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Johann Wilhelm Schulz &

Johanne Julianna Klopstein2011

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Johann Wilhelm Schulz was born on the 17th February 1816, at Rackwitz Posen Prussia. (His parents are unknown) He married a Johanne Julianna Klopstein circa 1844-45, in Germany. He died on the 26th September 1882, at Wodonga, Victoria Australia.

Johanne Julianna Schulz nee Klopstein was born on the 7th May 1826 at Schwarz-Hauland Germany (parents unknown). She died on the 2nd March 1885, at Wodonga West, Victoria and was buried on the 4th March 1885 at the Wodonga cemetery.

Their known children are: Augusta Wilhelmina, Johann August Friederick, John Henry, Maria Elizabeth, Johann Paul, Maria Anna Bertha, Carl Ludovie Wilhelm, Amelia, Louise Emile Martha, Ernest Rudolf, Julius Edward, and Charles Alfred Schulz.

(Schulz later changes to Schultz on various official records)

The following scenario about the Schultz’s family has been constructed from using the details supplied on various family records such as death, birth and marriage certificates of Johann Wilhelm & Johanne Julianna (nee Klopstein) Schultz and their children, and the information from various sources on the internet.

The early days - Johann Wilhelm Schulz (33 yrs old) marries Johanne Julianna Klopstein (19 yrs old) some where in Germany circa 1844 – 45. A possible place could be Woolstane Prussia; this place was mentioned on their son John Paul’s marriage certificate to Julia Briggs. John Paul mentions his birthplace as being Woolstane Prussia, this isn’t correct as official records have John being born at Blumberg South Australia. This is probably where his parents came from, as they are also mention on the certificate under parental details, possibly John Paul gave this place as where his parents came from by mistake to the minister filling out the marriage certificate.

After searching the various records on this place recorded as ‘Woolstane Prussia’, nil results were found. But a place called ‘Wollstein’ located in Prussia has been found, remembering that spelling on early day records wasn’t reliable, and given that the minister wasn’t German or that John Paul hadn’t been to his parents native place of origin, it would be quite feasible to presume that he knew where his parents came from in Germany but didn’t know how to spell it. Both his parents were still alive at this time and living at Wodonga Victoria, which isn’t that far away from Sandy Creek Kiewa where John Paul married Julia Briggs. If Wollstein is ‘Woolstane’ then we have a possible place of origin in Germany for the Schultz’s.

My hypothesis is that ‘Wollstein Prussia’ is ‘Woolstane Prussia’ from John Paul’s marriage certificate. The real proof of course, comes with official records showing a connection to this area with the Schultz’s. Now if we presume that Wollstein is a starting point to trace the Schultz family, then the following articles from the Internet helps us to appreciate the problems in tracing records for the Schultz’s.

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Wollstein Prussia (now Wolsztyn located in Poland) - Wollstein is now part of Poland but used to be in Prussia. The spelling is now Wolsztyn (German: Wollstein) and was formerly in Zielonogoskie vojvidship; it is 50 km southwest of Poznan. (Poland)

The small, picturesque town of Wolsztyn (Wollstein) is one of several towns in the area where a roundhouse and maintenance facilities are maintained for steam locomotives. This is literally the last steam-hauled mainline train service in Europe and among the last in the world. In Wolsztyn you can also visit the museum of Robert Koch - the Nobelist, the discoverer of tuberculosis bacillus.

Wolsztyn - In the past a well-known centre of woollen cloth production, the town of Wolsztyn (pop. 11,000) is a popular holiday spot situated amidst lakes and on the river Obra. There is a tourist hostel in the Classicist 19th century palace. Recreation and water sports centre on Lake Wolsztynskie. Besides the 18th century Baroque church, worth a visit is also the local regional museum arranged in the workshop of an outstanding sculptor, Marcin Rozek. 10 km. south-west from Wolsztyn lies the village of Obra with valuable post-Cistersian church and monastery from the 18th century, while 12 km. east from Wolsztyn, near Poznan road, sits a little town of Rakoniewice which has partly preserved its historical market square with arcaded houses dating back to the 18th century; there is also an interesting museum of fire fighting. Fans of kayaking should be delighted to use the attractive waterway of River Obra, which is interconnecting a number of the local

(Source, lhttp://www.ciesin.ci.uw.edu.pl/poland/orbis/fold_3.htmakes)

The Schultz family later emigrated from Germany circa 1844 –45 to South Australia. The family moved to Blumberg and Lobethal areas at first, which were German settlements in South Australia.

Leaving Prussia – Johann and Johanne first child was Augusta Wilhelmina; she was born in Germany circa 1844 –45. Johann Wilhelm Schulz death certificate has him arriving in South Australia circa 1844 - 45

Johanne Julianna Schulz nee Klopstein, arrival year is circa 1850 (from death certificate). But this cannot be correct due to Johann August Friedrick being born on the 2nd December 1846 at Lobethal. Parental details include both Johann and Johanne being present. It’s likely they both came out together or Johann came out first to set up a home and Johanne came out later.

Death certificates are only as accurate as the person supplying the information, and as such cannot be trusted as 100% accurate. So from the information gathered so far, an arrival year could be estimated from 1844 to the 2nd December 1846. The ships below fit within the time frame. The passenger’s lists for each one of them will need to be examined. And hopefully one of them will be the ship that brought the Schulz family to South Australia

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Reasons for leaving Prussia -Religion was not the only reason for some German families wanting to emigrate. Some of them were motivated by economic reasons also. The population of Germany was growing rapidly, meaning there were more people than the amount of work available, and two very bad harvests there in 1844 and 1846 made life for poor people very tough. The German states at that time were still pretty much a farming economy

Lobethal South Australia - The first official mention of the Schultz family arrival in Australia (so far found) comes with the birth of Johann Wilhelm and Johanne Julianna 2nd child, Johann August Friedrick Schulz, he was born on the 2nd December 1846 at Lobethal South Australia.

1848 Johann Henrich Schulz born (3rd child) reg. Lobethal

1850 Maria Elizabeth Schulz born (4th child) reg. Blumberg (now called Birdwood)1852 Johann Paul Schulz born (5th child) reg. Blumberg (Birdwood)

Town History of Birdwood - The name Birdwood comes from Sir William Birdwood, an Australian General during World War I who led the Anzacs at Gallipoli. His name was an obvious choice when the World War I place names committee decided to replace the town's original name of Blumberg.

How the first name came into being is still a matter for debate, but the most likely source was early settlers coming from the Prussian town of Blumberg, which is close to the river route used by the Silesian pioneers on their way from the likes of Züllichau and Klemzig.Blumberg, then, was predominantly German in origin. Migrants who had temporarily settled at Lobethal began looking for land of their own in 1848. Pastor Fritzsch recommended this spot beside the Torrens, where he camped on the way to Bethany.Birdwood grew with homes on land leased from G F Angas and a church some distance away; then complications were caused by the split in the Lutheran church. There was also another small village called Oliventhal, separated from Blumberg by a single farm.

Oliventhal is little more than a memory, though a German style half-timbered cottage is named Oliventhal and reflects the mid-19th century beginnings of the village.Blumberg soon provided support for outlying farmers as well, particularly with its flourmill. There were also periodic gold finds in the area, and this helped establish Blumberg as a supply centre. Such factors helped Birdwood become an influential township in the upper Torrens region.

First in line for the visitor is the National Motor Museum. From modest beginnings, simply known as Birdwood Mill Museum, its large and historically important collection of motor cars, motor cycles and commercial vehicles deserve its more commanding title of National Motor Museum.

