Sunday 16 December 2012

Leopold HEILBRUNN 1885 - 1941

Tuesday, 06 November 2007

Leopold was born in  1885 in Osterode, near Neustadt and Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains, Germany, to cattle dealer Cappel Heilbrunn and his wife Bertha Amran. He married Margrete Karliner in Berlin in 1919 and was living in Oschersleben, Bode and worked as a cattle dealer and owned his own house and land when Werner was born in 1921. Leopold fought on the german side in WW1 and was sent an Iron Cross in the mail, but sent it back as he wanted to be presented with it. He was interned in 1938 by the Nazis for being Jewish, but because he fought for Germany in the 1914/1918 war he was released and came Australia on the Malaja with his wife, Grete and daughter Herta on 16th February 1939.
Leopold's visa for Australia was granted in Berlin on 9rd Dec 1938, departing from Berlin on 30 Dec 1938. The family arrived in Harwich, England on the 3rd of January 1939, Colombo, Ceylon 29th Jan 1939 and Freemantle WA on 7 Feb 1939. On arrival he worked on a farm at Bundanoon, in the Southern Highlands, then through the Jewish Welfare Society the family leased a dairy farm in Jilliby Road opposite the Jilliby School on the Central Coast of NSW. There are photos of their container of household goods that came out from Germany. Contents included a hand carved stag, an office chair and a black cupboard on four turned legs. Leopold died from stomach cancer in 1941 at the age of 55 years and was buried in the        Jewish cemetery, Rookwood, Sydney, Australia, grave 196, section 10.

 © Marie Heilbrunn 2007
James HOGG 1864 - 1938

Sunday, 01 April 2007

James Hogg was was born in Kilrea, Derry, Ireland in 1864. James and Etta HOGG (no relation) married 31 Mar 1892 at Moneydig Presbyterian Church in the Parish of Desertoghill when he was 28 and she was 25. James residence at that time was Drumhama and he was the son of Alexander HOGG 1830 - 1914 and Elizabeth STEVENS. Etta's place of residence at the time of their marriage was Tamlaght, Derry, now in Northern Ireland.Her name at birth was Hester HOGG, the daughter of Archibald HOGG 1833 - 1884, a farmer, and Martha Jane GAMBLE 1836 -1921.

 On Sunday 31st of March 1901on the night of the Irish Census the family was living in the Townland of Tamlaght, which is in the District of Kilrea, the Parish of Aghadowy and the Barony of Coleraine and the County of Londonderry. The house consisted of two rooms, had a thatch roof and three windows and the landholder was listed as Samuel Torrens. James occupation was given as 'dealer in groceries'. His age on last birthday was 31, Esther's 29, Sandy 8, Cissy 6, Lily 2 and Annie S was aged 4 months.

It is thought that James saw the position at the salmon hatchery in the Hakataramea Valley advertised in a Hunting/Fishing magazine and decided to emigrate with Etta and the oldest four children. James sister Mary Ann Hogg, born Kilrea 25 October 1865, and her husband Thomas Wilson, born Mullan were already living in the Haka Valley. They married on 3 April 1879 at the Moneydig Presbyterian Church in the parish of Deserstogill, near Kilrea. James and Etta's parents had also married in the same church. James parents Alexander Hogg, from Kilrea, and Elizabeth Stevens married 15 December 1853.

James also had another sister, Martha Jane, born in Kilrea on 25 May, 1871 and two brothers, Samuel, born Kilrea 11 October 1867, and Robert, born Kilrea on 26 August 1869. Kilrea, on the Antrim border, is a beautifully preserved example of a Plantation town, with long, straight roads and the 'Diamond' at its centre. The town sits high up the Bann Valley to the South East of Garvagh and enjoys a vantage point above the river.

The family lived in Kurow, North Otago for a short time, then moved to Hakataramea and lived near the hatchery, the house has now been moved and is opposite the Hakataramea Cemetery. James is supposed to have bought the small farm that George Patterson owned after they moved to Maerawhenua, near Duntroon in about 1910. James used to travel over the Lindis Pass to Central Otago and the lakes and rivers with his hatchlings. There is a telegram that James received when he retired as a Public Servant. James enjoyed the races and used to travel up to Christchurch to attend the NZ Cup meetings. He used to stay with the Woods family (Senior) and later with Sam and Cissy (Woods) when they had a dairy farm at Halswell. He always wore gentleman's clothes - suit, waistcoat, tie, hat and fob watch. James never remarried after Etta's death and continued to work at the Salmon Hatchery at the end of the Hakataramea gorge until he retired. James died on 22 August 1938 from Coronary Thrombosis at the age of 68 and is buried at the Hakataramea Cemetery, in the same grave as Esther.

Sources: 1901 Census of Ireland
© Marie Heilbrunn 2007
George PATTERSON 1855 - 1921


Saturday, 31 March 2007

My Great Grandfather George Patterson was born in Scotland in 1855. George Patterson was the second son of James Paterson and his wife Jane Small, who were married in Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland on 18 May 1851, James was then aged 40 and worked as a shepherd at Lin Hill farm, south of Dunning, and Jane Small was 30 years old. James had been born around 1811 in Kincardine, Clackmannanshire, South of Dunning and Jane was born around 1821, in Forteviot, just north of Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland

 For several centuries Dunning lay on a main route between Perth and Stirling and has been steeped in history since the earliest times. There is an iron-age fort on the Dun Knock and a 1st century AD Roman camp at Kincaldie. Saint Serf is said to have killed a dragon there. There is a monument just outside Dunning to Maggie Wall, burnt as a witch in 1657. A standing stone outside the village is said to mark the site of the Battle of Duncrub in 964AD. St Serf's church in the centre of the village was rebuilt in the 19th century and has two-light arched Anglo-Saxon windows. The steeple of St. Serf's was completed in the Norman style around 1200, and remains largely intact.

Linen became Scotland's biggest manufacture in the eighteenth century, and Dunning like many others had become a village of handloom weavers. Today, Dunning has a population of 1000, two churches, three pubs, several shops, a primary school, two parks, a golf course, tennis courts and a bowling green, and is still very much a living, working village.

On 3rd April 1871 at the time of the census, the family Paterson were living at LATE GREEN Cottage, which is situated about five miles south of Dunning, between Tonguey Faulds and Lin Hill. The house was listed as having two windows. James Senior, aged 60, was the head of the household and his occupation was listed as shepherd. George, then aged 15, was a farm servant and his older brother James, aged 18, was single and a shepherd.  Their mother, Jane, was aged 50, and their sister Maggie, aged 14, was listed as a scholar. At that time, Paterson was spelt with one 'T'.

Ten years later, on 4 April 1881, another census took place and George, now aged 25 was working as a Wire Fencer. He still lived with his parents and sister at Late Green. Maggie ( Margaret married Alexander Francis Whitelaw in 1884 and they had one son and four daughters) was now aged 23, unmarried and was working as a dairy maid. James, aged 28, had married in Dunning in 1874 to Jane Dewett. James Junior still worked as a shepherd and lived with his wife Jane, also aged 28, and three daughters at Mundie Farm, Dron, Perthshire, about 8 miles East of Dunning. They had three daughters, Helen was 5 years old and had been born at Markinch, Fife to the north of Perthshirde, Jane was 3 years old and Margaret was 5 months old. Jane and Margaret were both born in Dron.

Marie Heilbrunn, Joan Turner (great grand daughters) and Ann Patterson visited Scotland in September 2002, and were taken to the ruins of Lin Hill and Late Green Cottages by Margaret and Sandy Salmean (Forestry Dept). We found a door manel with  IF ◊ KA 1668, meaning the house was built by a couple with the initials IF and KA in 1668!

The Forestry Dept purchased the land in the 1960's and the ruins are now in the middle of a spruce forest, about five miles from the lovely town of Dunning. Ann can now understand why Peter wants to build a stone house in Omarama!

According family stories George lived in the Ochil Hills near the scene of a train disaster in Scotland where in December 1879 the Tay Railway Bridge over the Tay Estuary collapsed during gale force winds. Seventy six train passengers were thrown into the sea below and George, then aged 24, was reported as having seen the lights on that night. Serious faults in the construction of the bridge were revealed later, including the fact that the bridge's inspector was unqualified and without experience.

 George came to New Zealand sometime afterwards, possibly 1882 after his father died, possibly via Australia.  Aunty Liz said that George was supposed to land in Port Chalmers, but landed in Lyttleton because of a storm, but this has not yet been confirmed.

George married Mary Dineen, born in Kilworth, County Cork, Ireland, in Oamaru on 25 Sept 1890. At that time, George was working as a musterer around Omarama, North Otago. Mary was 23 years of age when she and her sister Bridget, 19 years, sailed from Gravesend on the 2nd of August 1883 on the 'Nelson' and arrived at Port Chalmers, near Dunedin, on the 20th October 1883. The fare was one guinea but Mary also worked on board as a general servant during the journey to New Zealand. The 'Nelson' was one of six clipper ships built in 1874 by Robert Duncan for Patrick Henderson. 

George and Mary had seven children, including May, the youngest, who died at four months old and was buried in Hakataramea Cemetery. All the children were born at home. A midwife would come and look after Mary when she was going to have the baby. When James and Ellen were born the families place of residence was listed as Sandhurst. When Mary Jane, Amelia, Elizabeth and William arrived, the family’s place of residence was listed as Hakataramea. They lived on a small farmlet, about two miles into the Haka Valley.
       Patterson Family 1920's

George and Mary were listed in the NZ 1893 Electoral Roll:

Patterson, George, 2577
Electorate: Waitaki
Residential Address: Omarama
Occupation: Shepherd
Patterson, Mary, 3662
Residential Address: Hakataramea
Occupation: Domestic Duties

Elizabeth recalled later that ' a relative named Whitelaw' would send parcels topped with heather each year from Scotland. Her mother milked a cow and the ground was too stony to grow anything but onions. It was so cold in the winter that the hens' eggs would crack if you didn't get them as soon as they were laid and milk from the cow was like a sheet ice - you couldn't make butter from it and it had to be warmed up even to drink.' School would close for a time during the winter because it got too cold and Mary would teach the children at home. George was away mustered for six months of the year and would only come home on weekends. Whenever the children saw him coming down Slip Road (opposite the Waitaki Dam) they would run to greet him and he would let them ride home with him on his horse. He was head shepherd at Waitangi Station and also worked at Te Aka Station and would be paid about eight shillings (80 cents) for a day's work. In 1910, the family moved from Hakataramea to Maerawhenua, near Duntroon, where they bought a dairy farm when George's bad health prevented him from earning a living as a musterer. He died on the 10 August 1921, aged 66 years and is buried at Hakataramea Cemetery, near Kurow, NZ.

Sources: 1871 and 1881 British Census, Elizabeth Sainsbury (nee Patterson) and the Dunning Parish Historical Society.
© Marie Heilbrunn 2007
John COWIE 1818 - 1885


Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Civil registration did not begin in Scotland until 1855 and no baptismal record for John has been found. On the night of the 1851 Scotland Census, John was aged 34, so his estimated birth year was 1817, born Midlothian. His occupation was agricultural labourer and relationship to the head was lodger. Address: Moncrieff’s 53 Wynd, Auchterarder, Perthshire. John’s wife, Isabell, a cap maker and son Robert COWIE aged 10, Scholar, plus James THOMPSON 35, James DUNCAN 30, Isabell DUNCAN 23 and James THOMPSON. The head of the household was James MONCRIRFF 70, a turner, and his wife Agnes, aged 55. John was not found on 1861 Census.        

   In 1871 John, aged 52, estimated birth year, 1819, born Edinburgh, was the head of the household at Ballintuim Strathmashie Cottage, Laggan, Invernessshire, occupation rabbit catcher. Their grandchildren, John aged 7 and Isabella aged 5, were also living with John and Isabella on the night of the 1871 Census. These were the children of Robert and Christina COWIE, who were in Perthshire, Robert at Murthly Castle and their mother, Christina, was at home in Methven with their older sister Ann and younger sister Christina.

On the night of 4 April 1881 at the time of the 1881 Census, John COWIE, a travelling merchant, and his wife Isabella, formerly ADIE. Both then aged 60, were staying at the home of John and Mary MacDONALD, a farmer of 10 acres, both born Laggan, Inverness,  Polnouchan at Kilmonivaig, Inverness, Scotland. Also living in the same dwelling were John MacDONALD, farmers son, aged 25, unmarried, Margaret MacDONALD, farmers daughter, aged 23, unmarried and Bridget WILLIAMSON, domestic servant, aged 14, born Insh, Inverness, Scotland.

John COWIE, a pedlar, died of acute bronchitis at 11.30am on the 2nd of February 1885 at Polnenrcham (Polnouchan), Glengarry, County of Inverness, Scotland. His wife Isabella, formerly EADIE (ADIE) was present and his (reputed) father was ---------COWIE deceased and mother Frances GRAHAM, housekeeper was also deceased. Death registration on Scotlands People

1885    COWIE           JOHN  M        68        GLENGARRY           /INVERNESS            099/01 0003
Margarete KARLINER 1895 - 1985

 
Tuesday, 06 November 2007

Margarete was born on the 9th February 1895 in Peiskretscham, Germany, now Pyskowice 5677, Upper Siesia, Poland to Isidor Karliner and Bianka, nee Pick. She was called Grete by the family, her parents had a clothing shop. Her marriage to Leopold Heilbrunn on the 26th of  November 1919 in Berlin was probably arranged. She was 24 years old and lived in Oschersleben were Werner was born in 1921 and Herta in 1923. In 1939, sponsored by the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the family followed their son Werner to Australia and settled on a dairy farm at Jilliby, NSW.
  When Leopold passed away in 1941 Grete and Herta moved to Sydney and started a catering business at William Street, Kings Cross but lived at Roslyn Gardens. In May 1946 she asked Werner to apply for her two nephews, Heinrich and Fritz Karliner, for admission to Australia, her given address at that time was 21 Tusculum Street, Potts Point. Grete married Kurt Parker (formerly Pikarski), a drycleaner in 1947. Grete was called Mutti by her children and she loved to be visited by her grandchildren.
  In 1956 Grete went to the US to visit her brother Ernst Karliner. She travelled on a British passport, arriving in Honolulu on April 27th and returning to Sydney on 15 May 1956, although she had a visa valid for four years.
 Grete spent her later years in the Montifiore Home at Hunters Hill and passed away in February 1985 at the age of 90 years and is buried in the Jewish section of the Rookwood Cemetery.
© Marie Heilbrunn 2007

Sunday 9 December 2012

Nathaniel BATES 1819 - 1887
 

Nathaniel was born 24 Nov 1819 at Sussex Street, Sydney, New South Wales to Thomas BATES, a Second Fleet convict, born C.1772 Harwich, England and his wife Ann, formerly GRIFFIN, the daughter of a soldier from Galway, Ireland. Nathaniel was Thomas and Ann's sixth child and was baptised at St.Philips, Sydney on 2 Jan 1820 and was raised on the shores of Cockle Bay, now Darling Harbour, where his father set up a boat building business after he retired from the army.

Around 1837, at the age of 18 years, Nathaniel sailed to the South Island of New Zealand with his brother in law, George GREEN, an Englishman, who married Maria, Nathaniel’s sister on 19 Apr 1830 at St Phillip's Sydney NSW. Nathaniel worked as a whaler at Otakou, Purakanui and Stewart Island between 1838 and 1844. In Harwood’s Brokenewy Journal at Purakanui in on 19 August 1838 he recorded that word was sent to BATES to ‘come over and bring all his tools’, so it appears that Nathaniel learnt a trade from his father.

George GREEN purchased four blocks, consisting of about 2,000 acres of land from the Maoris on Rakiura, now called Stewart Island and Centre Island. By 1840 there were 500 acres of wheat and potatoes under cultivation three weatherboard houses, pigs, poultry and other stock, under Nathaniel’s care.

In 1845 on a voyage from Jacob’s River to Stewart Island, about 60 miles across the Foveaux  Straight, Burr Osborne recorded that four men, including himself and Nat BATES were caught in a squall and were forced into George’s Bay for the night. The Maoris that lived in the bay were hospitable and invited them to join their feast, where they were toasting something around the fire. It tasted like toasted cheese, but turned out to be red headed grubs.  Fortunately, the men were able to proceed to Horse Shoe Bay on Stewart Island the next day, in Nathaniel’s open boat, which weighed about two tons.

The Otago Witness Issue 3, 8 March 1851, Page 3, contained a list of unclaimed letters, and included was ‘Mr Nathaniel Bates, Stewart's Island’. By this time Nathaniel was living fulltime at Jacob’s River. The family were included in the list of Europeans, Natives and half Castes residing at Aparima in 1852.

