Random thoughts and observations
I discovered today that two of my great-great grandparents, Daniel Burgdorf and Augusta Springer, arrived in Sydney from Germany aboard the Reiherstieg on August 5, 1852.
That’s a story for another post, but for now I want to mention that aboard the ship with them was the scientist, magnetician, hydrographer, oceanographer and meteorologist Georg Balthasar von Neumayer.
This information about the Sutherland family came to me via Rex Sutherland. The notes were written by Leslie Archibald Sutherland (1911-97). I have edited them slightly to put them in my own family’s context. My great-great grandfather Daniel Sutherland migrated to Australia from Scotland in 1854. Together with his wife Mary (nee Ferguson) and their [...]
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