The Blumberg Hotel managed to reverse the trend of substituting allied names for German ones during World War I. Originally (1856) a single-storey hotel known as the Napoleon Bonaparte (apparently because some early settlers had been conscripted into Napoleon's army while still living in Silesia), it gained large-scale extensions two decades later. This brought to its present form of a two-storey bluestone building with balcony and impressive iron lacework.

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Two other hotels had by then been de-registered. One was the Bismark, whose licence only existed for a couple of years or so - it still stands as a private dwelling in the main street. Other surviving buildings began as a blacksmith, butter factory, post office, primary school and more. One of Theodore Pflaum's houses is now part of Birdwood High School.

Structures still serving their original purpose include the Institute, a Catholic church and a complex with the Lutheran church at its heart. The Holy Cross Lutheran Church was built west of the main town area. Its cemetery is the earliest portion of the complex, while the Gothic Revival church was erected in 1860.North of Birdwood is the Cromer Conservation Park.

During the 8km run from Birdwood to Gumeracha the Torrens begins to assert its presence as a river. The country still holds a pleasantly rural aspect with gently rounded, grassy hills. The views are park-like, often with a canopy of towering river red gums.

At times the River Torrens provides a delightful vision; the stream is broader and more open with its water tumbling over stones and little boulders like mini rapids.

(Source, http://www.adhills.com.au/tourism/towns/birdwood/history.html)

1854 Maria Anna Bertha Schulz born (6th child) reg. Adelaide

1856 Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Schulz (7th child) reg. Nuriootpa S.A

Parrot Hill is near present day town of Moculta South Australia and about 14 kilometers from Nuriootpa.

1858 Louise Emile (Amelia) Martha Schulz born (8th child) reg. Parrot Hill S.A1860 Ernest Rudolf Schulz born 6th August (9th child) reg. Parrot Hill S.A dies on the

20th December, aged 18 weeks.

Leaving South Australia - Between the 21st December 1860 and 1861, the Schulz family move from South Australia to the Albury district then to Barnawartha and finally settling at Wodonga Victoria by 1866 with the birth of Charles Alfred.

1861 Martha Schultz born at Albury N.S.W

1863 Julius Edward Schulz born 16th November (11th child) reg. Barnawartha, Victoria.

Charles Alfred Schultz (12th child) birth is registered at Belvior Victoria; Belvior later became Wodonga on the 3rd March 1876.

1866 Charles Alfred Schulz born (12th child) reg. Belvior, Victoria.1870 Augusta W. Schulz marries Charles C. Brown (Vict)

Johann A. F. Schulz marries Maria E. Haeusler (Vict)1871 Maria A. B. Schulz marries John A. C. Kleinitz (Vict)1874 Augusta W. Brown nee Schulz remarries to a John B. Cruden (2nd husband)

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1876 The town of Belvior becomes known as Wodonga1878 Johann H. Schulz marries Mary Ann E. Schurina (Vict)1879 Louise Emilie (Amelia) Martha Schulz dies (Wodonga, Vict) age 21 yrs leaves

behind 1 small child1880 Johann P. Schulz marries Julia Briggs (Sandy Creek Kiewa, Vict)

Louise E. M. Schulz marries Christian Phefley 1881 Carl L. W. Schulz marries Hannah Briggs (Sandy Creek Kiewa Vict)1882 Johann Wilhelm Schulz dies at Wodonga1885 Johanne Julianna Schulz nee Klopstein dies at Wodonga 1890 Augusta W. Cruden nee Brown nee Schulz dies Melbourne1906 Julius E. Schulz marries Maud L. E. Ahma (Albury N.S.W)1907 Johann A. Schulz dies Tallangatta Victoria

Carl L. W. Schulz dies Wodonga Victoria1919 Johann H. Schulz dies Wodonga Victoria1921 Johann P. Schulz dies Leeton N.S.W1923 Maria Anna Bertha Kleinitz nee Schultz dies at Bairnsdale1939 Julius E. Schulz dies Junee1944 Charles A. Schulz dies Junee N.S.W1945 Louise E. Martha Phefley nee Schulz dies N.S.W (The last of the original Schulz

family)

The spelling of Schulz changes to Schultz as the year’s progress, different documents offer different variations of the way Schulz was spelt. I have use Schulz due the baptisms of the Schulz children, at Lobethal S.A. The pastor being German himself and being literate, should I hope have a better idea on the original spelling of the name

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Johanne Julianna (nee Klopstein) & Johann Wilhelm Schultz

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Chapter 1 - Augusta Wilhelmina Schulz

Augusta Wilhelmina was the first child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. She was born circa 1845, Germany. She first married a Charles Carmichael Brown in 1870 (Victoria). Her second marriage was to a John B. Cruden in 1874 at Albury N.S.W. She died on the 12th February 1890 Melbourne Victoria.

Charles Carmichael Brown was born in Dundee (further details unknown)

John B. Cruden was born (further details unknown)

Children details are unknown

(Further details unknown)

Chapter 2 - Johan August Friedrick Schulz Johan August Friedrick was the second child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born on the 2nd December 1846 at Lobethal S.A. Johan August married Maria Ernestine Haeusler in 1870 (Victoria) He died on the 26th March 1907 at Tallangatta, Victoria.

Maria Ernestine Schulz nee Haeusler was born on the 3rd December 1849 at Lobethal, South Australia. She was the daughter of Wilhelm Haeusler and Elenora Schultz. (Elenora Schultz was the daughter of Johann Schulz & Elizabeth Slumm She was born in Prussia) Maria died on the 10th October 1936 at Melbourne, aged 86 years.

Their known children are: Emma Mathilde, Louisa Eda, Edward August, Herman Heinrich, Ermestine Emma, Albertina? Bertha? Ernest Paul, Pauline Anna, Albert Edward, Frederick W., Herbert Adolph, Arthur Gustav Schultz

Chapter 3 - Johann Heinrich Schulz

Johann Heinrich was the third child of Johann Wilhelm Schultz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born on the 29th December 1848 in Lobethal South Australia He married Mary Ann Elizabeth Schurina in 1878 (Victoria). Johann Heinrich died on the 25th April 1919 (buried at Wodonga, Victoria)

Mary Ann Elizabeth Schulz nee Schurina was born on the 15th August 1857 Beechworth, Vict. She was the daughter of John Schwind (sic) and Margaret Mollelor. She died on the 30th December 1902 at Wodonga, aged 45 years.

Their known children are: John William, Albert Edward, Frederick Charles, James Peter George Leslie Ha, Andrew R., Ethel May, Joseph, Emily Alice Ada, Percy Clarence, Mary Annie Elsie.

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Chapter 4 - Maria (Mary) Elizabeth Schulz

Maria (Mary) Elizabeth Schulz was the fourth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. She was born on the 28th November 1850 at Blumberg, S.A. She married a Herman August Langhein on the 28th May 1868 at Albury N.S.W. Maria died on the (unknown)

Herman (Henry) August Langheim was born (Further details unknown)

Their known children are: Ernest August, Anny Maria, Wilhelmina Amelia & Martha Paulina.


Chapter 5 - Johann Paul Schulz

Johann Paul Schulz was the fifth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born on the 26th August 1852, at Blumberg and was baptised on the 7th September 1852 at Lobethal, South Australia. John Paul married a Julia Briggs on the 27th September 1880, at Sandy Creek Kiewa, Victoria.

Johann Paul Schulz later changed the spelling of his name to John Paul Schultz: the spelling was found in the South Australian birth Indexes:

Johann lists his birthplace on his marriage certificate as being Woolstone Prussia; this is could be where his parents came from. As a birthplace has been found for him at Blumberg South Australia.

Julia Schultz nee Briggs was born circa 1863, at Sandy Creek Kiewa; as yet a birth year has not been located. Her parents may have not registered Julia. She was the daughter of John Thomas Briggs and Hannah Briggs. Her father’s occupation is listed as a being a miner.

