Hello Listers, You may find the following information relevant to your discussion - http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/downloads/SearchProcedures/sp7_land_orders.pdf Estelle > From: agrulke7@bigpond.com > To: aus-qld-se-germans@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:59:43 +1000 > Subject: Re: [SEQ-Germans] Emigration -AUS-QLD-SE-GERMANS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 109 > > Interesting. > I was unaware of girls getting land orders and of children also getting > them. > I wonder where the order was for. I thought for some reason that the Drewes > went to St Helens Station on work contract for five years before returning > to Middle Ridge. > John seems to suggest that maybe they had a land order on arrival. > Albert Grulke > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-qld-se-germans-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:aus-qld-se-germans-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Heinemann > Sent: Tuesday, 22 June 2010 3:39 PM > To: aus-qld-se-germans@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SEQ-Germans] Emigration -AUS-QLD-SE-GERMANS Digest, Vol 5, > Issue 109 > > In his posting (Message 4) Albert mentions migrants being granted blocks of > land. I have noticed that the Qld State Archives have recently put the > following indeces on line. > > Index to Register of Lands Sold 1849-1861 NEW! > Index to Register of Lands 1861-1868 NEW! > Index to Land Orders 1861-1874 NEW! > > If you find someone of interest copies of register pages can be ordered. > However, the preamble that has been included by the archives indicates that > grants were at times made to the immigration agents or migrant's employers > (presumably for subsequent transfer to the migrant once they had worked the > term of their contract). Hence there are many entries for Heussler, Heussler > and Co and Heussler and Francksen in the Index to Land Orders 1861-1874 for > example. I have managed to find some entries for families of interest to me > - eg the Drews family as shown below. Albert indicates that every son aged > 16 or over could get a land grant. In the case of the Drews, daughter > Ernestine and sons Ferdinand (aged 8) and Franz (aged 6) were included. > > SURNAME/Company Name GIVEN NAMES Page Land Order No. Year Item > ID Prev Sys M/film No. > DREWS August 1120 1863 > 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Carl 1121 > 1863 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Ernestine 1121 > 1863 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Ferdinand 1122 > 1863 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Franz 1122 > 1863 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Frederich 1119 > 1863 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Wilhelm 1120 1863 > 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > DREWS Wilhelmine 1119 > 1863 18764 IMM/247 Z1570 > > In the case of the Vohland family all four children were under 10 but only > the youngest who was 3 is not listed in the index. The registers do not seem > to include ages of individuals, so anyone capable of signing their name on > appropriate documents may have been able to obtain a block of land. Any > payment that was needed was obviously made by the father. > > The following extract from an article about the founding of the Bethania > settlement in Qld (http://home.wanadoo.nl/wouter.busnach/bethan.htm > )describes the reasons for migration from Brandenburg in the 1860's > > "The community at Bethania was founded by twenty-two families namely Tesch, > Berndt (2x), Schneider, Ebert, Holzheimer, Lindow, Kuter, Rehfeldt, Sichter, > Lindow, Kuter, Rehfeldt, Sichter, Hein, Fels, Schafer, Lotz, Bobbermein, > Kasper, Losbegeiger, Fien, Kroning, Kleinschmidt, Goll and Sommer. > > These folk were motivated principally by economic reasons. During the second > quarter of the nineteenth century, Brandenburg in particular was full of > social, political and religious tensions brought about by a population > explosion, the beginnings of industrialization, the emergence of new > political ideas and the union of the Protestant churches into the State > Church of Prussia. > > The effects of over-population were disastrous. Second sons of farmers found > only poorly paid occupations or no work at all, and so the social descent > began. Emigration was the only alternative to shifting to the larger towns. > > Christian Berndt (later Pastor Berndt) was one of those who had contemplated > emigration, although the destination of his choice had been America. A > number of families from his village had already to that country. He was wont > to say, "Our father had a large farm. We can only afford to buy a small farm > and our children be forced to become simple labourers. There is much land to > be had in America and there our children can become property owners. > > "However at about that time the Queensland Government, through its agents, > made it known in Germany that if folks emigrated to the colony, they would > be given a free passage and then each family would receive a piece of land. > The prospect of having their own soil under the plough was something that > energetic men and their wives could not resist. > > Of the original twenty-two founding families, seventeen were from the > Angermunde district of the Uckermark in Brandenburg and belonged to the > Preussische Freikirche (Prussian Freechurch). They were commonly called "Old > Lutherans" because of their insistence on the old form of Lutheran worship. > > The merger by Royal Proclamation of the Calvinist and Lutheran churches into > the State Church of Prussia had caused a great deal of anguish among > conservative village and country dwellers. The "Old Lutherans" rejected this > Union outright and, as a result, were subjected to discrimination and > sometimes persecution for what was regarded as civil disobedience." > > John Heinemann > > Archives - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-QLD-SE-Germans.html > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. > Please don't do it. > > A List for the research for the descendants of the Germans who migrated to > South East Queensland, Australia. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-SE-GERMANS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Archives - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-QLD-SE-Germans.html > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. 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