Anna Elisabeth (Weindenbach) Schilling (1867 - 1949)

Born 17 Apr 1867 in Nantawarra, South Australia, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Carl August Schilling — married 2 Mar 1886 in Cunliffe, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 20 Dec 1949 at age 82 in Narembeen, Western Australia, Australia

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Biography

Anna was born 18 years after her father arrived in Australia from Germany.

She is near the middle of 15 children born to Gustav and Marie Weidenbach in South Australia.

Anna married Carl Schilling in 1886 at the home of her parents at Cunliffe near Kadina, South Australia.

He farmed 700 acres at Tiparra but after a few poor years they decided to move to Broken Hill where Anna's brothers were earning good money.

The young couple with 3 children moved to Broken Hill in 1891, but after a strike by mine workers they left and began working at various jobs in South Australia eventually making enough to return to the farm which they named "Eldora Farm".

In 1920 they moved to Moonta where they had a small farm nearer to their children.

They went to Western Australia in 1927 to visit their sons who had begun farming there and they bought a property which various members of the family share farmed over the next few years.

By 1940, 9 of their children were living in Western Australia.

Anna and Carl celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1936.

Anna passed away in 1949 and is buried with Carl at Narembeen, Western Australia.

Anna is thought to be connected to the family of artist Weidenbach from Naumburg de Saale, Germany whose sons travelled with Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. They had studied and were the illustrators of his findings on his expedition in 1842 to Egypt. An exciting find in 2013 in the Adelaide museum of the diary of Maximillian Weidenbach from this time, was made when family members wanted to research his work for a family reunion.

Sources

• *Familytree Book, J. Gottfried Schilling, Persecution Peace Pioneering, 1833-1988
• Weidenbach family [1]
• The Advertiser 13 October 2013[2]

• Genealogy SA Database
• Marriage Registration 1886 146/822

https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Delisa Earl for starting this WikiTree profile through the import of Edwards_2008-07-18.ged on Feb 25, 2013.