Hi List Another one with no date. If anyone is related to Gottfried Wagner or if anyone would like a copy of the picture of him with this article let me know and I'll send as an attachment to you. Hundredth Anniversary Of Arrival of First Free Settlers In State On March 30, 1838, there arrived in Moreton Bay by the New Sout Wales Government schooner Isabella, Captain More, an advance party of the German missionaries whom REV. JOHN DUNMORE LANG had selected for work among the aborigines. In view of the Lenten season, and bearing in mind the religious character of this attempt at preparing the original inhabitants for the impact of an alien order, the anniversary will be observed on April 23, when the Governor (SIR LESLIE WILSON) will unveil a memorial at Nundah, near the site of the original settlement at Zion's Hill. Apart from their efforts on behalf of the native, fruitless as they proved to be, the missionaries exerted a wholesome influence on the young colony. They came to represent an essential constituent, not a group apart. The mission comprised two ordained ministers, REV. C. EIPPER and REV. K. W. SCHNEIDER, and ten laymen, MESSRS. L. DOEGE, F. T. FRANZ, A. T. W. HARTENSTEIN, G. HAUSSMAN, P. NIQUET, A. OLBRECHT, A. RODE, M. SCHNEIDER, and J. L. ZILLMANN. With their wives and children the party numbered 20 persons. They had been trained for missionary labour by the REV. JOHANNES GOZNER, of Berlin, to whom they had represented that the academic qualifications required by the established missionary societies debarred them from entering their training institutes. PASTOR GOZNER thereupon placed them with artisans from whom they could learn various trades to fit them for working among aboriginies. Preparing them at night in his own parsonage by the conscientious study of the Bible, they may be able to earn their keep by day, while qualifying for a new calling. They had originally been introduced to him by a MR. LEHMAN on December 12, 1836, at 6 o'clock in the morning when they had expressed the humble request to be allowed to fill the gaps existing in missionary fields as Christian craftsmen and teachers. Pioneer Settlers. They were the first free, white settlers to win subsistence from the virgin soil of Queensland. A contemporary, JAMES DEMARR, himself the author of reminiscences covering the early period of Australian history, states that at a time when the little settlement at Brisbane Town was passing through a period of distress consequent upon the transformation of its original character, which was that of a penal colony, the missioners were supplying the inhabitants with butter, eggs, fowls and other general products of husbandry. "The general complaint was bad times," he writes in 1844, "all were doing badly, except some German missionaries, so everybody said." Evidence of the labours of the missioners as harbingers of civilisation is still extant. On the property of the WAGNER family at the foot of Zion's Hill a clump of pineapples thrives which was planted by their ancestor, GOTTFRIED WAGNER, as far back as the 'fifties. The descendants reverently protect the plot, as a link with the foundation of their own family which originated in Silesia. GOTTFRIED WAGNER. GOTTFRIED WAGNER was born on November 15, 1809, at Glockschuetz, a hamlet near Breslau, the capital of Silesia. His family no longer exists there though, personally, he is still being remembered by an old farmer, RUDOLPH RAFFKE, who thus constitutes a link with the early history of Queensland, though actually he may never have been here. Like several of his fellow missioners, the late MR. WAGNER, too, probably revisited his native land. Writing by this week's European air mail, REV. CARL RAIBIGER, the local minister at Huddlesfield, to which parish Glockschuetz now belongs, states that he had been instituting inquiries into the antecedents of one of Queensland's pioneers. There being no records available antedating the year 1791 when the congregation was formed, the parents' descent could not be ascertained. The baptismal register though, which contains the name of GOTTFRIED WAGNER, states that his father was a linen weaver and that his mother's name was HEMPE. Internal evidence seemed to point to Ramissau near Trbnitz, Silesia, as being the place where a Queensland family was cradled. MR. WAGNER was one of the few missioners who had not heeded DR. LANG'S advice when he admonished them to secure suitable partners before setting out to a country as yet uncivilised. However, he made amends by contracting a marriage after he had passed through DR. LANG'S theological seminary at Sydney, his wife being ANNA KATRINA WEISS, a native of Fulda, Germany. The next following year, in 1851, he returned to Nundah in time for the Christmas celebrations. Here too, it was that about 10 years later his second marriage took place, to MARGARET BROWN. Second marriages are almost a characteristic of these German missionaries, which might be construed as a deep-seated longing for the continuation of home life. Moreover, their progressive assimilation into a British community may be deduced from their choice of partners who were of that nationality. An Old-Time Family. Altogether, MR. WAGNER had 14 children. He truly became the founder of an Australian family which continued to flourish, though the parent stem, in the country of origin, may have become extinct. His descendants move in various walks of life, including the profession of medicine. The former site of the first WAGNER home has become a dairy which is conducted by MRS. ANDREW WAGNER, nee FRENCH, who like her late husband is Australian born, being descended from a Lincolnshire family. Preserving as she does her husband's patrimony, her care extends to two flagstones which served as steps leading into the original home. They now are placed in front of the new enlarged home. GOTTFRIED WAGNER in later life was a Presbyterian minister, and was stationed for some time in South Australia. He died on September 28, 1893, at Nundah, and was buried in the local cemetery. Regards Faye Queensland Australia