann Ludemann, Niels Maae and Per Ohlson. These single men, ranging in age
from 24 to 33 years old, undoubtedly left Tasmania for Mainland Australia, foreign
countries or returned to Germany, Denmark or Sweden.
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In the early 1850s, the cessation of convict transportation and the departure of many
men to the gold fields led the colonial government to introduce assisted immigration as
a means of increasing the labour force. In spite of more than 16,600 assisted
immigrants arriving in the 1850s, the slow growth in Tasmania’s population was
affected initially by slow natural increase due to a marked gender imbalance and then
by the rate of emigration exceeding the rate of immigration. From the 1860s to the
1880s, the growth in Tasmania’s population accelerated due to a more equal gender
balance leading to greater natural increase, while the rate of emigration decreased due
to improving economic and social conditions.
The buoyancy of the economy in the mid-1880s is reflected in the decisions of most of
the immigrants, who arrived on the Procida, to settle in Tasmania and to follow the
same occupations. A large proportion of the immigrants were farm labourers from rural
backgrounds, who settled in existing or created new clustered settlements. A degree of
intermarriage within this group as well as with earlier arrivals in the 1850s, 1860s and
1870s substantiates the presence of networks of family ties throughout the various
clustered settlements.
These networks allowed the immigrants to transplant
conservative attitudes and patriarchal social patterns that fitted in well with
contemporary Victorian values. These attitudes were manifest in a German life-style
characterised by diligence, thrift, stability and reliability, qualities for which they were
actively sought as immigrants. Even at Collinsvale, where they formed a substantial
proportion of a mixed population, the German and Scandinavian immigrants recognised
the need to participate in the wider community. They quickly abandoned the land
tenure patterns they had known in Europe as they adapted to new modes of freehold
tenure and different climatic conditions. Participation in the wider community also
encouraged out-marriage with Anglo-Australians, although it occurred at a slower pace
than in the city.
Several families and single adults, who arrived on the Procida, soon immigrated to
Victoria, most of them settling in localities with high concentrations of German settlers.
For instance, the Wiese family settled at Doncaster. They established a presence in the
district’s fruit-growing industry, which was dominated by German families, and married
into the Zander family, a prominent family in the district’s German community.
24
APPENDIX A
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Albat
First
Names
Wilhelm
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Country of Occupation
Status
Origin
Male
Married 36
Halle, Saxony- Germany
Farm
Anhalt
labourer
Albat
Louise
Female
Married 37
Albat
Marianne
Female
Single
9.6
Albat
Carl
Male
Single
7.6
Albat
Lydia
Female
Single
6
Alm (1)
Carl
Petterson
Male
Married 29
Alm
Emma
Christ.
Female
Married 25
Alm
Carl Herm.
Male
Single
3
Alm
Ernst Emil.
Male
Single
0.3
Anderson
Johann
Peter
Male
Married 32
Anderson
Caroline
Female
Married 32
Anderson
Anna
Elvera
Female
Single
10
Anderson
Alma
Matilda
Female
Single
8.3
Anderson
Gust.
Adolf
Male
Single
6
Anderson
Elin Marie
Female
Single
4.3
Halle, SaxonyAnhalt
Halle, SaxonyAnhalt
Halle, SaxonyAnhalt
Halle, SaxonyAnhalt
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
25
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Sweden
Farm
labourer
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Ship
carpenter
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Anderson
First
Names
Elida
Louise
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Status
Female Single
2.6 Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Female Single
0.6 Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Married 33
Hamburg
Country of Occupation
Origin
Germany
Germany
Anderson
Hildegard
Joh.
Burczack
(2)
Burczack
Female
Married 37
Hamburg
Germany
Female
Female
Male
Single
Single
Single
8
7
5
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Germany
Germany
Male
Single
0.6
Hamburg
Germany
Danker
Martin
Franz
Johanna
Wilh.
Elise Marie
Johanna C.
Franz
Henry
Joachim
Willy
Johann
Male
Married 27
Danker
Marie
Female
Danker
Heinrich
Male
Dohrmeyer
Louise
Female
Fischer
Friedrich
H.
Male
Frerck (3)
Heinr.
Fried.
Male
Garso
Glau
Otto Adolf
Claus
Heinrich
Male
Male
Glau
Anna
Magdal.
Female
Burczack
Burczack
Burczack
Burczack
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Married 39
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
3
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
17
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
26.6 Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
24
Dammdorf,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
23
Hamburg
Married 42
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Married 39
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
26
Germany
Germany
House
carpenter
Died
voyage
Joiner
on
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Joiner
Germany
Joiner
Germany
Germany
Photographer
Farm
labourer
Germany
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Glau
Glau
Glau
Hansen (4)
Haustein
(5)
Haustein
Haustein
Haustein
Haustein
Haustein
First
Names
Marie
Christine
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Status
Female Single
12.5 Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Emma Fr.
Female Single
10
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Claudine
Female Single
0.7 Gaarden,
Margaretha
SchleswigHolstein
Lars
Male
Single
30
Helsingborg
Sweden
Julius Alb.
Male
Germany
Caroline
Female
Albine
Anna
Anna
Agnes
Alma
Female
Female
Female
Haustein
Adolf
Alfred
Camilla
Male
Female
Haustein
Emma
Female
Jager
Adolph
Male
Jestrimski
Johann
Jacob
Male
Jestrimski
Amelia
Female
Jestrimski
Rudolph
Male
Married 35
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Married 35
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
12.6 Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
9
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
7.6 Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
5.9 Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
3.9 Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
0.6 Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
32
Ottensen,
SchleswigHolstein
Married 40
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Married 40
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
15
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
27
Country of Occupation
Origin
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Farm
labourer
Farm
labourer
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Locksmith
Germany
Ship
carpenter
Germany
Germany
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Jestrimski
First
Names
Auguste
Jestrimski
Hugo
Jestrimski
Herm.
Alfred
Johnsen
Hans Peter
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Status
Female Single
13
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Single
7
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Single
5
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Single
22
Norburg
Kaden
Carl Herm.
Male
Kaden
Female
Kaden
Augusta
Marie
Olga
Kaden
Anna
Female
Kaden
Hermann
Male
Kaden
Frieda
Female
Koerbin
Minna
Female
Kohl
Franz
Male
Heinrich
Carl Christ. Male
Kohlhagen
Female
Kruse
Wilh.
Heinr.
Male
Kruse
Anna
Marie
Female
Kruse
Wilh.
Heinr. Joh.
Male
Married 39
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Married 41
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
14
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
11.6 Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
10
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
9
Niederplanitz,
Saxony
Single
40
Altona,
Hamburg
Single
24
Friedeberg,
Hesse
Single
27
Eichholz,
MecklenburgWest
Pomerania
Married 44
Dietrichsdorf,
SchleswigHolstein
Married 44
Dietrichsdorf,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
13
Dietrichsdorf,
SchleswigHolstein
28
Country of Occupation
Origin
Germany
Germany
Germany
Denmark
Germany
Germany
Farm
labourer
Engine
driver
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Cabinet
maker
Locksmith
Ship
carpenter
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Kruse
Kruse
Kruse
Ludemann
Maae
Mansson
Mansson
Mansson
Mansson
Mansson
Mansson
Mayer (6)
Niclasson
(7)
Niclasson
First
Names
Anna
Sophie
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Status
Female Single
11
Dietrichsdorf,
SchleswigHolstein
Meta
Female Single
9
Dietrichsdorf,
SchleswigHolstein
Elvira
Female Single
6
Dietrichsdorf,
Dorothea
SchleswigHolstein
Hermann
Male
Single
24
Veddel,
Hamburg
Niels Jacob Male
Single
33
Oster Gesten
S.
Sven
Male
Married 35
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Christina
Female Married 21
Gaarden,
Dora
SchleswigHolstein
Friedrich
Male
Single
7
Gaarden,
Wilh.
SchleswigHolstein
Anna
Female Single
5
Gaarden,
Gertrud.
SchleswigHolstein
Alwine W. Female Single
1.6 Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Emma M.
