Hello. This is a challenge!
Lisette Christiane Henriette HEYER was born on 18 March 1846 in Zellerfeld, then in the Kingdom of Hanover. Her father was
Heinrich (“Henry”) Zacharius HEYER (1817-1889) and mother Lisette Christiane Henriette HEYER (nee RANK) (1817-1846). Her mother died on 27 March 1846, when Lisette was nine days old. I know this from records from Germany obtained many years ago (thank you Pauline).
Lisette and her father arrived in Port Adelaide on 2 April 1849 aboard the barque 'Auguste and Meline' (having departed Bremen on 17 December 1848). [
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/auguste&meline1849.shtml]
Henry HEYER purchased property in Upper Sturt SA in the early 1850s, after having reputedly been to the Victorian goldfields. Henry HEYER married Louisa Carolina Wilhelmina (“Johanne”) FULLGRABE (1837-1907) on 26 December 1854 in Upper Sturt.
Lisette is mentioned in newspaper reports of a court case on 21 April 1858 involving a dispute between Henry and his father-in-law, reported in the
South Australian Register (22 April 1858, p2,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49775279) and
Adelaide Observer (24 April 1858, p4,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/158122407). She was twelve.
After that, the trail goes cold. Henry had fourteen children with Johanne, which I know all about (being descended from one, Charles Henry). But no sign of Lisette. Family lore has it that she left the house one day and never came back.
Have tried various searches including a fuzzy search at Genealogy SA, "Lisette" first name search in the Diggers SA databases and on Trove. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for your time.
