6 The Schossow Lineage Christoph Schossow m Elisabeth Hacken c 1750

The Schossow Family:

From previous notes:  The earliest known member of the family is Friedrich Schossow who was born in 1754 at Grabow, and died in 1833. When Friedrich married, and to whom, is not known although it is known that he was married twice. 

By searching the German transcripts is would appear that the parents were

Christoph Schossow and mother Elisabeth Hacken.

Their children were:

1.  Johann Christoph Schossow  b 1744  m  Anna Regina Hencken  They had at least 5 children:

            Johann Christian Friedrich Schossow  born 1789  d  24 April 1854 at Dorphagen

                m Albertine Wilhelmine Dorothea Sophie Bartelt 1836

2.  Christian Frederich Schossow  b  1753  m  Sophie Christine Elisabeth Ehlke   He died 3 April                                1832

3.  Carl Frederich Schossow  b  1754 m Regine Riechert   d   1833  She may have been the 2nd marriage and there may have been 2 other children, but none that can be proven with the Prussian records.

There were at least 4 children

  Friedrich Schossow  b 1796 who married Anna Brock  and died 184

  Johanne Frederich Schossow b 1801 who married Christine Sarow and died 1859

  Michael Frederich Schossow  b 1804  m Carolina Sabina Bublitz

  Sophia Henriette Schossow   b  1809

Three more sons were forthcoming from his second marriage. Friedrich was born in 1798, Johann in 1801, and Michael in 1803.  It is known that all of his children were born in Grabow, so it would appear that he lived there for his entire life, and most probably married Grabow women.      ..

The Prussian borders

Unfortunately the surviving records from Prussia are scant, but there are quite a few records for Schossow family in the Dorphagen area. They have been searched to confirm marriages

Very little is known of the lives of the Schossows beside the fact that they were farmers or tradesmen, and more likely saddlers and cobblers. The descendant line of interest is that of Johann who married Christine Sarow.  

They lived in the area known as at Pommern Germany, which is north west of Frankfurt and south of Bonn.  Many of the Schossow families emigrated to America, and often in the German records the name was Schosseow.

Grabow

 

Grabow Town Centre

Three children were born of Johann and Christine, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm on 30th November 1829,  Christine in 1832, and Friederike on 13th November 1834.  Carl’s death certificate shows that he was born in Streithoff, Pommern, Germany. 

Johann died 18 December 1859 in Dorphagen, Pommern, Prussia.  He married Christine Sarrow in 1828 in Dorphagen. 

There is no town known as Streithoff, but “hoff” means “comes from a place”  This old map indicates the various districts in Pommern..

Carl married Louise Wilhelmine Durow who was born on 19th of February 1834. They married at Bagemuhl, Uckermark, in 1860.

Bagemuhl area 

Dorphagen area 

On Carl’s death certificate, he is shown as being married at Bagemuhl, Brandenburg Germany at the age of thirty years Carl was described as a trade labourer. Quite possibly, Louise was also born in Streithoff because there is a note that Durow is a well known name in that village.   

Louise Wilhelmine Durow was born 1834, the daughter of David Durow and Dorothea Sophie Bootz 

Their last place of residence in Germany was Bagemuhl in the Uckermark.  Carl and Louise left Hamburg on the “Helene” on 4 April 1865, arriving in Moreton Bay on the 30th July 1865.  

The ships were held up in Moreton Bay subject to quarrantine regulations, and from the article it can be seen that some passengers on different ships had fevers.  


Passenger lists record them as:

Carl Schossow, aged 35 years
Louise Schossow, aged 31 years.

Wilhelm Schossow aged 3 years

Very recent information has revealed that only one Schossow family emigrated to Australia.  Several family members emigrated to the United States where there is apparently a larger decadency.

Of interest is a town in Germany called Schossow, which we were fortunate to visit. But there is very little to be found in Schossow!

Bagemuhl is a landmark close to the town of Grunberg, north east of Frankfurt.  Schossow is a town around 300 klms from Hamburg.

In fact it is probably as it was back in 1865, but considering the family lived in the North Eastern parts there must have been a settlement of Schossows there in early times, its meaning is Slavic.

But in the US in 2000 there were only 374 people named Schossow, with the most living in the North Dakota region!

 

The arrival of the German migrants to Queensland came about due to a petition from 206 freehold settlers from the Drayton and Toowoomba area, asking that more German colonists be brought out.
Mr J Heussler was appointed the immigration agents and he went to Germany to seek interested persons. 


Carl and Louise moved to Engelsburg (Kalbar) in the Fassifern Valley area. It is likely that they worked as labourers on the many farms owned by German families before securing their own land. 

Carl was naturalised at Ipswich on 28th January 1869. 

Three children were born in Australia: Albert in 1869, August Christian Friedrich on 24th November 1870, and Anna 3 February 1874.

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