Female Single
0.3 Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Fanny
Female Single
18.6 Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Ola
Male
Married 41
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Horna
Female Married 41
Kiel,
Jorson
SchleswigHolstein
29
Country of Occupation
Origin
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Carpenter
Denmark
Shoemaker
Germany
Farm
labourer
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Died
voyage
Sweden
Germany
Cook
Sweden
Farm
labourer
Sweden
on
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Niclasson
First
Names
Mathilde
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Status
Female Single
7
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Single
5
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Single
2
Kiel,
SchleswigHolstein
Male
Single
19
Norburg
Niclasson
Carl Alfred
Niclasson
Heinr.
Oscar
Nielsen
Niels Peter
Denmark
Ohlsson (8) Ola
Ohlsson
Per
Male
Male
Single
Single
24
25
Sweden
Sweden
Rieper
Claus
Detlev
Male
Single
17
Ruthsatz
Wilhelm
Male
Ruthsatz
Pauline
Female
Ruthsatz
Gustav
Wilhelm
Male
Ruthsatz
Friedrich
Alb.
Male
Schurbohn
August
Male
Selzer
Paul
Male
Stolzenberg Joh. Heinr. Male
A.
Lund
Lund
Ellerbek,
SchleswigHolstein
Married 28
Ballenberg,
MecklenburgWest
Pomerania
Married 26
Ballenberg,
MecklenburgWest
Pomerania
Single
2
Ballenberg,
MecklenburgWest
Pomerania
Single
0.3 Ballenberg,
MecklenburgWest
Pomerania
Single
30
Ebeshagen,
SchleswigHolstein
Single
24.6 Niklasdorf
Married 40
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
30
Country of Occupation
Origin
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Germany
Germany
Farm
labourer
Blacksmith
Farm
labourer
Farm
labourer
Fireman
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Deserted
Antwerp
Germany
Germany
Joiner
Ship
carpenter
at
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
First
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Names
Status
Stolzenberg Margaretha Female Married 38
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Stolzenberg Dora
Female Single
15
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Stolzenberg Johanna
Female Single
11
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Stolzenberg Anna Cath. Female Single
8
Gaarden,
SchleswigHolstein
Stolzenberg Carl Joh. Male
Single
6
Gaarden,
Chr.
SchleswigHolstein
Suhr
Joach.
Male
Married 27
Hamburg
Heinr.
Suhr
Anna
Female Married 30
Hamburg
Catherine
Suhr
Joh. Heinr. Male
Single
6
Hamburg
Suhr
Joachim H. Male
Single
4
Hamburg
W.
Suhr
Carl Joh. Male
Single
2
Hamburg
H.
Ullrich (9) Carl
Male
Married 44
Giebichenstein,
Saxony-Anhalt
Ullrich
Anna
Female Single
16
Giebichenstein,
Saxony-Anhalt
Ullrich
Louise
Female Single
14
Giebichenstein,
Saxony-Anhalt
Ullrich
Wilhelmine Female Single
10
Giebichenstein,
Saxony-Anhalt
Unger
Carl
Male
Single
36
Cainsdorf,
Hermann
Saxony
Wachholz
Carl
Male
Single
24
Schlawe
Friedrich
Alb.
Wiese
Georg
Male
Married 41
Ellerbek,
Hermann
SchleswigA.
Holstein
31
Country of Occupation
Origin
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Farm
labourer
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Labourer
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Fireman
Germany
Cabinet
maker
Germany
Bricklayer
APPENDIX A
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
(After Hargraves, 2003, pp. 109-222)
Surname
Wiese
Wiese
Wiese
Wiese
Wiese
Wiese
Zanotti
Zollinger
Zollinger
Zollinger
Zollinger
Zollinger
First
Gender Marital Age Native Place
Names
Status
Margaretha Female Married 37
Ellerbek,
SchleswigHolstein
Heinrich
Male
Single
11
Ellerbek,
Carl A.
SchleswigHolstein
Johannes
Male
Single
7
Ellerbek,
Christian
SchleswigHolstein
Dorothea
Female Single
5
Ellerbek,
Magdalona
SchleswigHolstein
Gretha
Female Single
3
Ellerbek,
SchleswigHolstein
Georg
Male
Single
0.6 Ellerbek,
Gottlieb
SchleswigHeinr.
Holstein
Carl
Male
Single
33
Plosen, Saxony
Rudolph
Zac.
Catharina
Rudolph
Anna
Marie
Johanna
Country of Occupation
Origin
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Male
Married 38
Mauer
Female
Male
Female
Married 31
Single
5.6
Single
3
Mauer
Mauer
Mauer
Cabinet
maker
Switzerland Cabinet
maker
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Female
Single
Mauer
Switzerland
0.1
Germany
NOTES
(1) The Alm family subsequently adopted the surname ‘Peterson’.
(2) The Burczack family, incorrectly listed by Hargraves as ‘Burezack’, subsequently spelt their
surname as ‘Burczak’.
(3) Heinrich Frerck subsequently spelt his surname as ‘Frerk’.
(4) Lars Hansen subsequently spelt his surname as ‘Hansson’.
(5) The Haustein family subsequently spelt their surname alternatively as ‘Haustein’ or ‘Houstein’.
(6) Fanny Mayer subsequently spelt her surname as ‘Meyer’.
(7) The Niclasson family subsequently spelt their surname as ‘Nicklason’.
(8) Ola Ohlsson subsequently spelt his surname as ‘Ohlson’
(9) The Ullrich family subsequently spelt their surname as ‘Ulrich’.
32
APPENDIX B
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Name
Albat,
Wilhelm
(1)
Albat,
Louise
Date
Birth
c. 1849
of Name of Date
of Number
Spouse
Marriage of
Children
Louise
3
c. 1848
Wilhelm
Albat
Albat,
Marianna
c. 1875
Albat, Carl
7/12/1878
Moss
Allan
Woods
unmarried
Albat,
Lydia
c. 1880
Anderson,
Johann
Peter
Anderson,
Caroline
Anderson,
Anna
Elvera
Anderson,
Alma
Matilda
Anderson,
Gustav
Adolph
c. 1875
Anderson,
Elin Marie
c. 1881
Anderson,
Eledia
Lucy
c. 1883
Anderson,
Hildegard
Johanna
c. 1885
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
12/6/1925
Age
at
Death
75
Place
of
Death
or
Interment
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Methodist
Cemetery,
Collinsvale
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Methodist
Cemetery,
Collinsvale
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
3
4/7/1919
0
28/4/1951
70
0
6/6/1915
37
unmarried
0
8/7/1926
46
c. 1853
Caroline
Lindgren
6
16/10/1934 81
c. 1854
Johann
Peter
Anderson
Henry
1/7/1911
John
Stonehouse
unmarried
6
16/8/1930
76
4
19/7/1967
(service)
92
0
12/5/1964
(service)
86
27/3/1905
5
5/6/1961
(service)
82
5/6/1905
8
14/9/1967
(service)
86
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
5/9/1972
(service)
89
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
c. 1878
c.1879
Sarah
Emma
Mabel
Johnson
Ernest
Walter
Augustus
Conrad
Charles
William
Gluschke
(2)
Hjalmar
Achaton
Hansen
9/2/1921
27/12/1904 3
11/12/1909 1
33
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date
Birth
Burczak,
Martin
Franz
Burczak,
Johanna
Wilhelmine
Burczak,
Elise
Marie
Burczak,
Johanna
Burczak,
Franz
Henry
Danker,
Johannes
Dederik (3)
Danker,
Marie
c. 1852
Danker,
Heinrich
Dederick
c. 1878
of Name
Spouse
c. 1848
4
c. 1877
c.1878
c. 1880
13/5/1858
Marie
1
15/9/1939
81
c. 1846
1.
Dohrmeyer;
2. Johannis
Dederick
Danker
1.
Amy
Plummer;
2.
Ethel
Sarah Ann
Banks
Heinrich
Friedrich
Frerk
1. 1;
2. 1
24/8/1926
80
1. 4;
2. 0
8/10/1974
(service)
96
Dohrmeyer, c. 1868
Louisa
Fischer,
Friedrich
Frerk,
Heinrich
Friedrich
(4)
Garso, Otto
Adolf (5)
Glau, Claus
Heinrich
of Date
of Number Date
of Age
Place
of
Marriage of
Death or at
Death or
Children Funeral
Death Interment
4
c. 1859
13/3/1861
1.
