Sashar, I had not checked this site nor FamilyHistorySA passenger lists.
It The 1841 Skjold passenger list can be found here. The BAR family can be found as BAUER.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/1841Skiold.htm
Bound for South Australia, The Ships List – German Emigration to SA, and FamilyHistorySA all use BISA as a cross reference, and BISA is the source of many, many errors.
FamilyHistorySA and The Ships List are more than willing to correct wrong details when shown the correct records.
I’m sticking my neck out here because I dispute the individual who propagated the error of an 1841 arrival. I have yet to see evidence this family were in SA between 1841-1855. The fact is there was NO list of passengers for the Skjold named in the newspaper in 1841, but F BÄR (and family) were reported on their arrival in 1855.
To translate BÄR into BAUER is grossly inaccurate – maybe just an assumption but it shows a lack of understanding german surnames.
Any surname with an umlaut is translated as follows:
Ä = AE, Ö = OE, Ü = UE.
Hence BÄR is actually BAER or perhaps BAEHR but . . . . I don’t know how the H came to be in the surname.
In Australia that E was often dropped completely from various surnames. I think german surnames were altogether too difficult to explain as they were not written as pronounced, not to mention the difficulty in recording BMDs of illiterate Germans.
Bound for South Australia has one of my families arriving in 1849 as husband, wife and 16 y.o. son. However, the family actually arrived in 1855 with eight children, and seven were born prior to 1849. I am descended from the youngest child born in Silesia in 1853. According to a family story they attempted to emigrate earlier but were prevented by the serious illness of a child. So I understand the family were in fact planning to emigrate in 1849 but had a change of plans at the last minute.
The Lutheran Archives have a database that names every person recorded in church registers, so the BAHR children should be in their database.
The maiden name for Mrs BAHR was recorded as MARSCH when their only child was born in SA– a variation of MERSCH as recorded when they applied to emigrate in 1840.
The Naturalisation records of three sons support their arrival in 1855 even though an aged FW could not remember exactly but then he was just a 4 y.o. when he arrived.
Heinrich/Henry [NAA3185727]
Christian [NAA 3178688]
Frederick William [NAA 39419]
Rhonda
