Buring Family

Google For The Wise Genealogist

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I’m currently studying Google For The Wise Genealogist with the National Institute For Genealogical Studies.

Genealogical research is a satisfying pastime for the family historian and a rewarding occupation for the professional genealogist. To support the needs of both amateur family historians and aspiring professional genealogists for reliable and comprehensive education we have designed a series of courses (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Electives) leading to various Certificates in Genealogical Studies with specialization in various countries.

The National Institute for Genealogical Studies in affiliation with the Continuing Education, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto provides web-based courses for both family historians and professional genealogists.

This week’s module is on Google Maps and Panoramio.  This is a map I created, for my assignment, which shows the possible route my Buring ancestors took when they went from Berlin, Germany to Adelaide, South Australia.  I know that the ship, the Princess Louise stopped at Rio de Janeiro on the way to Adelaide.


View Berlin To Adelaide in a larger map

I never knew before that you could embed a Google map in a blog or website. Yay, I love maps, so you can expect to see a lot more maps in my blog.

Albert Gustav Adolph Buring

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Albert Gustav Adolph Buring was my great, great uncle.  Affectionately known by me as AGA he is one of my favourite ancestors.  I have nothing firm to base this bias on except that he was a teacher and I love to teach and have a great respect for teachers and there are lots of records of his life and work so it has been relatively easy to piece together his whereabouts and his jobs.

I had just been talking about him with Pauleen from Family History Across The Seas as she also has a favourite ancestor whose name she has abbreviated to WEH.

Albert Gustav Adolph Buring

This is the earliest photo I have of AGA, it’s from a larger family photo, I’m not sure when it was taken.

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Albert Gustav Adolph Buring in 1931

I found this photo today in an article in the Cyclopedia of Tasmania, on findmypast.com.au,  about Princes Street State School of which AGA was the Head Master in 1931.  I’m unsure as to how long he was Head Master for there.

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Princes Street State School Hobart, Tasmania

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I’m putting all the details from this article and the other information I’ve gathered on his profile page of my family tree – Albert Gustav Adolph Buring.

I like the layout of findmypast.com.au and being a smaller record set, of just Australian records, I don’t have to trawl through a heap of irrelevant results before I find what I’m looking for.  They have very interesting records too;

  • post office and trades directories
  • armed forces and conflicts
  • churches and religion
  • education and work
  • institutions and organisations
  • newspapers, directories and social histories
  • census, land and surveys
  • life events
  • travel and migration

I have a subscription so if you would like me to look something up for you please let me know.

Solving A Mystery

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My German ancestors the Burings came to South Australia on the Princess Louise in 1849. On various passenger lists are Friedrich Adolph & Caroline Buring and their three children. On the passenger list from the South Australian Maritime Museum a G. Buring is also listed.

Passenger List for the Princess Louise

Gustav Buring in Adelaide in October 1850, The South Australian

Last weekend I was looking through the National Archives, with my cousin, for another Buring and came across naturalisation papers for a Gustav Buring. In this document he states that he is thirty three years old, a native of Berlin, Prussia and that he came to Australia on the Princess Louise in 1849 just as my ancestors did. The mysterious G. Buring on the passenger list is Gustav Buring.

Naturalisation Papers For Gustav Buring

Naturalisation Papers For Gustav Buring

I can’t quite read both pages of the naturalisation papers. I’ve printed them out, I’ve tried adjusting them to black and white in a graphics editor and reading them on screen but not much luck. If anyone has any other ideas of how to read these pages please let me know.

From what I’ve found out Gustav and Friedrich Adolph went to the Victorian gold fields between 1854 and 1856. It is said that Friedrich became sick and returned to Adelaide where he died in 1856. Gustav’s application for naturalisation was done in Sandhurst, Victoria in 1857. He died in Victoria in 1880. I’m still looking for more information to fill in the gaps. Was Gustav Buring Friedrich’s brother? If he was then this may help to identify their parents in Germany!! Yay!!

Adelaider Liedertafel

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This is my great, great grandfather Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring, known as Rudolph, in the centre of the picture. He was president of the Adelaider Liedertafel from 1904 to 1908. In the top right hand corner of the picture is Friedrich Armbruster, Rudolph’s boss. Rudolph went to work for Armbruster and Uhlmann in 1858 when he was fourteen years old. Rudolph’s father Friedrich Adolph Buring had died two years earlier in 1856. Rudolph later said that his boss Friedrich Armbruster was a father figure and roll model to him. Rudolph, having worked his way up from errand boy, went on to take over the tobacconist business in 1897.

Presidents of the Adelaider Liedertafel

Presidents of the Adelaider Liedertafel