11/9/1905;
2.
18/2/1919
Carnarvon
Cemetery,
Port Arthur
Carnarvon
Cemetery,
Port Arthur
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
30/11/1887 3
25/12/1916 48
Carnarvon
Cemetery,
Port Arthur
Louisa
Dohrmeyer
30/11/1887 3
27/5/1944
Carnarvon
Cemetery,
Port Arthur
Anna
Magdalona
Stroh
5
83
c. 1862
c. 1843
34
7/2/1917
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure
Bay
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date
Birth
of Name of Date
of Number
Spouse
Marriage
of
Children
Glau, Anna c. 1846
Claus
5
Magdalena
Heinrich
Glau
Date
of Age
Death or at
Funeral
Death
23/7/1914
Glau,
3/10/1872
Marie
Christine
Glau,
c. 1876
Emma
Frederica
Glau,
c. 1884
Claudine
Margaretha
Frederick
Archibald
Davis
Frederick
Leslie
Chinnery
William
Edward
Francis
1/8/1891
11
12/3/1954
1904
7
1959
19/7/1914
1
20/7/1956
81
71
Hansson,
Lars
25/11/1855 Augusta
Dunkel
(6)
13/7/1890
9
17/11/1927 73
Haustein,
Julius
Alban
Haustein,
Caroline
Sophia
Haustein,
Anna
Alwina
Haustein,
Agnes
Anna (7)
5/5/1849
Caroline
Sophia
Rank
Alban
Julius
Haustein
George
Alfred
Cope
James
Hassett
1872
9
27/8/1919
70
1872
9
20/9/1934
84
18/10/1897
3
26/11/1947 75
2/2/1900
5
16/3/1962
Edward
Anthony
Smith
1.
Kathleen
Mary
Medwin;
2.
Vera
Josephine
Harvey
29/12/1909
4
27/10/1959 79
(service)
12/5/1850
26/1/1873
16/8/1876
Haustein,
1/12/1879
Alma May
(8)
Haustein,
19/10/1880
Alfred
Adolphus
1.
1. 1;
19/12/1910; 2. 6
2.
27/4/1916
35
8/10/1965
85
84
Place
of
Death or
Interment
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure
Bay
Carr Villa
Memorial
Park
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure
Bay
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure
Bay
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Died
at
Manly,
New South
Wales
Ulverstone
General
Cemetery
Carr Villa
Memorial
Park
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
Haustein,
Camilla
(9)
Haustein,
Emma
Rose
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date
Birth
of Name of Date
of Number
Spouse
Marriage of
Children
16/10/1882 Hubert
9/10/1907 4
Thomas
Claude
Applebee
10/2/1885 Llewellyn 10/3/1909 3
Thomas
Bakes
Jager,
c. 1853
Adolph
(10)
Jestrimski, 1844
Johann
Jacob (11)
Jestrimski, c. 1844
Amelia
Rosalia
Jestrimski, 17/4/1870
Rudolph
Emil (12)
Jestrimski, c. 1872
Martha
Jestrimski, 31/5/1879
Hugo
Jestrimski, 2/3/1880
Alfred
Herman
(13)
Johnsen,
c. 1863
Hans
Peter (14)
Kaden,
Carl
Herman
c. 1846
Johanne
Elizabeth
Alwyn
Amelia
Rosalia
von
Kluck
Johann
Jacob
Jestrimski
Matilda
Amanda
Nicklason
William
James
Terry
Daisy
Eliza
Terry
Janette
Beechey
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
27/4/1969
Age
at
Death
86
Place
of
Death
or
Interment
Cornelian
Bay Cemetery
16/5/1965
80
Died
Adelaide,
South
Australia
6
21/4/1921
76
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
6
25/10/1927 84
13
14/8/1948
0
24/2/1897
78
28/10/1896 3
29/10/1902 30
29/4/1908
4
25/6/1966
88
11/9/1907
1
6/10/1956
(service)
76
Mary
Anne
Martin
27/11/1890 3
8/6/1905
45
Auguste
Marie
Trommer
1868
11/2/1901
55
4
36
at
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Carr
Villa
Memorial
Park
Ulverstone
General
Cemetery
Eaglehawk
Public
Cemetery,
Victoria
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure
Bay
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
of Name of Date
of Number
Spouse
Marriage of
Children
21/11/1843 Carl
1868
4
Herman
Kaden
c. 1871
Heinrich
1/6/1892
11
Dorloff
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
9/11/1936
Kaden,
Anna
c. 1874
Robert
Miller
9/9/1896
4
8/7/1951
Kaden,
Hermann
c. 1875
26/4/1904
6
21/2/1958
Kaden,
Frieda
c. 1876
24/2/1904
2
23/5/1946
Koerbin,
Minna (16)
Kohl,
Franz
Heinrich
(17)
Kohlhagen,
Friedrich
Carl
Kruse,
Wilhelm
Heinrich
(19)
Kruse,
Anna
Maria (20)
Kruse,
Wilhelm
Heinrich
Johann
(21)
Kruse,
Anna
Sophia
Kruse,
Meta
c. 1845
Clara
Anna
Kaden
Edward
David
Murray
8/8/1861
Elizabeth
Burns
8/7/1896
8
8/10/1953
92
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
c. 1858
Victoria
Schwan
(18)
Anna
Marie
Lembeck
22/4/1889
3
28/8/1915
55
4
8/1/1918
77
Died
at
Johannesburg,
South Africa
Anglican
Cemetery,
Cygnet
4
23/10/1923 83
Kaden,
Auguste
Marie (15)
Kaden,
Olga
Date
Birth
1/7/1840
1/1/1840
c. 1872
c. 1873
c. 1875
Wilhelm
Heinrich
Kruse
Ethel
Lomas
Henry
Charles
Wolf
unmarried
13/1/1966
Age
Place of Death
at
or Interment
Death
92
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure Bay
95
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure Bay
77
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure Bay
83
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure Bay
69
Anglican
Cemetery,
Adventure Bay
Anglican
Cemetery,
Cygnet
Congregational
Cemetery,
Huonville
29/11/1899 12
14/3/1970
97
15/1/1919
0
15/7/1964
(service)
90
Cornelian Bay
Cemetery
0
10/7/1973
97
Cornelian Bay
Cemetery
37
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Name
Date
Birth
Kruse,
Elvira
Dorothea
Ludemann,
Hermann
Maae,
Niels
Jacob
Mansson,
Sven
c. 1879
Mansson,
Christina
Dora
Mansson,
Friedrich
Wilhelm
(22)
Mansson,
Anna
Gertrude
Asserina
Mansson,
Emma
Matilda
Meyer,
Fanny
Adelgunde
(23)
Nicklason,
Ola (24)
c. 1864
of Name
Spouse
of Date
of Number
Marriage of
Children
unmarried
0
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
5/11/1944
Age
at
Death
65
Place
of
Death or
Interment
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
1.
