HI Faye & List, I read this item with much interest as my kin, Kubler purchased land in partnership with David WILDERMUTH, around the old Brisbane Airport, also later on at Whiteside, Petrie which now lkies under the PIne Rivers Dam. They also had a shop on Sandgate Rd Nundah. Michael KUBLER is also one of the five foundaing signatories of the Whiteside Lutheran Church. Other names associated with the KUBLERS are SHULTZ, MELTON, BUNZLI, WOOD. This info has been collected by others and I hope to one day be able to verify these claims. I do have a copy of a map that has the Whiteside land marked on it. Any other leads on how I would obtain these documents would be appreciated, and who knows I might just get the time to do some decent research next time I hit Bris. Regards Debbie Lock Rockhampton. >From: "Faye Calvert" <fayesmobile@dingoblue.net.au> >To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: It Goes Back To Pioneering Days >Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:28:23 +1000 > >Hi List > >Another newspaper article but there is no date on this one. > >Robin Smith Visits... >It goes back to Pioneering Days... > >Nundah and parts of the surrounding suburbs back in the middle of last >century were commonly called German Town, for it was there that German >Lutheran Missionaries founded the first free settlement in Brisbane. > >They had come to Australia at the request of DR. J. D. LANG, and settled at >Zion's Hill to work towards the conversion of the aboriginals. > >It wasn't until 1885 when the railway was built through German Town to >Sandgate that the settlement was named Nundah, the native name for the >chain >of waterholes bordering it. > >One of the few original families still living in the district , and in one >of the original homes is the WILDERMUTH family in Nudgee Road, Hendra. > >102 Years old > >The house itself is 102 years old, and was originally set in 260 acres of >farm land and open pasture. > >The pine and hardwood used in the building of the house was hewn on the >property. > >On the original estate the first Lutheran church in Brisbane was built. > >MR. W. WILDERMUTH, the third generation of Nundah WILDERMUTHS still runs >dairy cattle and horses and grows small crops on the remaining 11 acres. > >And it won't be long before the 11 acres passes out of the hands of the >WILDERMUTH family and is resumed by the Brisbane City Council. > >Five acres of it will then become a flood levee. > >One of the local residents collecting the history of the Nundah district is >MR. DENNIS CLEARY. > >"It won't be long before most of the people who remember the early days are >dead." MR. CLEARY explained. > > >Regards >Faye >Queensland Australia > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com