Their known children are: Veron Paul, John William, Julius Albert Henry, Ethel Maud, Arthur Herbert, Lilly Amelia, Edgar Arnold, Walter Stanley Francis, Charles, Ivy Flo, Grenville Norman & Morton R.

(for more information see The family story of Johann Paul Schultz & Julia Briggs)

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Chapter 6 - Maria Anna Bertha Schulz

Maria Anna Bertha Schulz was the sixth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. She was born on the 10th August 1854 at Adelaide; S.A She married a John Alfred Conrad Kleinitz in 1871 (Victoria). She died in 1923 registered at Bairnsdale, Victoria.

John Alfred Conrad Kleinitz was born circa 1842 in Prussia. He was the son of John Alfred Conrad Kleinitz & (unknown). He died in 1927, registered in Bairnsdale Victoria.

Their known children are: Bertha Lydia, Oswald Conrad, Gustav Alexander, Johann Wilhelm G., Clara Amelia, Benjamin Bruno (d. 1956 Bruthen), Victoria Adelaide, Martha Rosamunde, Ernest Gotthard

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Chapter 7 - Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Schulz

Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Schulz was the seventh child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born on the 26th August 1856 at Nuriootpa S.A. And married a Hannah Briggs on the 30th May 1881 at Sandy Creek Victoria. Carl died on the 13th June 1907 at Wodonga, Victoria.

Hannah Briggs was born on the 6th February 1860 at Sandy Creek Kiewa Victoria. She was the daughter of John Thomas Briggs and Hannah Briggs. Hannah died on the 14th October 1896 at Wangaratta Victoria. Hannah was the sister of Julia Briggs, who married Johann Paul Schultz. Two sisters (Briggs) married two brothers (Schultz).

In loving Memory- Our beloved father Carl Lodovic William Schultz who died June 13, 1907 aged 50 years 10 months

With patience great he bore the painThat suffered him to die

And those who love him here on earthWill meet him by and by

Worthy of lasting love was heFrom those he left behind

A better Father could not beA Father more true and kind.

Deeply Regretted

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Above photo is of: Carl Lodovic William Schultz

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Chapter 6:1 Charles Ludovie Schultz

Charles Ludovie Schultz was the eldest child of Carl Lodovic Wilhelm Schultz & Hannah Briggs. He was born on the 9th August 1883 at Sandy Creek Kiewa Victoria. He married a Janet Jessie Cullen on the 12th January 1916 at Leeton.

Janet Jessie Cullan was born in 1894 at Woodstock N.S.W. She was the daughter of Thomas Cullan and Marion (?). Their known children are: Frederick Thomas, John Percival, William Edgar, Clifford Charles, Phyllis May, Rex Gordon & Olive Janet Schultz.

Obituary - A pioneer residence of Leeton. Mr. Charles Frederick William Schultz, of farm 553, Yanco, passed away in the Leeton District Hospital on Sunday last, aged 75 years. He had been ill for the past six months.

Born at Sandy Creek, near Wodonga (Vict). The late Mr. Schultz came to the irrigation areas 48 years ago at the very inception of the scheme. He married in the Leeton Methodist Church on January 12th, 1916, Janet Cullan.

He survived by his wife, four sons and two daughters, all residents of Leeton, as follows: Frederick Thomas, William Edgar, Clifford Charles, Phyllis (Mrs. A. McRae), Rex Gordon and Olive Janet.

Also survived by two brothers Sid (Queensland), and Percy (Wellington, N.S.W) and by; one sister, Mrs. L. E. Rowe of Farm 127 Leeton. He was pre-deceased by one sister, Mrs. W. Schubert. The funeral moved from Ashton's Parlours on Monday last for the Leeton Cemetery. Mr. A. Mott, of Narrandera officiated. Chief mourners were the widow and members of the family, Pallbearers were the four sons.

(M.I, 7th March 1958)

Obituary - Mrs. J. J. Schultz. A well-known resident of the irrigation area for 59 years. Mrs. Janet Jessie Schultz of 5 Cherry Avenue, Leeton, died in the Griffith Base Hospital, on October 10, aged 79 years.

Daughter of the late Thomas and Marion Cullan. She was born at Woodstock N.S.W. As a young women she came from Cowra in 1913 to Leeton and obtained employment in Leeton and Narrandera. This was at the start of the Yanco Irrigation Area and there was much activity in building the new town of Leeton.

As Miss Cullan, her marriage to Mr. Charles Frederick William Schultz, took place in Leeton Presbyterian Church on January 12, 1916. She survived by three sons: Frederick Thomas (Leeton), William Edgar (Brisbane), Clifford Charles (Leeton), and two daughters: Phyllis May McRae (Wollongong), and Olive Collie (Leeton).

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There are 19 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband and a son John Percival. The funeral was held in Leeton on October 12. The cortege moved from the Jehovah Witnesses Kingdom hall Parkview, after the service conducted by Mr. K. Ackland, who also officiated at the graveside at Leeton Cemetery. Pallbearers were the three sons and a grandson Michael Clifford Schultz.

(T. M. I., Wednesday 25th October 1972)

Chapter 6:2 Lillie Edith Schultz

Lillie Edith Schultz was the second child of Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Schultz & Hannah Briggs. She was born on the 14th January 1886, at Wodonga Victoria. She was the daughter of Carl Lodovic William Schultz and Hannah Briggs. Her father was the brother of Johann Paul Schultz and her mother was the sister of Julia Briggs. She married a John Rowe on the 17th July 1914 at Sydney N.SW.

John Rowe was born on the 23rd October 1876 at Penzance, Cornwall England. He was the son of Henry Gordon Rowe and Elen Eliza Hosking.

The children of Lillie Edith Schultz and John Rowe are: Vera May Rowe, John Hosking Rowe, Sydney William Rowe, H enry Gordon Rowe & Florence Maud Rowe.

Lillie Edith's mother, Hannah Schultz (nee Briggs) died when she was only 36 years old. Lillie Edith went to live with her Uncle John Paul Schultz and her mother's sister Julie Schultz (nee Briggs) after her mother's death.

John Rowe (senior) parents came to Australia or New Zealand, when he was a baby. His older sister also came with them, she was born in 1873.

John Rowe lived in New Zealand for many years; he first married an Elizabeth Smith (Richards). On the 5th December, circa 1905 in New Zealand. They went to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia where John became a gold miner. He and a mate found and worked the mine called the Fair Play. Their daughter Vera May Rowe was born on the 11th December 1906 at Kalgoorlie. There was also a son James and a daughter Ruby, but both died.

Lillie Edith Schultz and members of her family went to Western Australia to buy land, but returned again. We think it was on the ship Kanowna, which was coming from Fremantle Western Australia, that Lillie Edith met John Rowe and his wife Elizabeth and daughter Vera May about 1911. They then went to Melbourne where Elizabeth and Lillie Edith did dressmaking together with Lillie Edith’s friend Lidie Bartel.

Elizabeth Rowe was expecting a baby, but she died in childbirth on the 29th September 1912. The baby also died. They were buried on 1st October 1912 in Coburg Cemetery Melbourne. Lillie Edith looked after John Rowe and Vera May for a while in Melbourne, then she returned to Leeton as her family needed her there.

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In the years before 1910 Lillie Edith Schultz worked with her Auntie Julie Schultz (nee Briggs) and Uncle John Paul Schultz, helping in the boarding house at Whitton. At the time, the first canals were being constructed for the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. This work started in late 1906, by 1912 the first water was supplied on the 13th July, 1912.

In 1913 Lillie Edith went back to Sydney where she worked in a grocery shop at Pyrmont with John Rowe's mother, Elen Eliza Rowe. It was from there that Lillie Edith and John Rowe were married on the 17th July 1914 at Fairfield Sydney. Lillie Edith and Vera May Rowe went to Leeton to see Lillie Edith's family. They stayed with her sister Mabel Hannah (Schultz) and her husband Frederick William Schubert. They were some of the first people to take land on the M.I.A. Their farm number was 14.

Lillie Edith and John Rowe lived at 1 The Avenue Drummoyne, Sydney. There was a friend, she was Mrs. Parkhill, her children were: Thelma, Doris, Jack and Bobby. Another friend was Mrs. Lucky. They lived at Drummoyne when John Hoskin and Sydney William were born, John Hoskin was born on the 14th July 1915 and Sydney William on the 25th July 1916. Henry Gordon was born on the 3rd September 1917 at home where they lived at Bulburra Rd, Ultimo.

In 1917 there was a big Industrial Strike putting hundreds of people out of work in Sydney. So the Rowe family left Sydney and went to Leeton. Henry Gordon was only a few months old at the time. John and Lillie Edith and their family found work with Mr. T. G. Williams at Qurray (sic) Paddock between Leeton and Narrandera. John worked as a supervisor, they had sheep and he worked cleaning out rabbits, where they lived in a camp. There was a man called Mr. Herbert, he stocked the farm with Ostriches, some were over six feet tall. Lillie Edith was always frightened the boys would get hurt. As they were so strong and there legs were so big. The men used to put a black stocking over the Ostriches head, and then pull out the tail and wing feathers. The feathers were sent to Sydney for sale, and were used in ladies fashion wear and the making of hats and other fashions.

John Hoskin remembers having a dog called Boy; Boy was a crossbred cattle dog that Uncle Sydney Alfred Schultz gave them. Boy was good at killing foxes, but was not a good dog to run fast, so he used to take a short cut when the other dogs ran a fox down he would be there for the kill. He remembers one day a fox ran into a log his Dad (John Rowe) cut a hole in the log and put his belt around the fox’s leg, Lillie Edith held it until he cut it out. John Hoskin also remembers having a cow called Biddy she got very sick with milk fever, and was down on the ground and could not walk Dad made a sling out of bags and putting in four posts around the cow, he was able to get her on her feet again. They fed her and soon she was well. He also had pet lambs, one called Jessie and one Jimmy.

Vera May tells the story of when they were going to leave, Dad said they would kill the lambs for meat and Mum (Lillie Edith) and Vera May cried. Mum said, "It would be like killing one of the kids". The lambs were sold to a man on a horse and cart. As he was taking them away he sneezed and his teeth fell out into the red dust.

John Hoskin remembers Sydney William and him hiding under the bed when Uncle Sydney Alfred came, because they didn't have their pants on.

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The Rowe family returned to Sydney where their daughter Florence Maude was born on the 19th April 1920. The family now lived at Camperdown, close to the Children’s Hospital. When Florence Maude was about 11 months old she became very sick with Gastroenteritis, she was kept in hospital until she was well again when Lillie Edith came to take her home she had forgotten her, and she cried for the nurses.

There was a lady next door and she was Mrs. Ferness, she was a good friend to Lillie Edith. The family later moved to 20 Gibbs St., Newtown.

At one stage John Rowe studied the race horses form, he would take notice of each race, and pick out what horses he thought would win, after studying the form for a long time he went to the races and bet on the horses, everything went well and he made a living for his family that way. Then one race meeting everything went wrong, he lost on many races. The last race he had to put on all the money he had. The horse won he got his money back after such a close call he gave the horse racing away.

John Rowe worked putting in the underground railway tunnels in Sydney. Being a miner he used explosives for blowing away the earth. On one job he worked under the name of Rowen, work was very hard to get, and they were only putting on Irish people. Lillie Edith never knew anything about it until a letter came for John Rowen. Then he told her why. On another job he worked at, the boss talked to the men like dogs, they were abused and sworn at. John told his work mates if ever the boss spoke to him like that he would flatten him, then the day came and he did just what he said he would. He lost his job but all his mates were very proud of him to stand up to such a terrible man. He was lucky and got other work before Lillie Edith found out what happened. He also worked on the T & G Building, he was so far up, and it was hard to see him from the ground, as it was such a tall building.

When the family lived at 20 Gibbs St., Newtown the people next door were Mr. & Mrs. Winshuttle, there was a son named Tuby his mother used to drink and Tuby would come and stay at our place. Next door was Mr. Hamilton, next was Mrs. Harbridge and her daughter, they used to fight a lot.

John Hoskin and Sydney William went to school at Newtown, John Hoskin's teacher Mrs. Johnson used to read him bible stories for years after he left school she posted him bible books.

There was a family Mr. & Mrs. Mean, they had a little girl called Babby. Florence Maude and Babby once drank Eunice and got drunk, this made them sick, but they were lucky as they recovered.

When living at Newtown Lillie Edith took in sewing, making men’s shirts for a factory. The shirts were all cut out and had to be made up and sold in the shops. Florence Maude remembers living in Sydney, she was going to Narrabeen Lakes, "I had a new hat on, and I fell head first into the rock pool. Sydney William pulled me out by the legs and my legs were all scratched and my hat was spoilt.

Mum (Lillie Edith) talked about the time when she took us kids to the beach, there were a lot of Christmas beetles washed up John Hoskin filled his shirt pockets with them coming home on the Tram. The beetles all came alive and they crawled over the other people.

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While living in Sydney, John Hoskin had a broken leg and spent time in hospital. The Rowe family left Sydney again in June 1924, John Hoskin 8, Sydney William 7, Henry Gordon 6, and Florence Maude 4. Vera May stayed in Sydney, she was 16 ½ years old.

The Rowe family came back to Leeton again; there was not much work about. John Rowe and Frederick William Schubert went to Yalgogrin, they went looking for gold on Mr. McDonald's place, it was about eight miles from Yalgogrin, later Lillie Edith and the family joined them.

We lived next door to the Police Station, Mr. & Mrs. Hardy, they were very nice people and Mrs. Hardy was a real friend to Lillie Edith. I remember going yabbing with Mrs. Hardy and Henry Gordon falling back in a bucket of Yabbies, and one hanging on his trousers. In those days the Government used to pay people to look for gold, they were paid so much a week so much for sinking a mineshaft, paid so much a foot to make a drive from the shaft.

The Government men would come and measure how long each drive was. John Hoskin remembers dad saying that one man measuring his driveway saying, "it was the full length of the tape, and two pick handles and one shovel hand long. They never found any gold, the only money they had was what the Government paid them. If they found gold, the money came back to them. Dad used to ride a bike out the eight miles every day.

John Hoskin, Sydney William and Henry Gordon went to school at Yalgogrin School, Mr. Braley was the teacher he would put the three boys in a row and say "Three Rowes in a Row."

It was at Yalgogrin, that the Rowe family first met the Seaman family, the two families were at a gathering at a hall, and Mrs. Seaman and Mum were talking. Mrs. Seaman was expecting the birth of Merriwyn and Mum said "she was a dressmaker and would do the sewing for the coming baby" that was April 1926.

After leaving the Gog we lived at a place called Weethalle on Mr. Homes places, Dad made his living catching rabbits and selling the skins. He went from farm to farm cleaning out the rabbits for the farmers. Mum and the boys had a job setting fire to the fallen trees and clearing the land for the farmers. Dad worked hard and he got together a bail of rabbit skins, he took them to send them away on the train to Sydney. After all the work they were stolen and he never got any money for them at all. He always blamed the guard on the train of changing the name of the sender as he never got a receipt and could not do anything about them. Dad used to poison foxes with butter baits and poison. The skins were sent to Sydney to make ladies coats and other fashions.

Mr. George Sheen found gold on Mr. Seaman's land, he came and saw Dad about working as partners with him, he camped out for a while, and then we all went to live on the Seaman's land in 1926. We were there when Merriwyn was born, Ray was three years old, Velma 18 months. Mum looked after Ray and Velma while Mrs. Seaman was in hospital.

Dad never did any good at the mine, and in 1927 we came back to Leeton. We lived in a hand made home, across the road from the Schubert's farm, the roof was corrugated iron, the walls were made of wheat bags, Mum used to paste the wall with newspaper. When it got dirty, she covered them with more paper. Mum was a great gardener. She had all sorts of vegetables and worked so hard. John Hoskin, Sydney William and Henry Gordon at first went to Leeton School. Then they went to Yanco School. Florence Maude went to Merungle Hill School with the

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Schubert kids, the teacher was Mr. Rolland Dart he used to ride his bike out from Leeton every day he had every class himself.

In late 1928 we brought farm 127 at Leeton. It was the farm that Julie (Briggs) and John Paul Schultz lived on. The farm was planted with Peach trees. The commission sent men around and cut all the trees down, as there was too much seepage to grow trees there.

Mr. & Mrs. Watkins lived on farm 128 there was, Jim, Irene and Norma. We were all good friends and still good friends all our lives.

Mr. & Mrs. Mort lived at farm 126, there was Doris, Charlie, Eva and George, and we were all good friends.

We went to school at Yanco about 1mile away, everyday school started at 9.30 am and finished at 3.30 pm. When the boys left school Florence Maud went back to Leeton with Irene Watkins. We had about a mile to walk; sometimes we would wait for Irene's father and get a ride home in the sulky.

Dad brought a Model T Ford Truck; he went selling fruit and vegetables. He would buy the fruit from the growers and take it to the homes of the people. He went to Barellan, Ardlethan and Ariah Park, he would be away two nights. The police advised him to carry a revolver, as he camped in a shed and carried a fair bit of money. But he never had any trouble.

In April 1930 we left Leeton, (renting the house) we went back to gold mining. We went back to Percy and Eva Seaman's place (Dalmore) near Tallimba. Dad (John Rowe) and Garnet Clarence Eden Preston (Neal) worked as partners on the mine.

We once again lived in tents and a bush built home. There was a large dam so we had water. Mum soon had plenty of vegetables growing. We were living about 1 mile from the Seaman's home.

It was there that Velma, Merriwyn and Bill were my playmates, and they pinched my Yellow Rabbit. It was there that the toilet had four seats; we all sat down together hitting our legs on the Side. Velma was born on the 25th September 1925, Merriwyn was born on the 10th August 1926 and Bill born on the 24th January 1928.

Valda was born on the 22nd April 1931, Valerie was born on the 25th September 1933, Vera (Glender) was born on the 25th December 1935, and Wilfred was born on the 10th June 1940. Mr Seaman born 21st December 1893. Percy died on the 12 October 1968 and Eva was born on the 28th August 1898, and was living at Temora aged 87 years in 1986.

The mine was made into a company with businessmen Mr. Bert Ankquitill and Mr. Abbalett from Melbourne. They used to come in a Rolls Royce also a Bentley car covered with leather. Us kids all had rides in them. Mr. Ankquitill camped at the mine sometimes. On one night it was raining he went out in the rain with his soap and towel and had a wash.

Mr. Abbalett had a collage-educated son (we called Sonkie). One day the boys got him on a raft on the dam, then swam back and left him there.

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There was a big Gold Mining Battery put on the dam, where the stone was broke up into sand. The gold was caught on copper plates with Quick Silver; the copper plates were about three feet wide and five feet long. The silver cake was then put into a retort (a thing like a saucepan with a pipe and a sealed lid).

Then put on the fire. The Quick Silver would pour out as gas, cooling off under water and turning back into quick silver again. Then when cool the gild is taken out. It looks like a cold cake about three inches by two inches. Then taken to the bank.

The family were at Seaman's property when Elen Eliza Rowe (nee Hosking) died. Dad went to Sydney for her funeral. We were there when the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened on the 19th March 1932.

We were there in 1930 when the mice plague was on. There were mice by the thousands. Mum had a tin trunk with family photos in, when she opened it, there were mice filling the trunk half way, the photos were all spoilt. Dad put down poison fat for the mice, our little pet Parrot picked up some the fat, the mice had carried away, and our pet died.

We were again living at Leeton in 1933. Dad went selling fruit again, John Hoskin went and helped him he was 18 years old then.

In October 1934 we went to Schmalkuche (small cooks) place at Mimosa Rd., Temora. We were gold mining again. John Hoskin, Sydney William and Henry Gordon all worked in the mine with Dad. We lived in another homemade house. It had a corrugated iron with bag walls on the outside and bag walls on the inside. It was warm in the wintertime, and it had ground floors. There was a living room and Mum and Dad had a bedroom, the rest of us had a small tent each to sleep in.

The gold bearing stone was sent to E.R.S at Port Kembla and I remember we never got alot of money. Mum made bread and we had a lot of rabbits for food, we never went with out food we would go to Temora often, not every week. We spent a lot of time in the bush; we had our own cow for milk.

In December 1935 we went for six weeks camping and fishing holiday. While we were away Vera May's husband Andy Lennox died in January 1936, we found out when returning home.It was in February 1936 that Dad got sick. He was in Temora Hospital and then in the Sydney Hospital for about six weeks.

He was operated on under a local anaesthetic and had a kidney removed. While the doctors were operating on him he was talking to them.

It was only when the tests came back, they found out it was Tuberculosis. The other kidney was sick too. So they sent him home. Mum knew that Dad would not get better when she came home.

But she lived with it not telling us he was dying. Dad only once walked up as far as the mine. He died in his sleep early in the morning of the 11th June 1936; he was only 59 years old. He was buried at Temora.

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John Hoskin was 20, Sydney William 19, Henry Gordon 18, Florence Maude 16, Mum (Lillie Edith) 50 years, and Vera May 30 years.

John Rowe was a good man and a loving father, and as long as I can remember he and Mum were sweethearts.

He was a man to help other people, he had his lending money of ten pounds, when he was paid back he lent it to someone else.

John Rowe was a very modest man, I don't ever remember seeing him without a shirt or Singlet on. I remember Mum buying me a top and shorts, to wear over my swimming costume. I was dressed, on my way down the path, dad came out and made me take them off and put a dress on. He said to Mum, "I was just waiting to see how far you would go". I remember talking to Dad at Temora. He said to me "always look for the good in people, and it will over ride the bad". All these years I have never forgotten what he told me.

John Rowe was not a religious man, but he believed in God, and lived a good clean honest life and he enjoyed a drink. We would go to Leeton town to do the shopping, he would help Mum, and then just before we came home, he would say, "I had better see the doctor". He would go and have a drink and talk for about half an hour and then he took us all home.

He liked playing cards with the family and friends. I still remember how he used to bang down the last winning card.

He never had a special friend, they were all friends to him I remember he got much pleasure in talking to Mum's sisters husband, Frederick William Schubert. He loved taking us all to the river fishing, we would stay over night on the sand. We all had a bush rod, cut from small trees. They were happy times as John Hoskin, Sydney William, Henry Gordon and myself.

Florence Maude remembers just how much our Mother and Father loved us. Mum and us kids were the love of his life. When I think back no parents could have loved their children anymore.

When we were living at Temora, we had good friends Mr. & Mrs. Weackert, Alf, Roy, Elva, Liz and Ernie Schmalkuche and family Mavis and Colin. There were Mr. & Mrs. Cochran and family, they all lived around Mimosa Rd.

Lillie Edith and family moved back to Leeton. Vera May came to Temora the day of Dad's funeral; she was in a taxi on the way coming to see us. We met her on the road to the funeral. Uncle Millis was also there at Temora. Aunty Lil and family, Uncle Sydney Alfred and wife Madeline and family. I cannot remember who else. The boys and Vera May went back to Temora and brought all our things home, we again lived at farm 127, Leeton.

Vera May and her daughter Alma came and lived at Leeton on farm 127 for some time, she was there when Jim was born. I remember she was waiting with Albert Russell Schultz, at the hospital. When Dr. White came out to tell them he was born. She said to the doctor “It does not matter what it is, even a couple of ducks, as long as it is over.

I remember Alma: she was about 14 years old, with long dark brown hair, big brown eyes. And about 4ft 8 inches tall I have not seen her since.

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Vera May first worked at the cannery and was working at the Wade Hotel cleaning rooms, when Jim was born on the 27th June 1941.

Lillie Edith Rowe and her family lived at farm 127, her brother Sydney Alfred Schultz decided to move to Theodore in Queensland. So he sold the chaff cutting business to Lillie Edith and her sons. The Chaff cutter went to farm to farm cutting the farmers Hay into chaff. They traded under the name of L.E. (Lillie Edith) Rowe and Sons. It was hard and dirty work, and they worked long hours.

John Hoskin, Sydney William and Henry Gordon worked together and Mum did most of the bookwork. John Hoskin Rowe married Daisy Margaret Preston and he built a home on part of the farm. After Valerie (Rowe) was born there was not enough money to keep his family, by working off the chaff cutter. So John Hoskin got work from Eric Icon, picking fruit near Wattle Hill.

Sydney William and Henry Gordon carried on the business together. It was then that the war was on and Sydney William and Henry Gordon were called up to go to war. But being of the Jehovah Witness religions, they were sent to Goulburn Jail for six months. They served 4 months and were let free for good behaviour. While the boys were away Albert Russell Schultz, Jack, and Teddy Schulz came to help run the chaff cutter. I remember the wages were then three pounds a week.

John Hoskin had gone to live at farm 312. It was the home of George Jeff. Arbuckle, Daisy Margaret Rowe's (nee Preston) stepfather. John Hoskin and Daisy Margaret lived in a house near a lot of orange trees. John Hoskin Rowe and Leslie William Alexander Preston went in for fowls.

Henry Gordon and Lou were married and lived in the house that John Hoskin built on farm 127, Henry Gordon, Sydney William were still working together on the chaff cutter. Henry Gordon had been married only six months, when very early one morning Henry Gordon had his hand caught in the rollers while feeding in the hay, and his hand was cut off.

Later John Hoskin and Daisy Margaret brought a farm along the Yanco Road. It was a fruit farm and had cost 1,250 pounds; the fruit was taken to the Leeton cannery (Letona) they had lived there for about 4 years.

Henry Gordon and Lou went in for fowls, they had hundreds of white Leghorns fowls and the eggs were taken to the egg board. Where all the eggs had to be nice and clean and packed into proper egg boxes. If I remember right, they got four pence a dozen. Henry Gordon had a lot of his fowls stolen at night. They used to climb over the front fence. Later he went in for breeding big white ducks, he had a hundred of them and they were sold to people from Wagga Wagga.

Sydney William carried on the chaff cutter on his own, with the help of hire hands. In about 1951 Sydney William brought a fruit farm at Stoney Point in partnership with Mr. Cook, later he brought Mr. Cook out. Mum lived with Sydney William on the farm; she was well and strong and had a beautiful garden, both flowers and vegetables. She worked helping grading the fruit. Mum was very happy on the farm.

In 1952 John Hoskin and Daisy Margaret sold their farm on the Yanco Road, they brought a farm

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at Corbie Hill, it was another fruit farm. They stayed there until 1959.

Later Henry Gordon and Lou left Leeton and went to Wagga Wagga to live. Then they moved to Oak Flats, where they built a house in Osbourne Pde, Warilla.

Then they sold that home and brought one in Purr Ave. Lake South, they sold again and built another house in Reddall Pde. Lake South where they live today 1986.

In 1959 John Hoskin, Daisy Margaret and family moved to Shellharbour, renting at first then buying a house at 65 Osbourne Pde, Warilla.

John Hoskin and Henry Gordon worked together on a baker’s run they had to deliver bread to every house rain, hail or shine, they found it was hard to please a lot of women. John Hoskin brought another home in Susan Ave, Warilla. He rented out his other house and later sold it. That was in 1960. They lived there until June 1984, when Brian Dennis McAliece, Lois's (Rowe) husband died. Renting the home and living at Leeton again, with Lois selling that home in 1986.

John Hoskin worked at a lot of different jobs while living at Warilla such as: two weeks at the steel works, 4 years at the E.R.S. at Port Kembla, he gave up work for six months to try his inventions, worked at Chambers Bakery in Lake South, worked for Lavis delivering goods, worked for Volvo Trucks putting trucks together, worked 3 years for Firestone doing wheel alignments, worked 3 years at the Esso garage for Colin Martin at Wollongong, worked 6 weeks at the Shell garage at Lake South, worked 9 months at the B.P. garage at Warilla, and at the age of 63 he went on the pension.

On the 18th May 1986 Daisy Margaret Rowe (nee Preston) died after surgery for bowel cancer on her 66th birthday. John Hoskin and Daisy Margaret had five daughters: Valerie, Elaine, Lois, Coral and Mavis.

Sydney William sold his farm at Stoney Point, and then brought a big rice farm at 741 Wamoon. Mum lived with Sydney William on the farm for years; she again had a lovely garden. She cooked and looked after Sydney William for years. He was her Billy boy.

When Sydney William got married she still lived there for a while, then she came to live with Albert Russell Schultz and Florence Maude Schultz (nee Rowe) on the experimental farm at Leeton.

Mum lived with us for about 11 months, then we moved to Warilla in January 1965, we lived in a rented house near Henry Gordon's place for ten months then farm 127 was sold and Lillie Edith brought the house at 5 Terry Ave. Warilla. She paid £3,250 for the house. The house was dirty and needed a lot of work every free moment on the place for a full year. Albert Russell Schultz was so very kind to Mum, I never heard him get cranky with her. When she got to worry him, he would come to me and say "do something with your Mum".

When Albert Russell Schultz died, Mum came to me and said "Darling I know how you feel, I lost your father (John Rowe) all those years ago, so I know how you loved him as I loved your father".

The last few years of Mum's life, she seemed very lost and all mixed up. It was a sad time for me,

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without my husband Albert Russell. There were times I never knew what to do with her. My own darling Mum. All she ever wanted was someone to love her. She died on the 15th March 1972 the last words I heard her say was "Sydney".

In February 1979 Sydney and Julie brought a lovely double storey house at 17 Little Lake Crescent, Warilla right on the beach, they came down for holidays and had tenants in the bottom part.

They are still living on the rice farm at Wamoon. Some day they will come and live at Warilla. They had two daughters, Stephanie 21 and Madeline 15.

Sydney and Julie never came to live at Warilla, the house was sold and the farm too and they brought a lovely house at Wattle Hill. Sydney died after a long illness and Julie still lives there.

Florence Maude Shultz nee Rowe wrote the above story. It was originally titled ‘This is the life story of John Rowe' I have changed parts of the story, adding names and additional paragraphs to help the reader understand, who Florence Maude is talking about.

Interesting facts - Daisy Margaret Rowe (nee Preston) was the daughter of Edwin Alexander Preston (Neal) and Lilly Amelia Schultz. Her mother Lilly Amelia Schultz was the daughter of Johann Paul Schultz and Julia Briggs. Daisy Margaret Preston married John Hoskin Rowe. John Hoskin Rowe is her second cousin as. Lilly Amelia Schultz and Lillie Edith are first cousins.

Florence Maude Schultz (nee Rowe) married Albert Russell Schultz. Albert Russell Schultz was the son of Albert Edward Schultz and Winifred Margaret Russell. Albert Edward Schultz was the son of Johann August Friedrick Shultz and Maria Ernestine Haeusler. Johann August Friedrick Schultz was the brother of Johann Paul Schultz and Carl Lodovic William Schulz

The Schultz boys: Johann Paul, Carl Lodovic William & Johann August Friedrick were the son's of Johann Wilhelm Schulz and Johanne Julianna Klopstein.

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Obituary – The friends of the late Mr. John Rowe will regret to learn of his death. The deceased, who came to the irrigation area in 1920, was a well-respected settler. During his sojourn on this area he made many close and intimate friends. He recently went to the Yalgogrin and Temora districts, where he became interested in mining ventures. Recently he became ill and was operated on in the city, after which he returned to his home, Mimosa road, Temora. Where he slowly became worse till he passed away on Thursday last at the age of 59 years.

Deceased came to Australia when six years of age. He was amongst the pioneers of the Kalgoorlie (West Australia), and was the founder of the Azure gold mine at West Wyalong, which is still operating. He married Miss Edith Schultz, 21 years ago. Messrs. S.A., Fred and William Schultz of Leeton are brothers-in-law. The deceased leaves a widow and five children, the youngest being 16 years of age.

The funeral took place on Friday afternoon, at Temora. Many of his friends and relatives journeyed to Temora to be present at the graveside.

(The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, 16th June 1936)

Headstone -In Loving Memory of Edith Rowe Passed away 15-03-1972 Aged 86 years Loved mother of Hosking, Syd, Harry & Florrie In God’s Care

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Lillie Edith Rowe (nee Schultz) & John Rowe

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Chapter 6:3 Mabel Hannah Schultz

Mabel Hannah Schultz was the third child of Carl Ludovic Wilhelm Schultz & Hannah Briggs. She was born in 1887 at Eldorado Victoria. She married Frederick William Schubert on the 14th March 1906 at Wodonga Victoria.

Frederick William Schubert was born on the 24 June 1873 at Mt. Gambier. He was the son of (unknown) He died on the 15th November 1947.

The known Schubert children are: Percy, Edith, Vera, Frances, Beryl, Gordon, Reg, Noel, Fay & Bill.

Obituary - Mabel Hannah Schubert. One of the earliest settlers of the Yanco Irrigation Area, Mrs. Mabel Hannah Schubert of Farm 14, Leeton passed away on Monday aged 65 years. The late Mrs. Schubert had been ill for the passed eight months. She went to Melbourne for specialist treatment, but died at her daughter's (Frances) residence before entering Hospital.

The late Mrs. Schubert was born at Wangaratta Victoria, and was married at Wodonga on March 14, 1906, and came to Leeton from Wodonga 41 years ago along with her late husband Frederick William Schubert and took up a fruit farm, which they remain on.

She is survived by five sons and five daughters: Percy (Leeton), Edith (Mrs. N.J.C Taylor, Leeton), Vera (Mrs. P.C. Hele, Gosford), Frances (Mrs. R.R. White, Melbourne), Beryl (Leeton), Gordon (Griffith), Reg (Leeton), Noel (Wakool), Fay (Mrs. N.E. Williams, Leeton), Bill (Moulamein). There are 17 grandchildren.

Mrs. Schubert is also survived by one sister, Mrs. L.E. Rowe of Leeton, and three brothers, Fred (Yanco), Syd (Jondaryan, Queensland), Percy (Deniliquin). The funeral on Wednesday on Wednesday afternoon moved from the Leeton Methodist Church, Rev. P. Goodman, officiated. Chief mourners were members of the family. Pall Bearers were sons Percy, Gordon, Noel, Bill, and son-in-law Norman Taylor and Carl Hely.

(M. I, 24th April 1953)

Obituary – Mr. Frederick William Schubert, one of the original settlers, Mr. Frederick William Schubert died in the Leeton District Hospital on Saturday night last after an illness over last three weeks. Born at Mount Gambier South Australia 75 years ago. He was married in Wodonga and resided there a few years before coming to Leeton with his wife and four children in 1912. Prior to going to Wodonga he had resided at Horsham Victoria. A neighbour Mr. Archie McCowan saw the late Mr. Schubert arrived on the area in 1912 with a wagon, horses and plant they came overland from Wodonga and took up the farm No. 14 Leeton, under a permissive occupancy and be became the permanent lessee in July 1912; and there he remained for the remainder of this life rearing a family of ten children. All of whom were attractive in appearance and manner, and a credit to this district. As a neighbour and friend the late Mr. Schubert was the best of men and his death is mourned sadly by a wide circle of friends and relatives.

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Deceased is survived by his wife and following are the surviving children. Percy (Moulamein), Edith (Mrs. N.J. Taylor, Leeton), Vera (Mrs. P.C. Hely, Gosford), Francis (Mrs. R.R. White, Melbourne), Gordon, Beryl, Reg, Noel and Fay, all of Leeton; and Bill with the occupation forces in Japan. Surviving brother and sister are Mr. Edward Schubert, of Wodonga and Miss Pauline Schubert of Melbourne.

There are nine grandchildren. The funeral moved from the Methodist Church yesterday afternoon, for the Leeton Cemetery. The Rev. F. W. Henderson officiated. The pall bearers were sons, Percy, Gordon and Noel; brother Mr Ted Schubert; son-in-law, Mr. Norman Taylor; and nephew Mr. Fred Schultz. The chief mourners were members of the family. Others present included a number of neighbours and many friends.

The son Bill, who is away with the British Occupation Forces in Japan, was advised of his father’s illness and arrangements made for him to be flown to Australia and he is believed to be on his way home.

(The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, 18th November 1947)

Chapter 6:4 - Sydney Alfred Schultz

Sydney Alfred Schultz was the fourth child of Carl Ludovie Wilhelm Schultz & Hannah Briggs. He was born on the 6th February 1890 at Eldorado, Victoria. He married a Madeline Gertrude Galvin on the (unknown). He died on the (unknown)

Madeline Gertrude Galvin was born (unknown). She was the daughter of (unknown). She died on the 21st December 1972 at Dalby Q.L.D.

Their known children are: Sydney William, Allen Edward, Miriam, Ruth and Alice Schultz.

Chapter 6:5 - Wilfred Gordon Schultz

Wilfred Gordon Schultz was the fifth child of Carl Ludovie Wilhelm Schultz & Hannah Briggs. He was born in 1893 at Traralgon Victoria; Wilfred died aged 2mths and 21 days in 1893 at Traralgon.

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Chapter 6:6 - Andrew Schultz

Andrew Schultz was the sixth child of Carl Ludovie Wilhelm Schultz & Hannah Briggs. Andrew Schultz was born on the 16th September 1896 at Wangaratta Victoria. He married a Violet Main on 25th October 1919 (unknown). He died on the? April 1961 at (unknown).

Violet Main was born on the (unknown). She was the daughter of (unknown). She died (unknown). Their known children are: Vivian, Raymond, Joyce, June & William Schultz.

Andrew Schultz is believed to have been placed in the care of Lilia (Lily) Briggs and her husband Samuel George Gibson, after his mother Hannah Schultz nee Briggs died. Andrew's brother's and sister's were put into the care of Johann Paul Schultz (brother of Carl Ludovie Wilhelm Schultz) and Julie Schultz nee Briggs (sister of Hannah Briggs). For a time Andrew was known as Percival William Gibson.

Obituary - Mr. W. A. Schultz The death occurred in Bindawalla Hospital Wellington last week of Mr. William Andrews (Percy) Schultz, of Mumbil, a former resident of Leeton, at the age of 64 years. He had been in hospital in Sydney for some time, after which he resumed work at Burrendong Dam, but after a few days contracted pneumonia and was taken to hospital.

The late Mr. Schultz was an ex-servicemen of World War 1. And after his return was a soldier settler at Merungle Hill. He was an employee of W.C. and I.C. for 26 years and worked on an excavator on the M.I.A channels in the days when Mr. T. H. Dunn was the channel superintendent.

He survived by his widow and children, Vivian (Mrs. W. Knight of Nhill), Ray (Wellington), Joyce (Mrs. T. Hunt, Wagga), June (Mrs. B. Warren, Wellington), and Bill (Gilgandra). There are also a brother, Mr. Sid Schultz of Queensland and a sister, Mrs. Rowe of Leeton. He was predeceased by a sister, Mrs. Schubert, and a brother, Mr. Fred Schultz of Leeton.

The funeral moved from the Salvation Army Citadel to the Salvation Army portion of Wellington Cemetery.

(M.I, 25th April 1961)

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Chapter 8 - Louise Emilie (Amelia) Martha Schulz

Louise Emilie (Amelia) Martha Schulz was the eighth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. She was born 3rd October 1858 at Parrot Hill, S.A. She died on the 8th March 1879 (died aged 21 years, Wodonga Victoria).

Louise Emilie Martha, known as Amelia had one known child he was: Albert Schultz

Albert married Alice Amelia Ahma (Armour) in 1912 at Wagga. Alice Amelia Ahma (Armour was born (unknown). She was the daughter of John Ahma (Armour) & Eliza Paton. She died (unknown)

Their known children are: Malcolm & Grace Schultz


(Back row L to R) Maud Schultz nee Ahma, Frances Gam Ghee Ahma, George & Doris Ahma(Sitting) Lawrence Albert & (Bride) Alice Amelia (nee Ahma) Schultz

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Chapter 9 - Ernest Rudolf Schulz

Ernest Rudolf Schulz was the ninth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born on the 6th August 1860 at Parrot Hill, S.A. Ernest died on the 20 th

December 1860 at Parrot Hill South Australia, aged 18 weeks.

Chapter 10 - Martha Schulz

Martha Schulz was the tenth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. She was born circa 1861, and registered at Albury N.S.W. She married Christian Phefley on the 16th August 1880 (Albury). Martha died on the 11th November 1945 (N.S.W?).

Christian Phefley was born on the (unknown). He was the son of (unknown). He died on the (unknown).

Their known children are: Maud Victoria, Anna Christina, Ada Adelaide, Ethel, Arthur Richard, Frances Beatrice, Arthur Alexander, Sydney William, Harold Christie, Dorothy Ivy, Alma Martha, Gladys Millicent, Reg. Richard.

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Above photo is of: Louise Emilie Martha Phefley nee Schultz

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Chapter 11 - Julius Edward Schulz

Julius Edward Schulz was the eleventh child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born on the 16th November 1863 at Barnawartha. He married Maud Lilla Elant Ahma on the 4th December 1906 at Albury. He died on the 26 th August 1939 at Junee, N.S.W.

Maud Lilla Elant Ah ma was born on the 28th August 1887 at Gundagai N.S.W. She was the daughter of John Ah ma (was Chinese) & Eliza Paton. Maud died on the 20th September 1975.

Later anglicised spelling of Ah ma is “Armour”

Their known children are: Irene Maud & Sylvia Alice Schultz.

Birth Indexes - record a Julius Edward Shultz, Parents: John William Shultz & Juba An Clubstain, place of registration Barnawartha, year 1863, birth record number 18913, Victorian Indexes.

Obituary – The death of Edward Schultz aged 76 years, farmer, of “Glenlyn” four miles from Junee on the Gundagai road, occurred at 5. 30 am on Saturday. Mr Schultz, who had been ill on and off for the past two years, retired early the previous night and when his wife went to call him next day found him dead in bed. Born at Wodonga (Vic) where he went to school, he was a son of a pioneer family of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Schultz of that town. Thirty-six years ago he was farming at Downside near Wagga, and in 1904, removed to “Glenlyn” where he had farmed ever since. In his young days he and his brothers were noted for their strength. He is survived by a widow, who was a Miss Armour, of Wantiool, near Junee, two daughters, Mrs. T. Brandon (Irene), of Cox street Junee, and Mrs. W. Bond (Sylvia), of Old Junee. The funeral took place in the Anglican portion of the Junee cemetery on Sunday, after a short service at St. Luke’s Church

(The Daily Advertiser 28th August 1939)

Death notices – Maude Lilla Elant Schultz: On 29-9-75, at Hospital. Of “Springvale” Illabo Road Junee. Beloved wife of the late Edward Schultz and dearly loved mother of Irene (Mrs. Brandon, Junee), and Sylvia (Mrs. W. Bond, Junee), fond sister of Miss Dorothy Armour (Wantiool), Leila M. (Mrs. Haynon, Dundas), and Frank Melville, George and Alice, all deceased. At Rest Aged 88 years

(The Daily Advertiser Monday 22nd September 1975)

The relatives and friends of the late Maude Lilla Schultz of “Springvale” Illabo Road, Junee are respectfully informed that her funeral will take place tomorrow, Tuesday September 23, 1975. The Cortege will leave St. Luke’s Church, Junee after a service commencing at 2 p.m. for interment in the Junee Cemetery. Maurice R. Moroney A.F.D.A Funeral Directors Junee. Phone Junee 68

(The Daily Advertiser Monday 22nd September 1975)

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Above photo is of: Julius Edward Schultz & Maud Lilla Elant Schultz nee Ahma

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Chapter 12 - Charles (Carl) Alfred Schulz

Charles (Carl) Alfred Schulz was the twelfth child of Johann Wilhelm Schulz & Johanne Julianna Klopstein. He was born circa 1865 at Belvior Victoria. (Marriage details unknown, believed to have never married), Charles died on the 18th September 1944 at Junee, Victoria.

(It’s believed that Charles had 2 children to unknown)

Obituary – The death occurred at the Junee District Hospital of a well know resident of the Junee district, Mr Charles Alfred Schultz of Wantiool at the age of 78 years. He was born at Wodonga (V.) and he and two of his brothers the late Edward and Albert Schultz were known for their great physical strength.

Deceased had a dislike of railway travel and had not been in a train for over 50 years. In his young days he worked for Christopher Crawley, who then had very large farm and grazing lands at Junee. A bachelor, he was pre-deceased by three sisters and six brothers. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, the cortege moving to the Church of England portion of the Junee Cemetery after a service at St Luke’s Church, Junee, conducted by the Rev. H. Staples, who also officiated at the graveside. During the service in the Church the hymn, “Abide with Me” was sung Miss E. J. Ings presiding at the organ. Relatives and friends were present from Wantiool, Old Junee. Junee and the surrounding district, and many floral tributes were sent. While the casket was being carried from the church “The Dead March in Saul” was rendered by Miss Ings. The carriers were Messrs M. Schultz, G. W. Bond, T. Brandon (nephews) and R. Liebick. While the floral tray was carried by Messrs I. Phillips and J. J. Griffiths. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs Black and Pickles of Junee.

(The Daily Advertiser 20th September 1944)

Indexes – The following information was extracted from Victorian birth Indexes:

Charles Alfred Schiltz, Parents: John William Schiltz & Juliena Klopston. Birthplace Belvior. Victoria.Year 1865 certificate No. 20493.

The above looks like Charles Alfred Schultz birth record, misspelling was quite common then, especially if the person who registered the details was illiterate. The certificate will need to be purchased to verify it.

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