Margaretha
Wilhelmina;
2. Christina
Dora Kahlar
Sven
Mansson
1. 2;
2. 5
8/12/1917
70
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
5
11/1/1956
92
c. 1878
unmarried
0
29/7/1900
22
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Died
at
Launceston,
Tasmania
23/5/1881
George
Watt
27/11/1899 6
27/8/1961
80
c. 1885
Donald
Crawford
16/3/1910
21/7/1964
79
c. 1866
Paul Selzer
18/12/1886 11
11/9/1946
79
c. 1845
Karna
4
20/7/1933
88
Nicklason,
Karna
c. 1844
Ola
Nicklason
4
29/5/1914
70
Nicklason,
Matilda
Amanda
(25)
8/7/1878
Rudolph
Emil
Jestrimski
13
7/4/1951
72
c. 1861
c. 1852
c. 1847
24/2/1897
5
38
Springvale
Botanical
Cemetery,
Victoria
Carr Villa
Memorial
Park
Burwood
Cemetery,
Victoria
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date
Birth
of Name
Spouse
of Date
of Number
Marriage of
Children
5/6/1910
9
Nicklason,
Carl Alfred
c. 1880
Nicklason,
Heinrich
Oscar
Neilson,
Neils Peter
c. 1884
11/8/1866
Isabel Mary 25/8/1890
Jane
Batchelor
Ohlson,
Olaf (26)
16/1/1861
Hilda
Petersen
Ohlson, Per
Peterson,
Carl
c. 1860
31/10/1856 Emma
Christina
Olofsson
9/5/1860
Carl
Peterson
Peterson,
Emma
Christina
(27)
Peterson,
Carl
Herman
Amelia
Katherine
Oldham
unmarried
7
19/12/1887 6
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
25/2/1956
Age
at
Death
76
4/11/1888
5
30/3/1923
56
30/12/1932 71
83
Place
of
Death or
Interment
Pyengana
General
Cemetery
Died
at
Pyengana,
Tasmania
Foxton
Cemetery,
New
Zealand
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
11
25/7/1940
11
18/12/1957 97
3
14/4/1961
78
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
St John’s
Anglican
Cemetery,
New Town
Springvale
Botanical
Cemetery,
Victoria
Drouin
Cemetery,
Victoria
c. 1882
Urania
Reading
28/8/1926
Peterson,
Ernst Emil
c. 1885
Mary
Magdalene
Hansson
25/10/1915 3
4/2/1924
38
Rieper,
Claude
Detlev
c. 1868
Catherine
Thyrna
Stubbings
9/11/1892
3
13/4/1946
77
Ruthsatz,
Wilhelm
c. 1857
1. 4;
2. 7
1/11/1916
59
Ruthsatz,
Paulina
c. 1859
1. Paulina 2. 1893
Simman; 2.
Emily Jane
Hart
Wilhelm
Ruthsatz
4
1888
28
39
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Seymour
Pioneer
Cemetery,
Victoria
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
Ruthsatz,
Gustav
Wilhelm
(28)
Ruthsatz,
Friedrich
Alban
Selzer, Paul
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date of Name
Birth
Spouse
c. 1883
Lily
Day
of Date
of Number
Marriage of
Children
Ada 1919
1
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
26/9/1949
Age
at
Death
66
Place
of
Death
or
Interment
Echuca
Cemetery,
Victoria
Burwood
Cemetery,
Victoria
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
c. 1885
c. 1860
Stolzenberg, c. 1845
Johann
Heinrich
August
Stolzenberg, c. 1847
Margaretha
(29)
Stolzenberg, c. 1870
Dora
Stolzenberg, c. 1874
Johanna
Frederica
Agnes
Stolzenberg, c.1877
Anna
Catherine
Stolzenberg, c. 1879
Karl Johann
Christian
Suhr,
c. 1858
Johann
Joachim
Heinrich
Suhr, Anna c. 1855
Katherine
Dorothee
Fanny
Adelgunde
Meyer
1.
Margaretha;
2.
Julia
Maria
Lehmann
Johann
Heinrich
Stolzenberg
Charles
Rudolph
Richter
1. William
Henry
Rumbold;
2. Shadrick
John Pace
unmarried
18/12/1886 11
7/10/1948
87
2. 5/5/1900 1. 4;
2. 0
3/8/1939
93
4
1/9/1896
49
1
27/9/1901
29
Agnes
Hardy
25/12/1902 2
8/5/1968
Anna
Katherine
Dorothee
3
8/9/1926
68
Johann
Joachim
Heinrich
Suhr
3
22/7/1933
78
2/1/1897
1. 4/3/1896 1. 3;
2.
2. 1
17/11/1906
0
10/10/1968 94
(service)
25/9/1944
(service)
40
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Died
at
Melbourne,
Victoria
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Died
at
Hunters Hill,
New South
Wales
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date of Name of Date
of Number
Birth
Spouse
Marriage of
Children
c. 1879
Maria
27/7/1912 2
Hagar
Snape
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
8/9/1966
(service)
Age
at
Death
86
Place
of
Death
or
Interment
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Suhr,
Johann
Heinrich
Emile
Suhr,
c. 1881
Joachim
Heinrich
Willy
Suhr, Carl c. 1883
Johann
Barbara
Wilson
21/9/1908
3
26/8/1971
(service)
90
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Florence
May Snape
28/2/1912
5
1/6/1945
62
Ulrich, Carl c. 1841
(30)
Louisa
Brandstater
3
22/8/1917
83
Ulrich,
Anna Maria
c. 1869
unmarried
0
9/7/1915
58
Ulrich,
c. 1872
Louise
Caroline
Ulrich,
c. 1876
Wilhelmina
Bertha
Unger, Carl c. 1849
Hermann
unmarried
0
23/3/1966
(service)
94
unmarried
0
1965
89
Wachholz,
Carl
Friedrich
Alban
Wiese,
Georg
Herman
August
c. 1861
Matilda
c. 1844
1.
Margaretha
Magdalena
Elizabeth
Dickmann;
2.
Annabelle
Campbell
Died
at
Merrylands,
New South
Wales
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Cornelian
Bay
Cemetery
Died
at
Brighton,
Victoria
Died at Fish
Creek,
Victoria
Congregational
Cemetery,
Geeveston
Warringal
Cemetery,
Victoria
15/10/1917
2. 1909
0
15/3/1911
1. 6;
2. 1
20/10/1919 75
41
49
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Name
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
Date of Name of Date
of Number
Birth
Spouse
Marriage of
Children
Wiese,
c. 1848
George
6
Margaretha
Herman
Magdalena
August
Elizabeth
Weise
Wiese,
c. 1874
unmarried
0
Heinrich
Carl (31)
Wiese,
c. 1878
1.
1. 1905;
1. 2;
Johannes
Florence
2. 1916
2. 1
Nicholaus
Catherine
Christian
Sweeney;
(32)
2. Phoebe
Matilda
Smith
Wiese,
c. 1880
Carl
1909
2
Dorothea
Heinrich
Magdalona
Zander
(33)
Wiese,
c. 1882
Henry
1908
0
Gretha
Otto
Wiese,
c. 1885
Linda
9/9/1908
4
George
Elsie Otto
Henry
Zanotti,
16/6/1852 Matilda
20/1/1887 8
Johann
Henrietta
Carl
Fehlberg
(34)
Zollinger,
c. 1850
1.
2. 1890
1. 3;
Jacob
Catharina
2. 2
Rudolf
Zabelberg;
2. Emily
Ann
Wheeler
Zollinger,
c. 1854
Jacob
3
Catharina
Rudolf
Zollinger
Zollinger,
c.1880
Margaret
16/6/1914
Rudolf
Ryan
Zollinger,
c. 1882
George
1911
4
Anna
Thomas
Elizabeth
Penny
42
Date
of
Death or
Funeral
22/5/1904
Age
at
Death
56
22/6/1903
Place
of
Death
or
Interment
Warringal
Cemetery,
Victoria
Died
at
Templestowe,
Victoria
Died
at
Balwyn,
Victoria
1/10/1920
41
14/7/1928
48
Box
Hill
Cemetery,
Victoria
7/1/1959
74
16/1/1939
86
Fawkner
Cemetery,
Victoria
Methodist
Cemetery,
Collinsvale
27/7/1901
(service)
51
Boroondara
Cemetery,
Victoria
16/11/1889 35
(service)
Boroondara
Cemetery,
Victoria
5/1/1954
Springvale
Botanical
Cemetery,
Victoria
70
APPENDIX B
(cont.)
Zollinger,
Emilie
Johanna
LIST OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN TASMANIA ON THE
PROCIDA, 1885
c. 1885
John
Richard
Thomas
23/11/1904 6
22/6/1976
92
Springvale
Botanical
Cemetery,
Victoria
NOTES
(1) An article on the death of Wilhelm Albat was published in The Examiner under the title “Found
dead in garden” on 13 June 1915, p. 5.
(2) Charles William Gluschke was the second son of Wilhelm Gluschke, who arrived on the
Victoria in August 1870. During World War I, the family adopted the surname ‘Gluskie’ under
which they were interred.
