Listers, hello A question for you, apart from South East Queensland and the Baroosa, where else in Australia where there large contingents of German settlers, mid 1800's to 1900s regards Denise ###################################### Denise Marriott McMahon - ex Melbourne 21 years Brisbane Queensland - Searching - CONWAY - County Clare and N.E. Victoria MCNEIL - Isle of Skye Scotland and Victoria GREEN - Tasmania CRAWFORD, NE Victoria, USA, Ireland, Scotland HAEFFNER, NE Victoria,Leibenstadt Baden Germany KRAEMER, Leibenstadt Baden Germany HALL, Victoria, England MARRIOTT, Victoria, England PINNER, Tasmania, Victoria, England JENKS, Melbourne, Lismore NSW and NH USA, Victoria and NSW Australia FOSTER, Rutland Ma USA and Keene NH USA NOONAN - Ireland and Australia???? ###############################################

Hi All, Another area of mid C19 German settlement was in the Thomastown/Lalor area of northern Melbourne. It's worth a visit for an exercise in dramatic contrasts. In the middle of some classic 50/60s Melbourne cream brick suburban sprawl are a couple of the old homesteads and a tiny bluestone church, complete with a pine shaded graveyard with a number of old gravestones. Best! Lloyd

Hello Denise. There were a lot of Germans brought to Australia as bounty immigrants to work for the Macarthurs at their property at Camden. They were mainly vine-dressers and worked in the vineyards. Some of my Stein ancestors were among them, and they arrived in the mid 1880s. The book 'Camden' by Alan Atkinson gives some details of them, and is well worth a reading. Regards Shirley McLeod ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise McMahon <helendmc@powerup.com.au> To: <AUSTRALIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 12:03 PM Subject: Germans in Australia > Listers, hello > > A question for you, > apart from South East Queensland and the Baroosa, where else in Australia where there large contingents of German settlers, mid 1800's to 1900s > > regards Denise > > > ###################################### > Denise Marriott McMahon - ex Melbourne 21 years > Brisbane Queensland - > Searching - > CONWAY - County Clare and N.E. Victoria > MCNEIL - Isle of Skye Scotland and Victoria > GREEN - Tasmania > CRAWFORD, NE Victoria, USA, Ireland, Scotland > HAEFFNER, NE Victoria,Leibenstadt Baden Germany > KRAEMER, Leibenstadt Baden Germany > HALL, Victoria, England > MARRIOTT, Victoria, England > PINNER, Tasmania, Victoria, England > JENKS, Melbourne, Lismore NSW and NH USA, Victoria and NSW Australia > FOSTER, Rutland Ma USA and Keene NH USA > NOONAN - Ireland and Australia???? > ############################################### > > > ==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== > Subscribe to the AGI (Australian Genealogy Information) Bulletin > A Free Service for Australian Family Historians > http://www.southernx.com.au/ > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

Hello again Denise. Another thought. I was visiting friends a couple of years ago at a place named Ungarie which is near West Wyalong. There is a small Lutheran Church there and I attended a funeral at it. There were quite a lot of Germans in the cemetery there too. I do not know the history of why they were there, but I would say that there must have been a reasonable sized settlement to have built a church. I was born in Fairfield and lived at Smithfield. There were a number of German families in those towns too mostly in the vineyards. Some that come to mind were the Lehmanns, Konemans and Beckhauses as well as my Steins. Regards Shirley McLeod ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise McMahon <helendmc@powerup.com.au> To: <AUSTRALIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 12:03 PM Subject: Germans in Australia > Listers, hello > > A question for you, > apart from South East Queensland and the Baroosa, where else in Australia where there large contingents of German settlers, mid 1800's to 1900s > > regards Denise > > > ###################################### > Denise Marriott McMahon - ex Melbourne 21 years > Brisbane Queensland - > Searching - > CONWAY - County Clare and N.E. Victoria > MCNEIL - Isle of Skye Scotland and Victoria > GREEN - Tasmania > CRAWFORD, NE Victoria, USA, Ireland, Scotland > HAEFFNER, NE Victoria,Leibenstadt Baden Germany > KRAEMER, Leibenstadt Baden Germany > HALL, Victoria, England > MARRIOTT, Victoria, England > PINNER, Tasmania, Victoria, England > JENKS, Melbourne, Lismore NSW and NH USA, Victoria and NSW Australia > FOSTER, Rutland Ma USA and Keene NH USA > NOONAN - Ireland and Australia???? > ############################################### > > > ==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== > Subscribe to the AGI (Australian Genealogy Information) Bulletin > A Free Service for Australian Family Historians > http://www.southernx.com.au/ > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

Interested to see the responses to the question raised by Denise. I enjoy telling new acquaintances that my g gfather, John Peter Christopher Smith/Schmidt, was a German shepherd. At present my understanding is that he arrived with a shipment of Merinos on the Malvina Vidal for the AAC. He married Hannah Marthalena Elizabeth Stieger, the daughter of another German shepherd at Tamworth where it seems the shepherds were working for the Peel River Land and Mining Company headquartered at Goonoo Goonoo. Bryson Wilson in hot Pennant Hills Denise McMahon wrote: > Listers, hello > > A question for you, > apart from South East Queensland and the Baroosa, where else in Australia where there large contingents of German settlers, mid 1800's to 1900s > > regards Denise > > ###################################### > Denise Marriott McMahon - ex Melbourne 21 years > Brisbane Queensland - > Searching - > CONWAY - County Clare and N.E. Victoria > MCNEIL - Isle of Skye Scotland and Victoria > GREEN - Tasmania > CRAWFORD, NE Victoria, USA, Ireland, Scotland > HAEFFNER, NE Victoria,Leibenstadt Baden Germany > KRAEMER, Leibenstadt Baden Germany > HALL, Victoria, England > MARRIOTT, Victoria, England > PINNER, Tasmania, Victoria, England > JENKS, Melbourne, Lismore NSW and NH USA, Victoria and NSW Australia > FOSTER, Rutland Ma USA and Keene NH USA > NOONAN - Ireland and Australia???? > ############################################### > > ==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== > Subscribe to the AGI (Australian Genealogy Information) Bulletin > A Free Service for Australian Family Historians > http://www.southernx.com.au/ > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp