Diary of Carl Leditschke and autobiographies of other family members

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CreatorLeditschke, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1861-1923Additional creatorLeditschke, Emilie Louise Pauline, 1859-1953Leditschke, Johan Carl, 1835-1915Title Diary of Carl Leditschke and autobiographies of other family membersDate1885, [date of production not identified]DescriptionCopies of transcripts of three items. The first is a diary of a journey from Steinau, Germany to Point Pass, South Australia, by Carl Leditschke, 2 May - 28 June 1885, including his trip out on board the 'Teal' and 'Liguria'. (Leditschke took the steamer Teal from Hamburg to London, and then the Liguria from London to Adelaide.) He later married his widowed cousin, Emilie Louise Pauline Jansen nee Leditschke. Her reminscences are item 2, and describe coming out as a child with her parents and her Wurst grandparents on board the 'Peter Godefroi' from Hamburg in 1859. She talks a lot about pioneering life at Point Pass in the 1860s. Item 3 is a short autobiography of her father Johann Carl Friedrich Leditschke.History/biographyCarl Friedrich Wilhelm Leditschke was born 30 May 1861 at Pronzendorf, Silesia. He arrived in South Australia in 1885 aboard the 'Liguria' and went on to become a storekeeper at Point Pass. He married Mrs Louise Pauline Emilie Jansen nee Leditschke on 5 May 1886, died 21 May 1923 at Kingswood SA, and was buried at Point Pass, SA.

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SubjectTeal (Ship)Liguria (Ship)Germans -- South Australia

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Diary of Carl Leditschke and autobiographies of other family members