(3) An article on the 80th birthday anniversary for Johannis Danker was published in The Mercury
under the title, “Point Puer hermit” on 10 May 1938, p. 19 and on 13 May 1939, p. 8. An obituary on
Johannis Danker was published in The Mercury on 18 September 1939, p. 9.
(4) An article on the 80th birthday anniversary for Heinrich Frerk was published in The Mercury
under the title, “Guide’s birthday” on 14 March 1941, p. 4.
(5) Jager (1908) reported that Otto Adolf Garso went to Melbourne after a few years, where he did
well, and not long after returned to Germany to be with his mother in her declining years (p. 287). In
April 1889, Otto Garso returned to Bremen, Germany on the Nurnberg.
(6) Augusta Dunkel arrived as a three-year old child on the Figaro in October 1870.
(7) Agnes Anna Haustein had an illegitimate son born on 13 March 1894.
(8) Alma May Haustein had an illegitimate daughter born on 8 September 1897.
(9) Articles concerning a legal case for the failure of George Hastie to pay maintenance to Camilla
Haustein for an illegitimate child, born in December 1900, were reported in The North Western
Advocate and Emu Bay Times on 13 November 1900, p. 2 and 26 March 1904, p. 2.
(10) Jager (1908) reported that he nominated his wife, Johanne Elizabeth Alwyn Jager, to immigrate
to Tasmania, and she arrived on the Liguria in August 1886. In 1890, they left Tasmania and settled
in Melbourne. In March 1891, Johanne returned to Germany on the Kaiser Wilhelm II and later they
divorced. After working in various occupations in Melbourne, Adolph Jager immigrated to the USA
in 1908 and settled in Los Angeles.
(11) Articles on Jacob and Amelia Jestrimski’s golden wedding were published in The Daily
Telegraph on 4 February 1920, p. 3 and the North-Eastern Advertiser on 6 February 1920, p. 3. An
article on the death of Jacob Jestrimski as a result of a fall from a horse was published in The
Examiner on 6 May 1921, p. 6.
(12) An article on Rudolph and Matilda Jestrimski was published in the North-Eastern Advertiser
under the title “Golden wedding” on 22 April 1947, p. 2. Articles on the death of Rudolph Jestrimski
as a result of being struck by a falling branch from a tree during a storm were published in The
Examiner on 16 August 1948, p. 2 and The Mercury on 16 August 1948, p. 1. An obituary on
Rudolph Jestrimski was published in The Examiner on 17 August 1948, p. 2.
(13) An article on Alfred Jestrimski was published in The Advocate under the title “Retired” on 15
February 1950, p. 11.
(14) Articles on the death of Hans Peter Johnsen as a result of a mining accident were published in
The Argus under the titles “Shocking mine fatality” on 9 June 1905, p. 2 and “Bendigo mining
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tragedy” on 10 June 1905, p. 17, The Australasian under the title “Shocking mine accident” on 10
June 1905, p. 38, and The Age under the title “Misuse of explosives” on 10 June 1905, p. 12.
(15) An obituary on Auguste Kaden was published in The Mercury under the title, “Mrs A. M.
Kaden: Adventure Bay pioneer” on 13 November 1936, p. 7.
(16) Minna Koerbin was nominated by Otto Gustav Koerbin (1846-1927), who arrived on the
Eugenie in March 1872. Minna served as matron on the Procida, and was hired as a housekeeper by
the Hon. Thomas Reibey (1821-1912), the member for Westbury in the House of Assembly and the
owner of Entally and The Oaks near Carrick.
(17) Articles on Elizabeth and Franz Kohl were published in The Examiner under the title, “To
celebrate golden wedding” on 4 July 1946, p. 6 and the North-Eastern Advertiser under the title,
“Golden wedding: Kohl-Burns” on 12 July 1946, p. 3.
(18) Victoria Schwan was the daughter of Wilhelm August Schwan, who arrived on the Figaro in
October 1870.
(19) An obituary on Wilhelm Kruse was published in the Huon Times on 11 January 1918, p. 2.
(20) An obituary on Anna Kruse was published in the Huon Times on 26 October 1923, p. 2.
(21) An article on William and Ethel Kruse was published in The Mercury under the title, “Golden
wedding for Huon couple” on 29 November 1949, p. 6.
(22) Articles on the inquest into the death of Wilhelm Mansson due to gunshot wounds were
published in The Examiner under the title “Justifiable homicide” and The Daily Telegraph under the
title “The Garibaldi tragedy” on 1 August 1900, p. 5.
(23) Obituaries on Fanny Meyer were published in The Argus under the title, “Mrs F. A. Selzer” on
12 September 1946, p. 7 and in The Age under the title, “Gippsland pioneer” on 12 September 1946,
p. 6.
(24) Obituaries on Ola Nicklason were published under the title, “Pyengana pioneer” in The
Mercury on 25 July 1933, p. 5 and the North-Eastern Advertiser on 25 July 1933, p. 3.
(25) Obituaries on Matilda Nicklason were published in The Examiner on 13 April 1951, p. 4 and in
the North-Eastern Advertiser on 13 April 1951, p. 3.
(26) Olaf Ohlson met Hilda Petersen, a waitress or maid working in a tavern in Hamburg, while
waiting to board the Procida. Olaf Ohlson sponsored Hilda Petersen, who arrived at Hobart on the
Coptic on 20 November 1887 and they married a month later on Maria Island.
(27) Articles on the 86th and 90th birthday anniversaries for Emma Peterson were published in The
Mercury on 9 May 1946, p. 15 and 11 May 1950, p. 8.
(28) An obituary on Gustav Ruthsatz was published in The Riverine Herald under the title, “Mr G.
Ruthsatz” on 29 September 1949, p. 2.
(29) An article on the death of Margaret Stolzenberg as a result of suicide was published in The
Mercury under the title, “Suicide at North Hobart” on 2 September 1896, p. 2.
(30) Carl Ulrich’s wife, whose maiden name was Brandstater, was related to the Brandstater family,
who arrived on the Eugenie in March 1872 and settled at Collinsvale. Emanuel Brandstater
nominated Karl Ulrich, possibly a son of Carl Ulrich, who arrived on the Polosi in August 1883, and
in turn, he sponsored Carl Ulrich and his three daughters.
(31) Articles on the death of Heinrich Wiese as a result of suicide were published in The Age under
the title, “An orchardist hangs himself” on 23 June 1903, p. 6, The Argus under the title “Determined
suicide” on 23 June 1903, p. 9 and the Evelyn Observer and Bourke East Record under the title,
“Determined suicide” on 26 June 1903, p. 2.
(32) An article on the death of Johannes Wiese as a result of suicide was published in The Age under
the title, “Orchardist poisons himself” on 23 October 1920, p. 17.
(33) An article on the inquest into the death of Dorothea Zander, due to being struck by a bus in
Doncaster on 9 July 1928, was published in The Argus on 25 July 1928, p. 10.
(34) Matilda Henrietta Fehlberg arrived as a six-year old child on the Figaro in October 1870.
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APPENDIX C
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Anderson family
Second generation
Anderson, Anna Elvera and Stonehouse, Henry John
Edna Evena Stonehouse; born: 19 September 1911, North Hobart.
Thomas Fleetwood Stonehouse; born: 29 December 1912, New Town.
Margaret Florence Stonehouse; born: 24 March 1915, New Town.
Grace Caroline Stonehouse; born: 23 July 1917, Hobart.
Anderson, Gustav Adolph and Johnson, Sarah Emma Mabel
Arthur Edward Anderson; born: 19 March 1907, Launceston.
Beryl Irene Anderson; born: 13 September 1909, Inveresk.
Augustus George Anderson; born: 17 June 1912, Sandy Bay.
Reginald John Anderson; born: 8 August 1915, Sandy Bay.
Amy Joan Anderson; born: 29 November 1918, Sandy Bay.
Anderson, Elin Marie and Conrad, Ernest Walter Augustus
Raymond Ernest Conrad; born: 27 September 1905, New Norfolk.
