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Johann Heinrich ZOHN

1847-1902
Born: Frankenberg, Churhessen. Germany
Died: Brisbane, Qld. Australia

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  • Marriage: Lutheran Church, North Brisbane

  • Marriage: Qld BDM 1879/6340

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  • Story: The Story Of Johann Heinrich Zohn

  • Story: German Immigration To Qld.

    <p><font size="1">Extracts from&quot; W.Ross Johnston, &quot;<em>Brisbane the First 30 years</em>&quot;, 1988 DU28.3.J65 (Central Uni of Q.)</font></p><p><font size="1">*Rev.J.D.Lang - Of his own initiative he arranged for two Lutheran pastors from the Gossner Mission to go to Moreton Bay. These were Karl Wilhelm Edward Schmidt and Christoper Eipper. Ten assistants accompanied them, and with wives and children a party of 20 arrived in 1838. {20.iii} (Cotton[Commandant] assigned them 640 acres [290ha] at Zion Hill [Nundah], about ten kilometers from Brisbane.</font></p><p><font size="1">*&quot;Also, in 1838 free settlers arrived in the form of German missionaries, and they established their own village at Zion Hill,&nbsp;eleven kilometers&nbsp;north of Brisbane Town and three kilometres inland from Eagle Farm; on their first arrival they had briefly occupied the dilapidated buildings at Humpy Bong or Redcliffe. They set up a farming community and planned a little village - centering on a &#39;road near Kedron Brook, with houses of uniform size and pattern, in a line along the hill {33.i} - &quot;It consists of eleven cottages with enclosed yards, kitchens, storehouses, etc, these cottages are built in a line on the ridge of the hill from east to west. In front of the houses, small gardens are laid out down the hill towards a lagoon; at its base and in the rear of the yards, larger gardens run down on the o-pposite descent. The houses are either thatched or covered with bark&#39; the walls are built with slabs and plastered with clay both inside and outside, being whitewashed with a species of white clay found on the spot, and mixed with sand. The ceilings are formed of plaits of grass and clay wound about sticks laid across the tie-beams, and the floors of clabs smaoothed with the adze, each cottage having two or three rooms and one firsplace&quot; - 1841.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="1">* The first farming area to be mapped was that occupied since 1838 by the German missionaries at Nundah. Dixon completed their 640 acre survey in early January 1840. Through 1841 Warner undertook various other farm surveys in that area (Toombul parish). {47.ii}</font></p><p><font size="1">*&quot;Much more welcome to the community, especially in Brisbane, was the possibility of German immigration. In May 1851, Otto Neuhauss came out as an agent for the Hamburg firm of Godeffroy and Son, to investigate the possibility of introducing German labourers to Moreton Bay....He....undertook that is firm could land &#39;efficient German labourers&#39; at Brisbane for 12 pounds ea. the money payable in advance. In return they would work for two years. Furthermore, many German workers could pay one-half of their fare - but would engage for only one year {8.iv}....Indeed, the very success of the Germans at Nundah was causing resentment.{9.v}...The government also gave encouragement of refunding the passage money if any person brought in vine dressers from Germany. Edward Lord of Grayton began canvassing orders ofr German shephers, labourers or domestic servants, and he extended this to people skilled in the wine industry {10.vi}. If 100 immigrants were subscribed for, a ship would be sent directly from Hamburg to Moreton Bay. After a public meeting in Drayton [Darling Downs] in July 1851, 86 German immigrants were subscribed for.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="1">*October 1852 - &quot;Peter Godeffroy&quot; with 300 passengers for Sydney; December 1852, &quot;Caesar Godeffroy&quot; to Sydney. 75 immigrants did tranship to Brisbane aboard the &quot;Reiherstieg&quot; at the end of November. They were mainly wine-dressers and shepherds, bound for the downs (Darling Downs, SE Qld). {19.vii}; January 1853 - Wilhelm Kirchner arranged for 128 German immigrants who had arrived in Sydney to travel to Brisbane via two coastal steamers; this included 41 single German men, 36 married couples and 15 children....Patrick Leslie took four shepherds, and from the &quot;Albion&quot; David McConnel employed four families of vine-dressers. {20.viii}</font></p><p><font size="1">*&quot;The German community at Nundah kept fairly much to itself, still operating a school. About 40 students presented themselves for the annual examinations theres, and they put on display samples of writing, drawing, knitting and crochet-work {47.ix}&quot;</font></p><p><font size="1">Ref:</font></p><p><font size="1">33.i Neil Gunson &quot;<em>The Nundah Missionaries</em>&quot;, Journal of the RHSQ 5 1959-62 511;</font></p><p><font size="1">Christopher Eipper &quot;<em>State of the origin, condition and prospects, of the German mission to the Aborigines at Moreton Bay</em>&quot; Reading,Syd 1841 p.12</font></p><p><font size="1">47.ii Plans M1118 1-9 in COD86 f.40</font></p><p><font size="1">20.iii H.J. sparks &quot;<em>Brisbane&#39;s first free settlement 1838-1939</em>&quot; Smith &amp; Patterson, Bne 1938 pp.3-12</font></p><p><font size="1">J.D.Lang &quot;<em>Cooksland in Northeast Australia</em>&quot; Longman Brown Green &amp; Longmens, Lond. 1847 . p.464</font></p><p><font size="1">8.iv <em>Moreton Bay Courier</em>, 19.4.51 p.2; 3.5.51 p.2; 24.5.51 p.2; supplement 24.5.51 p.3.</font></p><p><font size="1">9.v <em>Moreton Bay Courier</em>, Letter to editor, 10.5.51 p.2</font></p><p><font size="1">10.vi <em>Moreton Bay Courier,</em> 21.5.41 p.3; suppp 28.7.51; 18.10.51 p.1; 28.10.51 p.3; 8.11.51 p.1.</font></p><p><font size="1">19.vii <em>Moreton Bary Courier</em>, 10.4.52 p.3; 17.4.52 p.2; 8.5.52 p.2; 9.10.52 p.3; 11.12.52 p.3.</font></p><p><font size="1">Coote, p.135 says that 52 Germans arrived, &quot;David Denholm&quot;, <em>The coming of the Germans to the Darling Downs 1852-1861</em>. BA thesis, Uni of Qld. 1967 pp.66-7. 82 appendix B5 &amp; B2</font></p><p><font size="1">20.viii <em>Moreton Bary Courier</em> ,22.1.53 p.3; 29.1.53 p.3.</font></p><p><font size="1">47.ix <em>Moreton Bay Courier</em>, 56.11.53 p.3</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

