Beth, have you looked at Mundia [i used only surname, and born Germany]...................< http://www.mundia.com/au/Search/Results?givenName=&surname=SIXTUS&gender=Unknown&birthDay=&birthMonth=&birthYear=&birthPlace=germany&deathDay=&deathMonth=&deathYear=&deathPlace=&motherGivenName=&fatherGivenName=&spouseGivenName=&showMembersOnly=false > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Beth Wagstaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello - I have German relatives who arrived in Adelaide after a quick skip > into NZ in 1844 with the surname SIXTUS and LANGE. > > The 2 LANGE girls married into the DOHSE and OEHM families. > > The 5 SIXTUS boys lived around Concordia before returning to NZ sometime > between 1853 and 1856. > > Is there SKS who can answer this question for me please . . . ? Ta. I > have trawled through the online newspapers of the day looking for passenger > lists for vessels leaving Adelaide for NZ that may contain folk of the > SIXTUS name, without any success. The surname has sometimes been spelt > SEXTUS and even SIXTERS. Would anyone have come across SIXTUS ( or > variants ) in any departing shipping over the year period ( 1853 to 1856 ) > at all? > > If anyone has information on these surnames, I would love to hear from > you, as I really have nothing at all about the 12 years or so that these > folk spent in Australia. > > Thanks. > > Beth > Akld > AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ > > Websites of Interest on our Blog: > http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >