Buring Family Ancestors – A Brick Wall

 
Back row: (left to right) Adolph Heinrich Hermann, Minna Francesca and Ernst August. Middle row: Emil Ernst Paul, Mabel (wife of Hermann), Grandpapa Rudolph with Hermann’s son Franz Maurice on his knee, Lina Louisa Marie and Albert Gustav Adolph. Front row: Antoinette Hermine and Oscar Rudolph. This is copied from the back of the photograph.

Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring (Grandpa Buring in the photo) with all of his children except Anna Augusta Elisabeth Buring who joined the Sisters of St Joseph (Sister Mary Carolus) in 1897.  This is the only photo which I have of Lieschen, as she was called by the family.  Thanks to Sr Katrina of the Sisters of St Joseph for the photo.




I’m having difficulty tracing Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring’s forebears, as have other family researchers before me.  He came to South Australia with his parents Friedrich Adolph Buring and Caroline Henriette Auguste nee Jahn, and brothers, on the Princess Louise from Hamburg in 1849.  Friedrich was part of the Berlin Emigration Society, also known as the South Australian Colonisation Society.  His naturalisation papers state that he was a native of Berlin, Prussia. 


There is quite a bit of information, online and in books, about the Burings in Australia because of their contributions to South Australia and Australia as a whole.  Here is a quote from Di Cummings’ website Bound For South Australia which tells a little about the Berlin Emigration Society and the impact these people had on South Australia.

The story of the Princess Louise began in Berlin in the late 1840s, during a period of revolution. At that time, Europe, spurrred by the earlier French Revolution, was facing a period of change, revolt, and uprising. In Berlin, in 1848, Richard Schomburgk, a gardener who had established a reputation as a botantist, and his physician brother, Otto, saw that there was little hope of their dream of democracy being achieved and, by 1849, a period of repression began. … The brothers formed a migration group, calling it the Berlin Emigration Society (other references say: South Australian Colonisation Society), and made plans to leave the Fatherland for a new start in Australia. …
So, in March, 1849, the Society chartered the PRINCESS LOUISE and set sail for Adelaide with a new wave of refugees, arriving in Port Adelaide on 7 August 1849. The Society was largely comprised of professional men, businessmen and skilled artisans, and has been called “the single most important group of German intellectuals to come to Adelaide”.

This is a snippet from the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online regarding Heinrich Franz Rudolph’s brother Theodor Gustav Hermann Buring.

BURING, THEODOR GUSTAV HERMANN (1846?-1919), store-keeper and vigneron, was born in Berlin, son of Friedrich Adolph Buring and his wife Caroline Henriette Auguste. He arrived in South Australia with his parents in the Princess Louise from Hamburg in August 1849. In Adelaide his father set up a brass-founding business with Ernst Fischer but died on 3 December 1856 at 40. Hermann and his brother Heinrich Franz Rudolph, later a well-known Adelaide tobacconist, were educated at R. C. Mitton and J. C. Hansen’s school at Pulteney Street, Adelaide. Hermann, who early showed marked business ability, was then sent to the country where he worked as a store-keeper for nine years and for three in a distillery at Seppeltsfield in the Barossa valley. After his marriage to Lina Dohrenwendt on 22 April 1871 he opened a store in Friedrichswalde (Tarnma) near Kapunda. For nine years he was agent there for Spring Vale wines which from 1869 were managed by his brother-in-law Carl Sobels.

 If you have any ideas on how I might break through this brick wall and find birth records for Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring and his brothers Paul and Theodor Gustav Hermann Buring as well as their ancestors, please leave me a comment as I am keen to find out more about the fascinating Burings!

6 thoughts on “Buring Family Ancestors – A Brick Wall

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    • February 5, 2016 at 4:59 pm
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      Hullo – I am trying to locate a photograph of Adolph Wilhelm Rudolph (Rudi) Buring (1872-1950) – who was a Vice-President of the (Royal) SA Society of Arts 1928-49. older son of Theodor Gustav Hermann Buring (1846?−1919), wine-merchant and founder of Quellthaler (later Quelltaler) Wines. His grandfather, Friedrich Adolph Buring, and his wife Caroline Henriette Auguste, had emigrated in 1849 with their young son. Hermann’s brother, Heinrich Franz Rudolph, later a well-known Adelaide tobacconist, F. Armbruster & Uhlmann, and was President of the Commercial Travellers’ Association.
      We are preparing a history of the Society this year and would like to include a feature on Rudi – there is a lovely example of his art in the State Library we would like to include. If you can help with a photo it would be greatly appreciated.

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  • February 6, 2016 at 3:24 pm
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    Hi Adam
    Rudi Buring is my first cousin 3x removed. I’m descended from Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of Rudi but there is one in the State Library which you should be able to get permission to use. http://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+36689/7
    I’m very interested in the history of the society you’re preparing, what format will it be in, a book or articles for newsletter or website? If you have any other questions my email address is kira0030 at gmail.com
    Kind regards Kylie

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  • March 14, 2018 at 3:16 pm
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    Hi Kylie

    did you ever find a decent photo of Rudi ? We are also chasing one due to his links to the Gramp Family at Orlando and would appreciate any photo that you have to place in our records as he was supposedly like a mentor to Colin Gramp after his father Hugo Gramp was killed in 1938. We may have photos in our possession that you may not have as well but are trying to find them. Cheers Scott

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    • March 14, 2018 at 4:39 pm
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      Hi Scott
      Thanks for getting in touch. The only photo of Rudi is the one I linked to above which the State Library has. My email is kira0030 at gmail.com if you would like to contact me directly.
      Regards
      Kylie

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  • January 19, 2024 at 8:09 pm
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    hello, Kylie, i hope you and family are all well. I am sad to say I have lost whatever “being-in-touch” I ever had with any of my B~ cousins., incl. your mother & the other counsins. I spoke with a “lady” associated with the Unitarian church, Mt. Barker recently, the which “chat” was typically SMEARED with so much ignorant, farm-yard-verbiage, I couldn’t ring off fast enough. & Typcally, again, she’d already met Anne, which had set her scene..(! ! !).. -all those old memories, bitter emotions, wars, widows… etc. etc… I was interested o see your impressions re the “Brick=Wall” etc. re your research. I did some research a while ago, and “found” our Ancestor Henning B~, who, as Burgermeister in c. 1638, of Bremen, organised (=purchased) the coat-of-arms, of which the “last-owner” was my Uncle Franz. What happened finally to that is, an antique coat-of-arms, as I’d suspect, either Auntie Vida burned it, -typically, -or it was given to the Jesuits (At Norwood),… typically.. I checked with them, a couple of years back, and they say they “know nothing”…if you know anything about them … Aside from this, I have made my own conclusions regarding the “Origins-Of-The-NAME”… which are nothing short of “SENSATIONAL” -Hollywood-like = & I’ve not heard of any other similar theories. But, then, I’d not even expected any of the “centuries–depleted-stock” to come up with anything much of interest anyway… I’d like to catch up for a chat, if possible. MY ph is 0422.709.988. regards, ian b.

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