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!

I started out writing about Bendigo and then got side tracked making this collage in Gimp.  I’ve cheated a bit in the younger generations because not everyone has had a son.  Left to right is James Wigley, Charles Robert Wigley, Richard Henry Wigley, Charles Thomas Hardy (changed his name), James Richard Hardy, Charles Richard Hardy, Michael Willison, Geoff Green and Douglas Willison.  Eight generations.

Anyway back to writing about Bendigo.  🙂

James Wigley moved his family from Burra in South Australia to Bendigo in Victoria in about 1853.  Charles Robert Wigley married in Burra and Richard Henry Wigley (pictured above) and his older brother William Henry were born in Burra.

James Wigley was a miner in Bendigo, Charles Robert Wigley an engine driver, and Richard Henry Wigley was a miner and later a mine manager.

Richard Henry Wigley, my great, great grandfather was in a mining accident in 1881.  This newspaper clipping contains quite a grissly account of the accident in which another miner, George Jenkin, was unfortunately  killed.

 

The Goldfields Research Centre in Bendigo is a terrific resource!!  The people there were extremely helpful too.  I spent many hours there and will be going back again in April next year.

• Scadden, William Henry (my great grandfather)
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It’s really hard to pick, but here are two of my many favourite Christms Carols. You may not have heard these before they aren’t very common.  I hope you enjoy them.

Christmas carols would have to be my most favourite music genre!  I have so many memories tied up with them.  Mum’s played our piano ever since I can remember.  I used to sit on the floor, next to her feet, with my ear pressed up against the piano, it was the best spot to be!  We had big family Christmas gatherings at our house, in Flaxley, (South Australia) when I was growing up.  All the aunties, uncles and cousins would come.  A barbie for lunch, Dad would mow a strip in the paddock for cricket in the afternoon and a good sing song around the piano later in the day.

Mum is an avid singer, belonging to several choirs over the years.  I loved going to concerts as a child and I still love them now.  This one, with the Mt Lofty Singers, was just the other day.

One of the ‘coming of age’ events that I looked forward to was being old enough to attend our local youth group.  Each year the youth group would pile onto the back of Mr Downing’s truck and travel around the countryside, and towns, stopping to sing carols for the people.  Some families would organise a party that night and invite their neighbours, the carol singing was the entertainment.  We travelled quite a way on those nights.  Starting in Flaxley (South Australia) we would go to Mt Barker and visit the Aged Care facilities, sometimes to Hahndorf Aged Care, back through Flaxley to Macclesfield and Greenhills stopping all along the way.  Though the numbers dwindled a bit in later years the enthusiasm never did, to me it was always the highlight of the year.  I’m not sure when the final one was held as I moved away from the area at the start of 1987.  It’s a real pity I don’t have any photos from those nights.

I’ve continued my love of Carol singing and playing my flute in church, at community gatherings and family ones too!

Yay, I got in to the 100th Carnival of Genealogy.  This is the first Carnival I’ve participated in.  The title of this Carnival is, “There’s One In Every Family”.  I submitted my post Diff’rent Names.

I might also try and remember to post on some of the popular genealogy blogging themes like Sentimental Sunday or Wordless Wednesday.  I’ll see how I go.  I also want to submit to other blog Carnivals too.