Alan James Conrad; born: 17 March 1907, New Norfolk.
Albert Edward Conrad; born: 13 October 1908, New Norfolk.
William Neil Conrad; born: 26 May 1910, New Norfolk.
Eric Walter Conrad; born: 9 April 1912, New Norfolk.
Catherine Mary Conrad; born: 23 May 1914, New Norfolk.
Charles Henry Conrad; born: 11 January 1916, New Norfolk.
Isabel May Conrad; born: 7 April 1918, New Norfolk.
Anderson, Eledia Lucy and Gluschke, Charles William
Cedric Charles Gluschke; born: 8 June 1906, Glebe.
John Albert Gluschke; born: 23 April 1908, Hobart.
Robert Owen Gluschke; born: 15 September 1911, Hobart.
Anderson, Hildegard Johanna and Hansen, Hjalmar Achaton
Andrew Henrick Hansen; born: 16 January 1911, Hobart.
Burczak family
Burczak, Martin Franz and Burczak, Johanna Wilhelmina
Martha Frances May Burczak; born: 1904, Melbourne, Victoria.
Danker family
Second generation
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APPENDIX C
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LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Danker, Heinrich and Plummer, Amy
Beryl Myrtle Danker; born: 19 June 1908, Dover.
Henry Bruce Danker; born: 2 August 1910, Dover.
Johannis Karl Danker; born: 30 November 1912, West Hobart.
Lucy Maud Danker; born: 21 October 1913, Battery Point.
Frerk family
Frerk, Heinrich Friedrich and Dohrmeyer, Louise
Hans Henry August Frerk; born: 9 February 1888, Tasman.
Anne Elsie Mary Frerk; born: 8 April 1889, Tasman.
Meta Christina Frerk; born: 2 September 1892, Tasman.
Glau family
First generation
Glau, Claus Heinrich and Stroh, Anna Magdalona
Frieda Christine Glau; born: 22 January 1887, Hobart.
Agnes Marie Glau; born: 21 February 1891, Adventure Bay.
Second generation
Glau, Marie Christina and Davis, Frederick Archibald
Frederick Archibald Davis; born: 8 December 1892, Launceston.
Winifred Mary Davis; born: 8 December 1892, Launceston.
Prudence Christina Davis; born: 9 June 1895, Launceston.
Evelyn Elsie Davis; born: 20 September 1896, Launceston.
Henry Theodore Davis; born: 11 September 1899, Launceston.
Ralph Harold Davis; born: 27 December 1900, Launceston.
Vera Edith Davis; born: 22 January 1903, Launceston.
Leslie Davis; born: 14 March 1904, Launceston.
Arthur Stanley Davis; born: 3 April 1905, Launceston.
Ena Dulcie Davis; born: 25 August 1906, Launceston.
Reginald Ernest Davis; born: 25 April 1911, Launceston.
Glau, Emma Frederica and Chinnery, Frederick Leslie
Douglas Frederick Chinnery; born: 1906, Bungendore, New South Wales.
Winifred Adeline Chinnery; born: 23 August 1908, Hobart.
Marjorie Florence Chinnery; born: 1911, Goulburn, New South Wales.
Freda Chinnery; born: 1913; Queanbeyan, New South Wales.
Alice Chinnery; born: 1914; Bungendore, New South Wales.
Thomas Frederick Chinnery; born: 1916.
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Violet Chinnery; born: 1918.
Glau, Claudine Margaretha and Francis, William Edward
Doris Francis; adopted.
Hansson family
Hansson, Lars and Dunkel, Augusta
Augustus Andrew Hansson; born: 27 December 1893, Gordon.
Oscar Harold Hansson; born: 27 August 1895, Gordon.
Wilhelmina Christina Hansson; born: 8 July 1898, Gordon.
Dorcas Agnes Hansson; born: 17 January 1900, Adventure Bay.
Martin Dunkel Hansson; born: 19 February 1902, Adventure Bay.
George Robert Hansson; born: 19 September 1903, Adventure Bay.
Leonard Victor Hansson; born: 25 May 1909, Adventure Bay.
Augusta Winifred Hansson; born: 17 August 1911, Battery Point.
Herbert Wilford Hansson; born: 9 October 1913, Battery Point.
Haustein family
First generation
Haustein, Julius Alban and Rank, Caroline Sophia
Alexander Haustein; born: 25 September 1886, Hobart.
Second generation
Haustein, Anna Alwina and Cope, George Alfred
Georgina Anna May Cope; born: 4 January 1898, Hobart.
George Alfred Bertie Cope; born: 19 July 1899, Hobart.
Phyllis Dorothy Cope; born: 24 October 1900, Hobart.
Haustein, Agnes Anna and Milbourn, James
Charles Claude Haustein; born: 13 March 1894, Ulverstone.
Haustein, Agnes Anna and Hassett, James
James Horace Haustein (1); born: 21 June 1900, Hobart.
Cyril Thornton Hassett; born: 14 January 1902, Hobart.
Alfred Blenard Hassett; born: 6 October 1903, Hobart.
Maida Beatrice Hassett; born: 17 December 1909, Hobart.
Haustein, Alma May and name not recorded
Ethel Camellia Haustein; born: 8 September 1897, Ulverstone.
Haustein, Alma May and Smith, Edward Anthony
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Rita Helen Smith; born: 13 July 1910, Abbotsham.
Freda Kathleen Smith; born: 18 February 1917, Ulverstone.
Nellie Fay Smith; born: 20 January 1919, Battery Point.
Haustein, Alfred Adolphus and Medwin, Kathleen Mary
Kathleen Anne Haustein; born: 14 January 1911, Burnie.
Haustein, Alfred Adolphus and Harvey, Vera Josephine
Hedley Guildford Haustein; born: 16 June 1918, Guildford, Western Australia.
Bonnie Vivienne Haustein; born: 11 December 1919, King Island.
Irene Josephine Haustein; born: 6 March 1921, Hobart.
Shirley Vera Haustein.
Hilton Lionel Alfred Haustein.
Brenda Valmai Houstein.
Haustein, Camilla and Hastie, George
Name not recorded (2); born: December 1900.
Haustein, Camilla and Applebee, Hubert Thomas Claude
William Alfred Hubert Applebee; born: 22 January 1908, Hobart.
Eunice Nellie Barbara Applebee; born: 14 January 1910, Hobart.
Raymond Alexander Applebee; born: 2 November 1916, Hobart.
Haustein, Emma and Bakes, Llewellyn Thomas
Jean Joyce Bakes; born: 5 May 1910, Ulverstone.
Celia Coral Bakes; born: 8 August 1911, Ulverstone.
Edna May Bakes; born: 4 July 1915, Hobart.
Jestrimski family
First generation
Jestrimski, Johann Jacob and von Kluck, Amelia Rosalia
Clara Ellen Jestrimski; born: 29 December 1885, Portland.
Henry Ernest Jestrimski; born: 9 February 1889, Portland.
Second generation
Jestrimski, Rudolph Emil and Nicklason, Matilda Amanda
Dora Caroline Jestrimski; born: 12 November 1897, Pyengana.
Otto Herbert Jestrimski; born: 13 March 1899, Pyengana.
Ralph Bernard Jestrimski; born: 16 August 1900, Pyengana.
Amelia Pearl Jestrimski; born: 2 April 1902, Gould’s Country.
Henry Arnold Jestrimski; born: 25 May 1904, Pyengana.
Ada Martha Jestrimski; born: 6 October 1905, Pyengana.
Cecil Jestrimski; born: 7 April 1907, Pyengana.
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Myra Jestrimski; born: 8 September 1909, Lottah.
Ivan Charles Jestrimski; born: 13 March 1912, Lottah.
Clarice Bertha Jestrimski; born: 1 June 1914, Lottah.
Thelma Viola Jestrimski; born: 15 March 1916, Lottah.
Geoffrey Norman Jestrimski; born: 25 May 1918, Lottah.
Rodney Mervyn Jestrimski; born: 4 May 1920, Lottah.
Jestrimski, Martha and Terry, William James
Elsie Cecelia Terry; born: 7 March 1897, Portland.
