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    Old Uckermark with modern border shown in pink

    The Schulz Family

    (sometimes spelt Schulze, Schultz or Schultze)

    The Schulz family hailed from a place called Menkin in the far north-east of Brandenburg. Menkin is in fact the Uckermark's most north-easterly village. Five kilometers away is Brüssow, Uckermark's most northern city which is also the capital of the Brüssow region and where most records were kept.

    Menkin began its current history around 1200 as a farming village (Bauerndorf) with a church built out of fieldstones (Feldsteine) which were left over from the ice age. This early settlement was part of the colonisation of the previously Slavic inhabited lands, which had since been abandoned. The 13th century church with a 'modernised' 16th and 17th century interior is still functioning.
    Greetings from Menkin
    (clockwise: main street, smithy, lake, park)
    On the northern edge of Menkin is a border marker between Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern known as the "Schlitterstein". It's a huge block of stone 6.2 meters long, 4.7 meters wide and 2.5 meters high moved there presumably by glacial activity during the ice age.
    Main Estate House (Gutshaus Menkin), rebuilt about 1740


    The early days of Menkin were very different from what has been left over from the destruction which followed after the second world war. The village had a well developed infrastructure, including parklands, as well as many amenities, working farms and businesses.

    Mention should be made that the Estate of Menkin came into the possession of the von Winterfeldt family in 1623, when Adam von Winterfeldt (1594-1640) bought it lock stock and barrel. The very last family member holding the estate was Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin (1865-1945), who owned it until 1945, when at the age of 80, the property was seized from him and burnt to the ground by the Russian Army. Joachim died during his attempt to flee. During his lifetime, Joachim had brought together the various Red Cross groups scattered across the country, into one unified organisation for which he was the first president.

    Statistics for Menkin, 1805
    from F.W.A. Bratring's Description of the Whole of Mark Brandenburg Vol.2 (Beschreibung der gesammten Mark Brandenburg Vol.2)

    Name
    Type
    Condition
    Hearths
    People
    Land
    Owner
    Church admin.
    Address
    Menkin
    Village and
    Estate
    12 Farmers (Ganzbauern), 2 Cottagers (Büdner), 18 Workers (Einlieger), 1 Fisher (Fischer), Smithy (Schmiede), Guesthouse (Krug), Water-driven Flour- and Saw-mill (Wasser, Mahl und Schneidermühle), 1 Forester for over 250 meter of wood (Förster über 250 M. Holz)
    28
    227
    ~480
    Hectare
    Local Superviser, von Winterfeld, Berlin
    Brüssow, Prenzlau
    Brüssow

    Hamburg Harbour in the nineteenth century

    Map of the Area Surrounding Menkin
    Menkin and Wollschow are less than 1km apart
    and both are less than 5km from Brüssow.
    To the right of Menkin is Lake Menkin (Menkiner See).
    On the far right is the River Randow
    At the top is Bergholz where Carl Kuss worked as head-miller.

    1865 August 5 - Hamburg Departure of the La Rochelle with the eldest sister, Caroline Schulz, her husband Carl Kuss and their two sons, Adolph and Carl. Tragically, baby Carl died on the voyage.

    Migration in Steps


    Getting back to our Schulz family – they migrated to Australia in three stages. It was the children of Wilhelm Ludwig Schulz and his wife Christine Procase who first took those intrepid steps to migrate to new land.

    Step 1 - 1865
    Firstly, the eldest daughter, Caroline who was married in Menkin in 1863 to the Head-Miller from the nearby village of Bergholz, Carl Kuss, departed Hamburg with her small family, on board the La Rochelle in 1865 heading for Moreton Bay.

    On the day Caroline and Carl's application for migration was accepted, Caroline's next younger sibling, Friedrich Wilhelm, had his application also accepted. At that time, he was single and had obviously intended to migrate with them, but he didn't.

    Instead, Friedrich got married a few months later in Prenzlau to Hanna Marie Adolphine Müller who was born in Mildenitz, about 180 km north-west of Prenzlau. Hanna already had an illegitimate, one year old child, later acknowledged by Friedrich. They then had another two children but the first of those died when only 2 months old. In 1870, the family successfully applied to migrate to North America but no further trace of them has been found.

    Step 2 - 1871
    In 1871, a second group from the family left on board the Herschel. This section of the family consisted of the next younger daughter, Wilhelmine, with her husband, August Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmermann, whom she had married in 1869, along with their daughter, as well as the two youngest sisters of the Schulz family, Friederike and Ernestine, the latter of which having eventually become our great-great-grandmother.

    Step 3 - 1873
    Two years later, the parents, Wilhelm and Christine along with their son, Wilhelm Friedrich August Schulz, and his wife, Wilhelmine Friederike Schulz (daughter of Gottfried Schulz) together with their two daughters also migrated, this time departing from Hamburg on board the Reichstag.

    1865 May 11 - Permission to Migrate (Kuss was spelt incorrectly)

    1865 May 11 - Permission to migrate to Australia

    1870 May 4 - Permission to migrate to North America

    1871 December 1 - Hamburg Departure of the Herschel with three more of the Schulz sisters, Friederike, Ernestine and Wilhelmine with her husband Ernst Zimmermann and baby daughter Ernestine.

    1872 April 14 - Arrival of the Herschel in Hervey Bay

    1873 April 14 - Hamburg Departure of the Reichstag with some more of the Schulz family: parents Wilhelm and Christine (both 57), their son Wilhelm (25), his wife Wilhelmine (27) and their two daughters, Bertha (5) and Ulrike (3) both of whom tragically died during the voyage.

    1873 July 18 - Arrival of the Reichstag in Maryborough (only the adults survived the voyage)

    Life in the New Land
    Shortly after their arrival, the various members of the Schulz family took up land. The eldest daughter, Caroline and her husband Carl Kuss had arrived first and settled at Marburg. Less than two months after Friederike Christine arrived, she married Victor Francis Pfeffer who lived next door to Henry Schneider senior at Engelsburg. Ernestine followed suit and four months later, married William Pieper who owned land in Vernor. The rest of the members of the Schulz family settled not far from Vernor and Lowood.

    Family Lands in The Parishes of Tarampa and North

    Lowood is at the far left and Fernvale is at the top right. The Brisbane River runs along the north-western boundary of the district of Vernor, shown with a green outline

    » Red outlines indicate locations of various family members:- (from left) Michael Feldhahn (second husband of Ernestine Schulz/Pieper), Ernst Zimmermann and Wilhelmine Schulz (Ernestine's brother-in-law and sister), adjoining Wilhelm Schulz (more likely to be the son than the father), Fred Adermann, Jacob Imhoff, Johann Stümer (whose daughter Marie married Hermann Pieper), Wilhelm Pieper (pink area), William Schroeder (whose daughter Auguste married Adolph Pieper), Fred Riek (father of Wilhelmine Riek who married Friedrich Suchting), 3 lots of August Muckert (whose grandson Percy married Eva Pieper)
    » Green areas show the 50 acre blocks of Wilhelm Schulz and Ernest Zimmermann (husband of Wilhelmine Christine Schulz)
    » Pink areas show Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz and Wilhelm Pieper's initial 40 acres at Vernor and later addition.

    Wilhelm Ludwig Schulz
    and Christine Procase


    15 May 1837 Marriage in Menkin of Wilhelm Ludwig Schulz and Christine Procase

    No. 1
    Schulz, Wilhelm Ludwig, Builder in Brüssow, 21 years old,
    son of Johann Schulz, Mason in Brüssow
    Procase, Christine, daughter of Johann Procase, of Menkin, 21 years old,

    The Church in Menkin

    1872 Death in Brüssow, of Johann Schulz, Builder (Maurer), aged 82, left 1 son 1 daughter, died Oct 3 at 11:00 at night of old age

    As can be seen on the marriage record, the father of Wilhelm Ludwig Schulz was Johann Schulz, a builder (Maurer) in Brüssow. The first wife of Johann Schulz (1790-1872) and therefore the mother of Wilhelm, was Justine Dickholz (1777-1849). A year after Justine's death, Johann, at the age of 59 remarried. His new wife was Esther Gombert (1798-1859), the widow of Christian Friedrich Zahnow (1790-1849). Wilhelm had a younger sister, Friederike Wilhelmine Justine (1823-) who married Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Beskow in 1851. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters.

    The parents of Wilhelm's mother, Christine Procase, were Johann Procase (1784-1852) and Sophie Buhz (1790-1847), who were married in Menkin, the village where they were born. Christine had six younger siblings, Christoph Friedrich (1817-1892), Marie Dorothee (1820-1849), Friederike Caroline (1822-), Dorothee Sophie (1825-) and Louise (1827-) and Christian Friedrich (1831-).

    Christoph Friedrich Procasi (1817-1892) migrated to USA on 31.05.1868 with his first wife, Louise Kobbert (1819-1869) and son, Wilhelm Friedrich (1850-1893). He married his second wife was Ernestine Hippe (1821-) in Cuyaoga on 17.02.1860. His third wife was called Sophia.
    » Wilhelm Ludwig Schulz (18.09.1815 – 09.10.1902)
       married Christine Procase (19.07.1815 – 19.03.1896)
       in Menkin, Brüssow, 15.05.1837
       and they had the following children:

    Wilhelmine Christine Schulz 02.11.1837 –
    *Menkin    		 30.05.1838
    †Menkin    		 (6 months old)
    Caroline Friederike Christine Schulz 04.07.1839 –
    *Menkin    		 08.09.1911
    †Marburg    		 m. Carl Christian Friedrich Kuss in Menkin, 08.02.1863
    Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz
    Builder (Maurer)    		 21.02.1842 –
    *Menkin    		 unknown
    †unknown    		 m. Hanna Marie Adolphine Müller in Prenzlau, 22.10.1865 (the family could have migrated to North America, with permission granted 04.05.1870)
    Wilhelmine Christine Schulz 30.01.1845 –
    *Menkin    		 04.12.1912
    †Kalbar    		 m. August Friedrich Wilhelm (Ernest) Zimmermann in Menkin, 15.11.1868
    Wilhelm Friedrich August Schulz 29.07.1848 –
    *Menkin    		 07.09.1920
    †Lowood    		 m. Friederike Wilhelmine Schulz (daughter of Gottfried Schulz and Marie Dorothee Schönwald) in Wollschow, 27.09.1868
    Friederike Christine Schulz 08.02.1851 –
    *Menkin    		 23.11.1922
    †Boonah    		 m. Victor Francis Pfeffer in Kalbar, 05.06.1872
    Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz 21.07.1853 –
    *Menkin    		 10.08.1916
    †Vernor    		 m. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pieper in Ipswich, 14.10.1872
    m. Michael Friedrich Feldhahn in Qld, 06.07.1903
    1837 Birth of Wilhelmine Christine Schulz
    1838 Death of Wilhelmine Christine Schulz
    1837 Birth of Caroline Friederike Christine Schulz
    1842 Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz
    1845 Birth of Wilhelmine Christine Schulz
    1848 Birth of Wilhelm August Schulz
    1851 Birth of Friederike Christine Schulz
    1853 Birth of Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz

    Wilhelmine Christine Schulz
    m. August Friedrich Wilhelm (Ernst) Zimmermann

    Wilhelm Friedrich August Schulz
    m. Wilhelmine Friederike Schulz (daughter of Gottfried Schulz)

    Friederike Christine Schulz
    m. Victor Francis Pfeffer

    Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz
    m. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pieper
    m. Michael Friedrich Feldhahn

    Caroline Friederike Christine Schulz
    and Carl Christian Friedrich Kuss


    1863 Marriage of Caroline Friederike Christine Schulz and Carl Christian Friedrich Kuss

    » Caroline Friederike Christine Schulz (04.07.1839 – 08.09.1911)
       married Carl Christian Friedrich Kuss (10.07.1831 – 15.08.1890)
       in Menkin, 08.02.1863
       and they had the following children:

    Adolph Friedrich Wilhelm Kuss 15.02.1863 –
    *Menkin    		 07.11.1924
    †Marburg    		 m. Emilie Friedericke Auguste Schubel in Marburg, 23.05.1884
    Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Kuss 29.10.1864 –
    *Menkin    		 09.09.1865
    †At Sea    		 (less than one year old)
    Carl Frederick Adolph Kuss 13.04.1866 –
    *Zillman's
    Waterhole    		 14.11.1885
    †Marburg    		 (19 years old)
    Carolina Wilhelmina Kuss 23.09.1868 –
    *Brisbane    		 16.03.1945
    †Brisbane    		 m. Bernhardt Meissner in Qld, 29.05.1891
    m. James Nealon in Brisbane, 16.07.1932
    Wilhelmina Ernestine Kuss 31.01.1871 –
    *Zillman's
    Waterhole    		 24.04.1903
    †Marburg    		 m. Wilhelm Carl August Rohl, 21.02.1889
    Augusta Maria Kuss 26.11.1873 –
    *Rosewood    		 14.07.1953
    †Surfers
    Paradise    		 m. Carl Hohnke in Marburg, 09.06.1892
    Albert John Kuss 10.08.1875 –
    *Walloon    		 17.03.1955
    †Qld    		 m. Martha Schneider in Teviotville, 30.04.1896
    Julia Ann Kuss 04.12.1876 –
    *Walloon    		 29.01.1946
    †unknown    		 m. Julius Ernst Heinrich Topp in Qld, 09.01.1901
    Anna Louise Kuss 19.03.1880 –
    *Rosewood    		 01.07.1964
    †Brisbane    		 m. August Friedrich Zimmermann, 04.02.1899

    Adolph Friedrich Wilhelm and Emilie Friedericke Auguste (nee Schubel) Kuss

    Wilhelm Carl August and Wilhelmine Ernestine (nee Kuss) Rohl

    Albert John and Martha (nee Schneider) Kuss

    August and Anna (nee Kuss) Zimmermann

    Julius and Julia (nee Kuss) Topp

    Wilhelmine Christine Schulz
    and August Friedrich Wilhelm (Ernest) Zimmermann

    Ernest and Wilhelmine (nee Schulz) Zimmermann

    Wilhelmine (nee Schulz) and Ernest Zimmermann

    Ernest Zimmermann


    » Wilhelmine Christine Schulz (30.01.1845 – 04.12.1912)
       married August Friedrich Wilhelm (Ernst) Zimmermann (13.05.1841 – 24.02.1928)
       in Wollschow, 15.11.1868
       and they had the following children:

    August Wilhelm Schulz
    (unknown father)    		 25.01.1865 –
    *Menkin    		 25.03.1867
    †Menkin    		 (2 years old)
    Auguste Friederike Zimmermann 22.05.1869 –
    *Menkin    		 25.04.1871
    †Wollschow    		 (almost 2 years old)
    Anna Ernstine Zimmermann 22.03.1871 –
    *Qld    		 15.10.1919
    †Kalbar    		 m. Charles John Weber in Qld, 08.05.1890
    George Wilhelm Zimmermann 27.01.1874 –
    *Boy Creek    		 29.11.1950
    †Kalbar    		 m. Marie Helena Mollenhauer in Engelsburg, 16.04.1895
    August Friedrich Zimmermann 08.12.1875 –
    *Tarampa    		 28.05.1953
    †Qld    		 m. Anna Louise Kuss, 04.02.1899
    Auguste Wilhelmine Zimmermann 17.04.1878 –
    *Tarampa    		 08.03.1950
    †Ipswich    		 m. Wilhelm August Heit in Qld, 13.01.1896
    m. Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Krueger in Qld, 12.07.1905
    Ida Marie Zimmermann 27.02.1881 –
    *Lowood    		 22.05.1936
    †Ipswich    		 m. John Charles Kuhz in Qld, 28.08.1901
    Wilhelm Zimmermann 05.05.1882 –
    *Brisbane    		 04.06.1883
    †Qld    		 (1 year old)
    Wilhelmina Zimmermann 22.04.1884 –
    *Brisbane    		 12.07.1884
    †Vernor    		 (2 months old)
    Amanda Zimmermann 19.09.1886 –
    *Lowood    		 04.09.1959
    †Ipswich    		 m. Rudolph Gustav Heit in Qld, 17.07.1907

    Wilhelmine and Wilhelm Schulz

    Wilhelm Friedrich August Schulz
    and Friederike Wilhelmine Schulz


    » Wilhelm Friedrich August Schulz (29.07.1848 – 07.09.1920)
       married Friederike Wilhelmine Schulz (27.11.1845 – 21.03.1919)
       in Wollschow, 27.09.1868
       and they had the following children:

    Bertha Friederike Ernestine Schulz 27.11.1867 –
    *Wollschow    		 09.07.1873
    †at sea    		 (4 or 5 years old)
    Ulrike Auguste Wilhelmine Schulz 10.02.1870 –
    *Wollschow    		 29.06.1873
    †at sea    		 (3 years old)
    unnamed male Schulz 20.02.1873 –
    *Menkin    		 20.02.1873
    †Menkin    		 (stillborn)
    Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz 25.08.1874 –
    *Lowood    		 28.12.1949
    †Tarampa    		 m. Emma Anna Schealler in Qld, 07.05.1895
    Bertha Wilhelmine Schulz 01.05.1876 –
    *Lowood    		 14.08.1959
    †Qld    		 m. Julius Schubel in Qld, 30.11.1895
    Wilhelm Friedrich Schulz 30.03.1878 –
    *Lowood    		 26.01.1949
    †Lowood    		 m. Susanna Emily Litzow in Qld, 27.04.1899
    Auguste Ulrike Schulz 05.08.1880 –
    *Qld    		 04.08.1924
    †Lowood    		 m. Carl Frederich Wilhelm Profke in Ipswich, 23.07.1898
    Johanna Helene Schulz
    (Hannah)    		 13.07.1882 –
    *Qld    		 19.01.1942
    †Qld    		 m. Heinrich William Schealler in Qld, 09.05.1901
    Albert August Schulz 14.09.1883 –
    *Qld    		 06.12.1883
    †Qld    		 (2 months old)
    Adolph Schulz 04.05.1886 –
    *Qld    		 04.05.1886
    †Qld    		 (less than 1 day old)
    Albert Adolph Schulz 31.12.1890 –
    *Qld    		 05.03.1891
    †Qld    		 (2 months old)

    Friederike Christine (nee Schulz) and Victor Francis Pfeffer

    Friederike Christine Schulz
    and Victor Francis Pfeffer


    » Friederike Christine Schulz (08.02.1851 – 23.11.1922)
       married Victor Francis Pfeffer (18.12.1841 – 16.06.1922)
       in Haigslea, Boonah, 05.06.1872
       and they had the following children:

    Francis Albert Pfeffer 10.09.1873 –
    *Haigslea    		 28.12.1958
    †Boonah    		 m. Martha Emilie Heit in Obum Obum, 26.11.1896
    Johanna Pfeffer 24.02.1876 –
    *Haigslea    		 24.03.1954
    †Kalbar    		 m. August Christian Friedrich Schossow in Qld, 10.10.1895
    Frederick Pfeffer 23.06.1877 –
    *Kirchheim
    (Haigslea)    		 25.01.1936
    †Charlwood    		 m. Auguste Dorothea Richter in Ipswich, 26.04.1899
    Francis Victor Pfeffer 12.08.1879 –
    *Kulgun    		 05.06.1952
    †Wynnum    		 m. Emilie Louisa Krueger in Charlwood, 20.02.1901
    Gustav Pfeffer 08.03.1882 –
    *Kulgun    		 11.11.1945
    †Qld    		 m. Katherine Krueger in Charlwood, 24.02.1906
    Magdalena Pfeffer 04.03.1884 –
    *Qld    		 17.07.1958
    †Ipswich    		 m. Friedrich Wilhelm Dieckmann in Kulgun, 28.09.1904
    Mary Pfeffer 25.09.1886 –
    *Kulgun    		 17.12.1962
    †Qld    		 m. Carl Sinn in Kulgun, 23.03.1910
    Otto Pfeffer 10.11.1888 –
    *Kalbar    		 29.06.1972
    †Qld    		 m. Hulda Ellen Huth in Teviotville, 16.11.1910
    m. Gertrude Florence Cox in Qld, 06.09.1916
    m. Margaret Sievers in Qld, 14.12.1922
    Ellen Pfeffer 26.12.1890 –
    *Qld    		 14.04.1980
    †Qld    		 m. August Herman Freiberg in Kulgun, 26.09.1912
    William Pfeffer 22.07.1893 –
    *Kulgun    		 06.06.1961
    †Redcliffe    		 m. Adelaide Alvena Pieper in Ipswich, 04.09.1915

    William Pieper and Ernestine Schulz

    Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz
    and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pieper
    (and Michael Friedrich Feldhahn)


    » Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz (21.07.1853 – 10.08.1916)
       married Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pieper (30.01.1826 – 01.12.1896)
       in Ipswich, 14.10.1872
       and they had the following children:

    Francis Pieper 07.07.1873 –
    *Qld    		 21.04.1878
    †Qld    		 (4 years old)
    Rudolph Pieper 11.08.1875 –
    *Qld    		 04.10.1945
    †Esk    		 m. Anna Suchting in Qld, 13.03.1895
    Ludwig Franz Pieper 01.10.1879 –
    *Qld    		 18.03.1882
    †Qld    		 (2 years old)
    Adolph Pieper 10.12.1882 –
    *Qld    		 26.02.1953
    †Vernor    		 m. Auguste Schroder in Qld, 28.09.1903
    » Ernestine Wilhelmine Schulz (21.07.1853 – 10.08.1916)
       married Michael Friedrich Feldhahn (31.12.1839 – 13.01.1918)
       in Qld, 06.07.1903
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