3.1.4.a The Family of Johanna Muller who married Franz Dickfos Thanks to John Dickfos for sharing.

August and Wilhelmine Muller

This family history is written in memory of "August and Wilhelmine Muller, who migrated from Germany on the 8th November, 1870 on the ship "Humboldt."  They settled in Fassifern in June 1872.  Descendants gathered together at the Kalbar Showgrounds on 5th January 1984 to celebrate 114 years of settlement in Australia.  A "Thanksgiving Service" was held at the Kalbar Baptist Church on 6th January 1984.

Shirley Muller compiled "The Story of the Mullers" from Templin, Brandenburg, Germany, and these excerpts in the Muller story have been taken from that history.

Shirley relates"

"When I think of a reasons why I decided to write a history book, I guess it is because I thoroughly enjoy tracing ones family history, and above all to try and preserve our family history, in a form that our future generations can pick up this book and read of the trials and the many, many hardships that they had to bear.

Our forebears certainly did not have things easy.  Can you imagine the suffering, the bewilderment of leaving their homeland and coming to a strange land, where they knew no one.  Relatives and friends left behind, to wonder whatever would become of them.  How were they to cope with this new country.  I shall try and endeavour to show you in a very sketchy and amateurish way, just how they did manage to cope.

When I got to thinking, of just why did August and Wilhelmine want to leave their home in Germany and migrate to Australia, it became very intriguing.  The more I thought about it the more I wanted to find the answer.  I guess we will never really know as they are not here now to tell us why?  I am sure the political situation, and the fact that they could not openly practise their Christian beliefs, (religious persecution), must have played a very important part in making the final decision to come to Australia.  Then too, the agricultural situation was on the wane, and only half the workers were employed in agriculture by 1870.

The other half were industrial workers, and they had to work very long hours.  The prospect of owning their own land here was a big drawcard, as well.

What of their voyage out here? What a trip it must have been.  Can you imagine 111 days at sea?  Unfortunately, I could not find a single trace of a ships's log, or of any report of the "Hunboldt's" voyage from Hamburg to Cape Moreton, Brisbane.  What a pity that August did not write a diary, so the story of their voyage is left wide open to ones own imagination of the events that must have occurred such as sea-sickness, births and deaths!

The following story that you are about to read, is one thatt I have done my best at, in relating as true a picture as I could, with what help I could get from as many of the present family as was possible.  Should there be any discrepancies found in what I have attempted to put together, I very humbly apologise.  It would have been done out of ignorance rather than being deliberate or intentional.

There will be mistakes made, things left out that should have been included, and even may be incorrect dates and places printed,but I assure you all, that nothing "wrong" was deliberate.  I do trust that you will enjoy reading the book, as much as I have done in putting it all together.

....Compiled by Shirley Muller.

The "Humbold" left Hamburg on 16th July 1870, and arrived at Cape Moreton on 4th Novemer 1870.  The passengers disembarked on Tuesday 8th November.

When they arrived they were taken to "Nprmanby Reserve.  Here they continued to live until August had procured land at Obum Obum Road, Engelsburg and that he had built a home for his wife and young family.  Wilhelmine was expecting their second child on the voyage, and their second son was born 5 weeks after they arrived.  A third son was born 1872, which meant they were still living at Normanby Reserve.

The eldest was Hermann and then August (Junior)  the boys were among the first pupils to begin their education at the  "Fassifern Scrub" State School in 1879.

August Mullet (Senior) was born 13th August 1836 at Templin.  He married Wilhelmine Louise Auguste Boll on 8 November 1867 at Templin.

Their third son, Charles was born at Normanby Reserves, and by the time the fourth son Wilhelm was stillborn in 1874 they were living at Engelsburg.  Another son, Johan was born 1875, and Heinrich was born in 1877.  Another son Otto Ferdinand was born n 1879 and their eighth child was Gustave born in 1881.  Gustave was stillborn.  Then Joseph Benjamin was born in 1883, next came David born in 1885, and finally their daughter Wilhelmine (Mannin) was born 1866.

August died 29th January 1917 at his home, and is buried at Kalbar Baptist Church.  Wilhelmine died 10 August 1934 and is buried at the Kalbar general cemetery.

Hermann worked on his father's property and he married Marie Elizabeth Weber on 7th January 1892 at the Engelsburg Baptist Church.  They later moved to a property at Coulson, near the school.  He died 1957 and is buried Kalbar General Cemetery.

Martha and Oluf Hansen

They had three children

Louise Caroline born 1893   married Arthur Beutel      1922      

Martha born 1897 she married Oluf Thorval Hansen 1919 again in her parents home Brooklyn

John born 1900  he married Minnie Theresa Scholz 1923

August Muller  1870 - 1943

He married Anna Weber in 1894.  They had a family of 11 children.  She died suddenly aged 48 as a result of a poisoned foot, developing tetanus. She died 1919.

Wilhelm Muller 1896 - 1965   He married Annie Rieck in 1919.  They had 5 children  He was a keen fisherman, as well as gardener.  He is buried at Bundaberg

Charles Muller married Martha Korner.  They had 4 children  Charles died 1960 and is buried in Kalbar cemetery.

Heinrich Muller married Anna Lamprecht in 1898.  He purchased a farm at Obum Obum  They had 8 children.

Their eldest daughter Johanna Muller married He

rmann Franz Dickfos in 1924.  Hermann was from Tarome. The lived in Goomeri and had a dairy farm.  They lived in Bundaberg.  He died 1978 she died 1974.  They are buried in Bundaberg Lawn Cemetery

 

Otto Ferdinand Muller  1879 to 1974

He married Elizabeth Anna Weber 1899,  They also lived on a farm, and he became a poultry breeder.  They had 4 children.

Joseph Benjamin Muller 1883 - 1968  he married Sarah Rieck in 1904 at Engelsburg.  They had 6 children.  He is buried at the Kalbar Cemetery

David Muller 1885 to 1941.  He married Martha Wolter 1907 and they had 4 children.  He is buried at Kalbar Cemetery.

Wilhelmine youngest she married Carl (Charles) Wolter in 1910.  They had three children.  She died 1978.

 

The Muller Story is available in PDF, please send an email to jillett1800@gmail.com for a family copy.