August and Wilhelmina Grossmann

[GG52]

I am new to RootsChat and trying to find out more information about August and Wilhelmina Grossmann who sailed from Hamburg on the Reichstag in April 1873.  They arrived in Queensland in
July 1873.  I would like to know about their lives in Australia.

If anyone can help it would be very appreciated.

[Neale1961]

A good place to start is to post all the information about the family that you already know.
Then clarify what information you are still looking for.
This way RootsChatters know where to start to help out.

[Neale1961]

In case you do not have information about the Reichstag voyage……..
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1323364

[TreeSpirit]

Yes it might have been useful to include their ages and the 3 children who had left Hamburg with them:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9G8-SV2Y?i=182

[ciderdrinker]

Hello
Lets start with some ages for the couple
August Grossman age 53 in 1873  and Wilhelmina 57
With them are Carl  23,Henrietta 25  and Bertha 17

He was buried Bundaberg General Cemetery 24 May 1892 age 74years .He wife is in the same grave Wilhelmina Caroline Grossman died 15 Sept 1907 age 84years.
Her father is given as Carl Kunkel .Mother Maithae.
He gives his parents as Daniel and Dorothea Sophie Fenrich (the death index suggest he was Wilhelm August Grossman

www.findagrave.com/memorial/124060300/august-grossmann

Their daughter Henrietta is also there 1847-8.8.1920

There seems to be a third daughter Amelia Augusta Albertina born 1845  dies 21.4.1925 Also buried at the Cemetery
www.findagrave.com/memorial/102750662/amelia-augusta_albertina-barke

She married a Carl Frederich August Barke 1847-June 1928.They were also on the Reichstag over to Australia.

1919 Electoral Rolls Budeburg Bay Electra St lab .
Children Helena Isabella,Theodore Emile,Arthur Hermann,Carl ,Emelia

Carl Julias Grossmann died 3.8.1937
/www.findagrave.com/memorial/124060310/carl-julius-groszmann

Looks like he was a tailor -1925 electoral register Crofton St Caprocorna Bundaberg

Bertha married 28.8.1876 a Micheal Duffy1848-4.2.1926 and moved to Sydney .She is buried Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium 5.4.1929
www.findagrave.com/memorial/145821304/bertha-duffy

9.11.1911 the couple and their family had gone to New York on the Luisitania but must have returned to Australia .He says he has independent means.

Not sure exactly what you are after.

Ciderdrinker

[ciderdrinker]

Hello Again
Just to add Wilhelm Ausgust's parents marriage

Daniel Grossman married 2.1.1808 Latzig, Krone, Deutschland (Germany) to Dorothea Sophie Gennrich
It was a luthern church.

Ciderdrinker

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

August GROSSMANN was Naturalised in Queensland in 1875.

August GROSSMANN appears on the Queensland State Electoral Rolls in 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883 as a Leaseholder at Barolin Scrub in the Electoral District of Bundberg/Mulgrave.

Gerry

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

I meant to add that the 1875 Naturalisation has GROSSMAN with one "N" and in the 1884 Queensland State Electoral Roll it has August GROSSMAN as a leaseholder at Barolin Scrub.  Only one "N"

Gerry

[Neale1961]

August Grossmann land selection files can be obtained at the Qld State Archives
https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM36666
https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM36682