Henry Ernest Terry; born: 31 August 1898, Portland.
William James Terry; born: 5 November 1900, Lottah.
Jestrimski, Hugo and Terry, Daisy Eliza
Donald Charles Jestrimski; born: 21 May 1911, Pyengana.
Dulcie Eileen Jestrimski; born: 7 February 1913, Pyengana.
Dorothy Evellyne Jestrimski; born: 10 September 1914, Pyengana.
Effie Jestrimski; born: 28 June 1916, St Helens.
Jestrimski, Alfred Herman and Beechey, Janette
Ronald Wilfred Jestrimski; born: 25 September 1908, Pyengana.
Johnsen family
Johnsen, Hans Peter and Martin, Mary Anne
John Peter Johnsen; born: 1891, Taradale, Victoria.
Violet May Johnsen; born: 1894, Bendigo, Victoria.
Ruby Myrtle Johnsen; born: 1896, Bendigo, Victoria.
Kaden family
Second generation
Kaden, Olga and Dorloff, Henry
Martha Thusnelda Dorloff; born: 9 April 1893, Hobart.
Walter Godfrey Dorloff; born: 12 September 1895, Zeehan.
Olga Esther Dorloff; born: 27 June 1897, Zeehan.
Frank Henry Dorloff; born: 27 October 1898, Zeehan.
Matilda May Dorloff; born: 3 May 1903, Hobart.
Ruby Beatrice Dorloff; born: 12 May 1905, Adventure Bay.
Annie Helena Dorloff; born: 30 September 1907, Hobart.
Tasman Henry Dorloff; born: 11 December 1909, Battery Point.
Ida Phyllis Mary Dorloff; born: 28 May 1913, Battery Point.
Lucy Meta Dorloff; born: 5 March 1915, Adventure Bay.
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Frieda Edith Dorloff; born: 6 January 1918, Hobart.
Kaden, Anna and Miller, Robert
Oscar Robert Miller; born: 23 October 1897, Hobart.
Mary Eleanor Miller; born: 4 June 1904, Hobart.
Olga Marie Miller; born: 10 February 1906, Hobart.
Esther Johanna Miller; born: 27 May 1907, Hobart.
Kaden, Hermann and Kaden, Clara Anne
Alice Thelma Kaden; born: 29 March 1905, Battery Point.
Albert Herman Leonard Kaden; born: 24 November 1906, Hobart.
Anna Marie Kaden; born: 12 August 1908, Hobart.
Maurice Ernest Kaden; born: 1 February 1910, Adventure Bay.
Dennis Lawrence Kaden; born: 21 December 1912, Battery Point.
Phyllis Eugene Kaden; born: 23 October 1915, Battery Point.
Kaden, Frieda and Murray, Edward David
Ivy Emily Eugena Murray; born: 18 March 1905, Battery Point.
Olive Eveline Murray; born: 25 March 1906, Hobart.
Kohl family
Kohl, Franz Heinrich and Burns, Elizabeth
Frank Kohl; born: 1 February 1898, Gordon.
Walter James Kohl; born: 19 May 1899, Portland.
George William Kohl; born: 16 March 1901, Pyengana.
Harold Tasman Kohl; born: 15 July 1902, Pyengana.
Queenie Victoria Kohl; born: 1903, Pyengana.
Amy Louisa Kohl; born: 16 April 1909, Pyengana.
Eric Maurice Kohl; born: 12 August 1911, Pyengana.
Maurice Joseph Kohl; born: 1 April 1914, Pyengana.
Kohlhagen family
Kohlhagen, Friedrich Carl and Schwan, Victoria
Ada Flora Victoria Kohlhagen; born: 2 February 1890, Hobart.
Female, name not recorded; born: 10 September 1891, Hobart.
Linda Elsie May Kohlhagen; born: 18 June 1894, Hobart.
Kruse family
Second generation
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Kruse, Wilhelm Heinrich Johann and Lomas, Ethel
Mona Kruse; born: 10 September 1900, Port Cygnet.
Doris Kruse; born: 15 January 1902, Southbridge.
Leo Lomas Kruse; born: 20 July 1903, Franklin.
Cora Kruse; born: 1 October 1905, Franklin.
Ethel Kruse, born: 15 May 1907, Lymington.
Joseph William Kruse, born: 20 February 1909, Lymington.
John Henry Kruse; born: 28 November 1910, Southbridge.
Mary Kruse; born: 27 October 1912, Southbridge.
Harold Lembeck Kruse; born: 29 June 1916, Huonville.
Jean Kruse.
William Kruse; born: 15 March 1918, Huonville.
George Eric Kruse; born: 15 March 1918, Huonville.
Mansson family
First generation
Mansson, Sven and Kahlar, Christina Dora
Mary Louisa Mansson; born: 7 April 1887, Portland.
Martha Augusta Mansson; born: 10 October 1889, Portland.
Carl Oscar Mansson; born: 17 May 1893, Portland.
Second generation
Mansson Anna Gertrude Asserina and Watt, George
Oscar George Watt; born: 31 December 1900, Gladstone.
Florence Maud Watt; born: 5 May 1903, Derby.
Laura Christina Watt; born: 15 March 1905, Gladstone.
Alice Wilhelmina Watt; born: 22 June 1907, Gladstone.
George Clarence Watt; born: 28 June 1909, Gladstone.
Ivy May Watt; born: 4 May 1913, Gladstone.
Mansson, Emma Matilda and Crawford, Donald
Florence Ella Crawford; born: 27 February 1911, Launceston.
Alice Christina Crawford; born: 20 March 1913, Launceston.
Donald Henry George Crawford; born: 23 January 1916, Launceston.
Norman Leslie Crawford; born: 5 May 1918, Launceston.
Allan Crawford; born: 13 November 1927, Launceston.
Nicklason family
First generation
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Nicklason, Ola and Nicklason, Karna
Francis Augustus Nicklason; born: 1886, St Marys.
Second generation
Nicklason, Carl Alfred and Oldham, Amelia Katherine
Oswald Gilbert Nicklason; born: 15 December 1910, Pyengana.
Beatrice Daphne Nicklason; born: 11 March 1912, Pyengana.
Wilfred Clyde Nicklason; born: 21 May 1913, Pyengana.
Laurence Keith Nicklason: born: 8 January 1915, Pyengana.
Margaret Gladys Nicklason; born: 5 August 1916, Pyengana.
Kathleen Eva Nicklason; born: 30 September 1917, Pyengana.
Hubert Maxwell Nicklason; born: 22 July 1919, Pyengana.
Lewis Charles Nicklason; born: 1920, Pyengana.
Rita Doris Nicklason; born: 1922, Pyengana.
Neilson family
Neilson, Niels Peter and Batchelor, Isabelle Mary Jane
Grace Elsie Annie Neilson; born: 5 February 1893, Sorell.
Hans Peter George Neilson; born: 2 July 1894, Tasman.
Doris Wilhelmina Neilson; born: 11 June 1896, Port Cygnet.
Sydney Neilson; born: 26 March 1898, Tasman.
Isobel Neilson; born: 20 November 1900, Port Cygnet.
Annie Irene Neilson; born: 18 September 1901, Eaglehawk Neck.
Ella Josephine Neilson; born: 8 February 1903, Eaglehawk Neck.
Ohlson family
Ohlson, Olaf and Petersen, Hilda
Alfred Ohlson; born: 14 September 1888, Spring Bay.
Albert Henry Ohlson; born: 7 October 1889, Hobart.
Hannah Maria Helena Ohlson; born: 27 October 1890, New Norfolk.
Hilda Matilda Ohlson; born: 12 November 1892, New Norfolk.
Olaf Ernest Ohlson; born: 3 January 1895, New Norfolk.
Thomas Gustof Ohlson; born: 20 October 1896, New Norfolk.
Peterson family
First generation
Peterson, Carl and Olofsson, Emma Christina
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Eda Mary Peterson; born: 1887, Portland.
Vincent Alfred Peterson; born: 17 November 1888, Portland.
Peter William Peterson; born: 7 October 1890, Portland.
Edward George Peterson; born: 4 May 1893, Portland.
Annie Aline Peterson; born: 29 March 1895, Portland.
Hilda Elizabeth Peterson; born: 9 March 1897, Portland.
John Frederick Peterson; born: 4 September 1899, Portland.
Essie May Peterson; born: 29 May 1901, Portland.
David Allen Peterson; born: 23 May 1904, Portland.
Second generation
Peterson, Carl Herman and Reading, Urania
Keith Peterson; born: 10 June 1928, New Town.
John Edward Peterson; born: 5 July 1932, New Town.
Josephine Mary Peterson; born: 5 July 1932, New Town.
Peterson, Ernest Emile and Hansson, Mary Magdelena
Alan Harold Peterson; born: 17 August 1916, St Helens.
Gwendoline May Peterson; born: 18 June 1917, Hobart.
Percy Wilfred Peterson; born: 30 January 1918, Hobart.
Rieper family
Rieper, Claude Detlev and Stubbings, Catherine Thyrna
Rhoda Katie Rieper; born: 28 June 1893, Strahan.
Herbert Detlev Rieper; born: 22 October 1894, Strahan.
Roydon Roland Rieper; born: 29 August 1895, Strahan.
Ruthsatz family
First generation
Ruthsatz, Wilhelm and Simman, Pauline
Florence Emma Ruthsatz; born: 1886.
Wilhelm Ruthsatz; born: 1888, Seymour, Victoria.
Ruthsatz, Wilhelm and Hart, Emily Jane
Charles Edward Hart Ruthsatz; born: 1889, Drouin, Victoria.
Ethel Jane Hart Ruthsatz; born: 1893.
Bertha Ruthsatz; born: 1894, Drouin, Victoria.
Ernest August William Ruthsatz; born: 1896, Drouin, Victoria.
Solomon David Ruthsatz; born: 1899, Drouin, Victoria.
Amelia Alice Jane Ruthsatz; born: 1902, Drouin, Victoria.
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Johann August Carl Ruthsatz; born: 1905, Drouin, Victoria.
Second generation
Ruthsatz, Gustav and Day, Lily Ada
Hazel May Ruthsatz; born: 1923, Echuca, Victoria.
Selzer family
Selzer, Paul and Meyer, Fanny Adelgunde Caroline
Francis Joseph Arthur Selzer; born: 7 July 1887, New Norfolk.
Gertrude Christal Selzer; born: 18 August 1888, Spring Bay.
Robert Paul Selzer; born: 1889, Richmond, Victoria.
Carl Ferdinand Selzer; born: 1891, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Elsie Annie Dorothy Selzer; born: 1894, Hawthorn, Victoria.
William Rudolph Selzer; born: 1896, Toora, Victoria.
Bertha Adelgunde Selzer; born: 1899, Toora, Victoria.
May Rosina Fanny Selzer; born: 1900, Toora, Victoria.
John Sydney Selzer; born: 1902, Toora, Victoria.
Antoinette Gerte Selzer; born: 1903, Toora, Victoria.
Henry Adolph Selzer; born: 1905, Toora, Victoria.
Stolzenberg family
Second generation
Stolzenberg, Dora and Richter, Charles Rudolph
Oscar Henry Richter; born: 24 March 1898, Zeehan.
Stolzenberg, Johanna Frederica Agnes and Rumbold, William Henry
William Henry Rumbold; born: 22 October 1896, Hobart.
Dorothy Mabel Rumbold; born: 5 August 1899, Zeehan.
Stanley Alfred Rumbold; born: 9 August 1901, Hobart.
Stolzenberg, Johanna Frederica Agnes and Pace, Shadrick John
Harold Edgar Pace; born: 14 January 1908, Hobart.
Stolzenberg, Karl and Hardy, Agnes
Edna Margaret Stolzenberg; born: 29 February 1904, Hobart.
Ivan Karl Stolzenberg; born: 28 December 1909, Hobart.
Suhr family
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Second generation
Suhr, Johann Heinrich Emil and Snape, Maria Hagar
Roy John Suhr; born: 24 August 1915, Forest Lodge, New South Wales.
Eric John Suhr; born: 23 April 1917, Hobart.
Suhr, Joachim Heinrich Willy and Wilson, Barbara
Gordon John Willy Suhr; born: 17 September 1909, Hobart.
Douglas James Suhr; born: 8 May 1911, Hobart.
Pearl Barbara Suhr; born: 16 March 1922, Hobart.
Suhr, Carl Johann Heinrich and Snape, Florence May
Dorothy Suhr; born: 24 January 1913, Croydon, New South Wales.
Stanley Suhr; born: 24 January 1913, Croydon, New South Wales.
Claude William Suhr; born: 6 April 1915, Croydon, New South Wales.
May Suhr.
Ivy Florence Suhr.
Wiese family
First generation
Wiese, Georg Herman Augustus and Wiese, Margaretha Magdalona Elizabeth
Friedrich Carl Wiese; born: 1891, Doncaster, Victoria.
Wiese, Georg Herman Augustus and Campbell, Annabelle
Hermine Wiese; born: 1910, Kew, Victoria.
Second generation
Wiese, Johannes Nicholaus Christian and Sweeney, Florence Catherine
John Nicholas George Wiese; born: 1905, Kew, Victoria.
Dorothea Kathleen Wiese; born: 1910, Balwyn, Victoria.
Wiese, Johannes Nicholaus Christian and Smith, Phoebe Matilda
Vera Ellen Wiese; born: 1920, Balwyn, Victoria.
Wiese, Dorothea Magdalona and Zander, Carl Heinrich
Albert Charles Andrew Zander; born: 1910, Doncaster, Victoria.
Frederick Carl Zander; born: 1912, Box Hill, Victoria.
Wiese, Georg Heinrich and Otto, Linda Elsie
Lawrence George Wiese; born: 1909, Doncaster, Victoria.
Marjorie Elsie May Wiese; born: 1912, Doncaster, Victoria.
Maurice Archibald Wiese; born: 1916, Doncaster, Victoria.
Shirley Wiese.
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APPENDIX C
(cont.)
LIST OF CHILDREN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN
TASMANIA ON THE PROCIDA BORN IN 1885 OR AFTER
Zanotti family
Zanotti, Johann Carl and Fehlberg, Matilda Henrietta
Emily Ida Zanotti; born: 11 July 1887, Hobart.
Albert Karl Zanotti; born: 9 December 1888, Hobart.
Walde George Zanotti; born: 12 April 1891, Hobart.
Edward Bernard Zanotti; born: 8 October 1892, Hobart.
Olive Flora Zanotti; born: 11 September 1895, Hobart.
Lottie Matilda Zanotti; born: 1 November 1896, Hobart.
Benjamin Norman Zanotti; born: 14 January 1900, Bismark.
Clarice Ella Zanotti; born: 3 September 1902, Bismark.
Zollinger family
First generation
Zollinger, Jacob Rudolf and Wheeler, Emily Anne
Catherine Agnes Josine Zollinger; born: 1891, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Lillias Nellie May Zollinger; born: 1893, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Second generation
Zollinger, Anna Elizabeth and Penny, George Thomas
Norman George Penny; born: 1912, Richmond, Victoria.
Stanley Russell Penny; born: 1916, Prahran, Victoria.
Frank Thomas Penny; born: 1914, Prahran, Victoria.
Nancy Josine Penny; born: 1919, Balwyn, Victoria.
Zollinger, Emilie and Thomas, John Richard
Gwendoline Thomas; born: 1906, Loch, Victoria.
Millicent Anne Jean Thomas; born: 1907, Foster, Victoria.
William John Hugh Thomas; born: 1907, Foster, Victoria.
Hugh Rudolf Thomas; born: 1908, Foster, Victoria.
David Griffith Thomas; born: 1910, Foster, Victoria.
John Francis Thomas; born: 1914, Prahran, Victoria.
NOTES
(1) James Horace Haustein was registered with his mother’s name: Agnes Houstein nee Hassett;
father’s name: James Houstein.
(2) Refer to Appendix B, note 9. It is likely that this individual was named Gustav Adolf Haustein.
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