Johann August
(August)
Altus
Born in Rodewitz, Hochkirch, Löbau, Bautzen, Königreich Sachsen, Deutscher Bund
Son of Johann Gottlieb Altus
and Agneta (Pilak) Altus
Brother of
Johann Altus, Maria Magdalena (Altus) Biele, Anna (Altus) Weiss, Anna Christiane (Altus) Peltz and Maria (Altus) Lieschke
Husband of
Anna Maria (Doecke) Altus
— married
5 Jan 1865 in Neukirch Lutheran Church, South Australia
Descendants 
Father of
August Hermann Altus, August Ernst Altus, Maria Bertha (Altus) Fuhlbohm, Johann August Altus and Johann Traugott Altus
Died
at age 64
in Steinthal, South Australia, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 22 May 2017
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Biography
Johann August Altus was the youngest child of Johann Gottlieb and Agneta Altus (Nee Pilak).
He emigrated from Saxony with his family in 1858.
He was part of a family group that travelled on the Alfred which sailed from Hamburg in 1857 and arrived at Port Adelaide on 13 February 1858. It consisted of his widowed mother (Agneta), his older brother Johann, sister-in-law Anna and their five children, sister Maria Magdalene and brother-in-law Johann Biele, and two more older sisters Christiane and Maria.[1] It arrived at Port Adelaide on 13 February 1858.[2][3]
The family settled on farming land at Bethel, South Australia. August's Section 331, Hundred of Light, was purchased on 25 August 1856, seventeen months before the family arrived in South Australia.[4]
August married Anna Maria Doecke on 3 January 1865 at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Neukirch (now part of Ebenezer in the northern Barossa Valley). He was aged 23 and she was 18.[5]
They had ten children:[6]
- August Hermann Altus
- August Ernst Altus
- Bertha Maria (Fuhlbohm) Altus
- Johann August Altus
- Johann Traugott Altus
- Anna Maria (Leditschke) Altus
- Lydia Martha (Lange) Altus
- Anna Emilie Altus
- Heinrich Ernst Altus
- Gustav Adolph Altus
Johann August died at Bethel on 28 July 1904.[7] He was buried at the Steinthal Cemetery.[8][9]
Sources
- ↑ Hamburg passenger lists, Ancestry.com
- ↑ The Ships List
- ↑ Freedom Found, pages 54-55
- ↑ Freedom Found, page 469
- ↑ ALTUS, August, South Australian Marriage Registration Index, district Angaston, Vol 60 p 260 accessed 16 July 2022 via Genealogy SA
- ↑ Freedom Found, p.468
- ↑ Australia Death Index, Ancestry.com, vol 303 page 374
- ↑ Freedom Found, Pages 487-490
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202815479/johann-august-altus: accessed 02 August 2023), memorial page for Johann August Altus (3 Nov 1839–28 Jul 1904), Find a Grave Memorial ID 202815479, citing Bethel Steinthal Lutheran Cemetery, Stockport, District Council of Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia, Australia; Maintained by Faithe Jones (contributor 50048377).
- Freedom Found: A History of the Altus Family in Australia, P. H. Colliver, 1982, ISBN 0 9592754 0 1
- The Doecke Family Reunion Committee. Saxony to South Australia, the Doecke Story. 1979. ISBN 0 9595377 0 8
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Scott Davis
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Altus-15 and Altus-11 appear to represent the same person because: These profiles are for the same person - same birth and death dates, one traced up the family tree, and the other traced across and down the tree from the same reference book (Freedom Found).
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