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Statement by Ernestine Schneider

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Date: About 1935 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Schneider Fiebig Fritsch
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The following is a transcription of statement by Ernstine (Schneider) Fritsch (1863-1942), originally written in an exercise book sometime in the 1930s. Current location of this book is unknown.

This statement is included in a three page typed document in possession of Lauren Thomson in 2022. This document was compiled by Ernestine's DAUGHTER Emma Ernestina Fritsch (1896-1981) in 1968 (most recent death date in the document).

I, Ernstine Fritsch (nee Schneider) was born at Penshurst near Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, on 8th September 1863.
My father Johann Caspar Schneider, was born in Siliicia, Germany on 11th May 1811. He died at Penshurst on 2nd June 1873[1]. I was about 9 years old at that time.
Father landed in Portland, Vic. in the year 1849. His first wife died at sea with cholera, leaving her husband and a little daughter of about four years to mourn their loss. The daughter's name was Anna Rosina.
My mother was also born in Silicia, Germany in the year 1826. She was the third daughter of Mrs Fiebich[2] who came to Australia in the year 1848. Her husband died at Hamburg of cholera just before the ship left for Australia with his wife and five daughters. He had meant to follow them out on the next ship.
Mrs Fiebich and daughters landed at Melbourne in 1848. My mother, Maria Rosina Fiebich, was married to Mr Kuttig about 1849[3]. He died about a year after their marriage, as also did their infant son Robert.
In 1853, my mother got married again to Johann Caspar Schneider a widower. They lived in Penshurst where they owned a few acres of land. He died on 2nd June, 1873[1].
It was there at (Penshurst) that I was born the sixth child of the family and there I received my schooling at Spring Creek. In the year of 1877 on 11th November I was confirmed in the Lutheran Church, Murtoa, by Pastor G Hiller. In 1879 my mother and her two sons and four daughters shifted to Ni Ni, approx 20 miles from Dimboola. Here my mother died on 4th November 1906.
On 6th September 1882 I married Edward Fritsch.
Edward Fritsch was born at Warrnambool on 16th November 1854. We were married by Pastor G.D. Hamper in the Lutheran Church at Ni Ni. We went to live at Winiam where my husband had a block of land (about 7 miles from Nhill),
We lived at Winiam from 1882 til February 1909. We then moved to Temora, NSW and lived at "Kilowan", 20 miles north of Temora, for about two years.
Then we shifted to "Woolshed Farm", near Narraburra and ten miles from Temora.
In February 1930 we reitred into Temora and named our home in Vesper Street "Winiam".
Our children were all born at Wiiniam, near Nhill, Victoria except our youngest son Arthur, who was born in a private hospital in Nhill.
My husband, Edward Fritsch, was born on 26th November, 1854 at Warrnambool in Victoria. His father was Friedrich Fritsch. His wife, Dorothea Uebergang, also came to Australia from Germany in 1848, the same year as her husband.
They were married at Warrnambool.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Research shows this date to be 30 June 1873. Is this a typo? - but mentioned twice in document as being June 2. A transcription of the burial register for Gnadenthal says died 30 June, buried 2 July. And the probate documents also say died 30 June.
  2. Should be FIEBIG
  3. Actually 18 March 1850 per church register




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