Hello everyone, I am just re registering my family history interests again. I am researching John BENIER/BENNIER/BANNEAR born 1809 in Germany, died 1881 in South Australia. He married Anna Maria Dorothea SPECHT, b.1816 in Germany? d 1895 in South Australia. They left Kritzow in Mecklenburg - Schwerin near Wismar, Germany, sailed from Hamburg in April 1844 to Nelson, New Zealand, with a group of German emigrants who planned to settle there but the New Zealand Company's plans fell into disarray and the group left NZ in November 1844 arriving at Hobart, Tasmania in December 1844. They left there and arrived at Port Adelaide in January 1845. They left Germany with five young children. They set up on land a few miles south of Adelaide. I would be grateful for any information anyone may have on this family or the places in Germany mentioned above or the New Zealand Company. Best wishes, Lorell J Benier (nee Davey) also researching DAVEY in Cornwall, PEACOCK in Norfolk, England.