  • Story: Research

    <p><font size="1">* Churhessen, Kerhessen (i. Chur ii. Kur) - prefix for an electoral district, in this case for the election of dukes &amp; things; Frankenberg an de Eder (river); AG Amtsgericht (district court).</font></p><p><font size="1"><strong>REF:</strong> Staatsforst Frakenberg, rural area to the east of Frankenberg an de Eder, pssible birth place of Johann Heinrich. This area lies to north of Frankfurt in the electoral district of Hessen Nassau - civil registry (births, deaths &amp; marrianges) for this area commenced in 1803. <em>Check Mormons church records for baptisms, burials and marriages.</em></font></p><p><font size="1"><strong>SOURCES:</strong> &quot;Deutsches Ortsverzeichnis&quot; reprint, QFHS Library, 1997 - Central Euro Work Group</font></p><p><font size="1">No record of arrival in Aust. Sourced: QFHS Library, 1997</font></p>

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    jcpmzohn1 on May 04:
    Here are the states of modern Germany and the historical kingdoms, duchies and the like that they contain. (The city-states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen contain no such territories.) Some areas aren't part of modern Germany. Most of East Prussia (Ostpreussen) and Silesia (Schlesien) and part of Pomerania (Pommern) are now in Poland. Similarly Alsace (Elsass) and Lorraine (Lothringen) are in France, and in each case you must take your research to those countries. Baden- Württemberg Grand Duchy of Baden, Principality of Hohenzollern, Kingdom of Württemberg. Bavaria Kingdom of Bavaria (excluding Rheinpfalz), Duchy of Sachsen-Coburg. Brandenburg Western portion of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg. Hesse Free City of Frankfurt am Main, Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt (less the province of Rheinhessen), part of Landgraviate Hessen-Homburg, Electorate of Hessen-Kassel, Duchy of Nassau, District of Wetzlar (part of the former Prussian Rheinprovinz), Principality of Waldeck. Lower Saxony Duchy of Braunschweig, Kingdom/Prussian, Province of Hannover, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe. Mecklenburg- Vorpommern Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (less the principality of Ratzeburg), western portion of the Prussian province of Pomerania. North Rhine- Westphalia Prussian province of Westfalen, northern portion of Prussian Rheinprovinz, Principality of Lippe-Detmold. Rheinland-Pfalz Part of the Principality of Birkenfeld, Province of Rheinhessen, part of the Landgraviate of Hessen- Homburg, most of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz, part of the Prussian Rheinprovinz. Saarland Part of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz, part of the Prussian Rheinprovinz, part of the principality of Birkenfeld. Sachsen- Anhalt Former Duchy of Anhalt, Prussian province of Sachsen. Saxony Kingdom of Sachsen, part of the Prussian province of Silesia. Schleswig- Holstein Former Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, Free City of Lübeck, Principality of Ratzeburg. Thuringia Duchies and Principalities of Thüringen, part of Prussian province of Sachsen.


 
 
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