Nathaniel was listed as 30 years old, a sawyer from NSW and resident for 13 years. Buildings included one house and two outhouses. One and a half acres of potatoes were in crop and stock included five cattle and six pigs, but no horses. His wife, Harriet, aged 19, a half caste, and their first two children, Lydia and John, as well Hinepu’s three children also resided there. Both Nathaniel and Harriet could read and write.
In 1857 Nathaniel accompanied the surveyor and explorer John Turnbull THOMSON to Fiordland, through the Waiau Valley to the Takitimu Range, then east to the summit of Centre Hill from where Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri could be seen. That evening Thomson recorded that Nat Bates lit a camp fire, and the wood hens came out. Nat decided that a wood hen would make an addition to their salt pork and his attempt was sketched by Thompson and entitled Nat Bates trying to snare a weka for the pot at Centre Hill, 1857.

Nathaniel also accompanied William Saunders and explored the back country of Otago in 1859, looking for suitable areas for grazing sheep, and reached the south side of Lake Wakatipu at Mt Eyre.

In 1861 Nathaniel was registered to vote in the Jacobs River Hundreds New River District and in 1865-66 the Flax Point Riverton Electorate. From 1869 to 1875 he was registered in the Riverton Electorate. There are several parts of Riverton named after him and his sons, including Bates Street, George Street, Charles Street and Bates Point. By 1880 the family were living nearby at Raymonds Gap.

Nathaniel drowned in the Aparima River late on 13 July 1887. He was returning home from the Commercial Hotel late at night and fell from the Jacob's Creek Bridge. His body was found on the beach the next day by a 13 year old boy, James CAMPBELL. He was a good swimmer, and at the inquest it was revealed that he struck his head on one of the piles of the bridge.

The funeral was held on 15 July 1887 at Palmerston Street, and Nathaniel was buried in Riverton Cemetery, Anglican, Block A Plot 40. At the inquest held the next day at the Wallace County Hotel, Riverton, Harriett testified that she lived with the deceased, Nathaniel BATES, and Ann PAULEY at Raymonds Gap and they lived happily together, never quarrelling, or having disputes over money matters.

The Otago Witness newspaper carried this notice on 16 July 1887:
Nathaniel Bates, a very old settler in the Western District, was found drowned in the Aparima River on the 14th. Deceased was remarkable as being the father of 31 children. 

© Marie Heilbrunn 2009


Bibliography
Scott, L. Bayne, F  Nathaniel Bates of Riverton, his families and descendant, ,Christchurch, Tablet 1993Tod, F, Whaling in Southern Waters,  Dunedin,  n.p, 1982Richards, R, The Foveaux Whaling Yarns of Yankee Jack, Otago Heritage Books, Dunedin, 1995.Hall-Jones, J, John Turnbull Thomson, Southland Historical Committee, Reed, 1963Hall-Jones, J, Early Fiordland, Wellington, Reed, 1968

PapersPast http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

James BATES 1814 - 1841

Sunday, 07 October 2007

It seems that our James Bates did not marry Sarah Fitzpatrick 16th February 1835 at St Johns, Parramatta. Sarah married another James Bates, son of Thomas Bates, transported on the Hillsborugh in 1799. This James Bates died 25th December 1899 at Parramatta, aged 84, born 1815 ? s/b 1821, father Thomas Bates (HILLSBOROUGH 1799, sentenced to life at Middlesex 1798 for theft), mother Mary Catesby (Johnston), Occupation, Bushman (listed on his 1899 death certificate) married Sarah Fitzpatrick and had 9 children. Mary Catesby (Katesby) was sentenced to 7 years transportation in Lancaster, England in 1798 and arrived in Sydney on the Earl Cornwallis in 1801.
So it appears that our James Bates left no descendants.






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The Bates of Sussex Street

  Complied by Marie Heilbrunn in 2010

Saturday, 25 December 2010 
The Bates of Sussex Street
220 years in Sydney and Beyond

This first edition celebrates the 220 years of the Bates families since the arrival, in the Colony of NSW, of Thomas BATES aboard the Neptune in 1790.

It also includes contributions from descendants of
 Thomas & his wife Ann GRIFFIN.

The Bates of Sussex Street   ISBN: 978-0-646-53232-5   Subject: Family Studies
Contact: marieheilbrunn at gmail dot com
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