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All of these articles below are related in some way to the relatives [including those currently living in Germany] of Johanne Eleonore LIEBELT b1833 & Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN b1823 who arrived in SA as a 5 year old girl on the Ship Zebra & as a 26 year old carpenter on the Ship Princess Louise, for the purpose of documenting family research or displaying, preserving & sharing the contents of these private Collections.

Table of Contents

1. Where did Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN's parents, grandparents & uncles & aunts come from in Germany?
2. Johanna Eleanore LIEBELT's grand parents, Johann Christoph LIEBELT 1775-1846 & Anna Elisabeth STEINBORN 1769-1857  
3. Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN & Johanna Eleanore LIEBELT marry 1854, Hahndorf.
4. Lothar BRASSE:   'J.C.F. FAEHRMANN's Built Legacy' 
5. Children of FAEHRMANN & LIEBELT 
6. Otto August Ferdinand FAEHRMANN, half brother of Johann Carl Friedrich FAERHMANN

7. Beryl BENHAM 'Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection'

8. Gwenda LUCAS 'Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection'

9. Alan REDDY 'Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection'

10. 'FAEHRMANN' collection in State Library of SA.  

1.    Johann Christian FÄHRMANN 1754-1796 & Katharina Marie KÖHNEN of Rohrbeck, Brandenburg, Prussia.

Are the grandparents of Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN b1823, & they were married in the Kirke of the small village of Rohrbeck in 1787, which I visited in 2023. We can confirm only 5 sons Johann Friedrich, Carl, Nicolaus, Johann Carl Heinrich & Johann Joachim.  The first 3 boys were born in Rohrbeck, then Johann Carl in Dömitz on the Elbe River, and the last also was born in Rohrbeck, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenberg, Germany.  In the Stendal Archive, Nicolaus the 3rd son, the father of Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN, has his surname spelt FÄHRMANN, JÄHRMANN & TÄHRMANN.   Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN arrived in South Australia as a qualified carpenter in 1849 & his half brother Otto August Ferdinand arrived as an 8 year old in 1855 on the Ship La Rochelle.  

Tangermüde FAEHRMANN’s.   This article takes us to the church on Rohrbeck, 33kms north of Tangermünde where my gggg grandparents [see above] married in 1787, 236 years ago.  You will meet their other descendants still living in Tangermünde, who in 2018 had no idea that they had relatives in Australia.  Discover how the South Australian, Hahndorf & Caloote FAEHRMANNs are related to those in Germany.  

Read the 1849 "Emigrants Guide to South Australia", written by George DOEGER & published in Tangermünde, this may well have contributed to the young Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN emigrating to South Australia.  View the original records from the Saint Stephens Kirche in Tangermünde.  Visit the villages they knew so well, Fischbeck, Gross Ellingen, Dömitz, Schönhausen, Cabelitz, Neuendorf in Speck, all near the Elbe River.

& then visit the descendants' graves in Caloote, Palmer & Hahndorf, South Australia.

Stendal Archives September 2023

Jerichow Monastery

Jerichow village.   Here we meet Johann Friedrich FÄHRMANN & Wilhelmine VOIGT whose 3 children & 8 grandchildren were born in Jerichow between 1800-1887.  There will be a stroll through the village, visit the Dutch windmill of the 1700's, & at the Rathaus we meet Minna SCHULZE, a baby born enroute [Ship 'Eduard'] to South Australia and whose parents [SCHULZE & LITZMANN] came from the small village of Cade in 1878.  See how the Jerichow archivist celebrates this birth, & perhaps help find her descendants in the Eudunda area of South Australia.

Schönhausen village

Letters to Frau FAHRMANN

2.   Johann Christoph LIEBELT 1775-1846 & Anna Elisabeth STEINBORN 1769-1857  

Were on the Ship Prince George with their eldest son while their second son,  Johann Christian LIEBELT b1801 who married 1822c, Maria Elisabeth KUCHEL b1798, were on the Ship Zebra.  They  had 2 sons and then a daughter Johanna Eleonore LIEBELT with them.  This is the story about their daughter Johanna Eleonore LIEBELT 1833-1914   [LIEBELT Family History 2nd son, 3rd child page.......]  Eleonore was 5 years old on the 'Zebra', & she inherited 108 Main Rd & other land in Hahndorf from her parents.  This article looks at the Certificate of Titles the story of how she was almost hit by a spear & how she suffered an agonising death as remembered by descendants & reported by the Mount Barker Courier.   

3.  Eleonore LIEBELT b1833 marries in 1854 Carl FAEHRMANN b1823

Talking about Tangermünde:  Tangermünde on the Elbe River, SE of Berlin, where Carl learnt his carpentry trade, where his FÄHRMANN relatives currently live & photographs of why this place is so special.

Time-Line:  Here is a dated 'time-line' that follows the carpentry career of Carl & his children, his projects with GLADIGAU, his timber licence, the construction dates of the known buildings he was involved with: WITTWER's Hahndorf Mill, St Michael's Church & the St Paul's Church of England.  In 1879 Carl is teaching F. DAHL carpentering.  I explore the working lives, addresses & trades of the 6 FAEHRMANN sons.  In the 'time line' for 1894, Carl's 5th child, August Friedrich FAEHRMANN is accused of an assault at the German Arms Hotel, witnessed by one of his brothers. We take a walk around Tangermünde, Germany, and also see a display of examined & documented tools that Carl owned.  There is a copy of his naturalisation certificate & his last Will.  

Carpenters symbols."Zimmerer-Werkzeichen = Carpenter’s markings or carpentry symbols"  This article provides visuals of the numerous 'carpenters marks'  found on red gum beams in homes, attics & barns in the Friedrichstadt, Paechtown, Hahndorf & Blakiston area.  It then provides a comparison of the many homes in the Tangermünde area which share the same symbols, still visible on Oak beams after 260 years.

4.   Lothar BRASSE  'J.C.F. FAEHRMANN's Built Legacy' 

Facing Lubasch's barn, built by Faehrmann, what am I looking at?

This article introduces you to Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN and discusses the assertion of Oswald Friedrich FAEHRMANN that his grandfather built the Paechtown houses.  It traces the architecture of half timbered houses & barns in Friedrichstadt, Paechtown & Hahndorf.  It draws on previous sketches, studies & power point presentations by Lothar BRASSE.

5.  Children of J.E. LIEBELT & J.C.F. FAEHRMANN

1.  Marie Auguste Louise FAEHRMANN 1855-1915 & Franz Wilhelm DAHL

2.  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm FAEHRMANN 1857-1935 & Auguste Martha WIETH

1st child  Oswald Friedrich FAEHRMANN 1883-1935

3.  Carl August FAERHRMANN 1859-1934  & Jessie ACKLAND

4.  Alexandre August Friedrich FAEHRMANN 1863-1938 & Karoline KREIS

5.  Theodore Christoph Otto FAEHRMANN 1866-1940 & Annie Paulina MANGLESDORF

Theodore C Otto FAEHRMANN 

1st child Theodor Ewald Wilhelm 1887-1952 & Ivy Beatrice WHITEHEAD 1895-1980

Photographs

WW1 & the 27th Battalion, 1916-1919.

2nd child Eva Olive 1889-1970 & Sydney James Clifford REYNOLDS 1891-1983

6.  Christoph Alexander FAEHRMANN 1868-1947 & Rosena Sophiena MUELLER 1873-1962

6.   Otto August Ferdinand FAEHRMANN

Otto August Ferdinand is the half brother of JCF FÄHRMANN & arrived as an eight year old with his mother & step father on the La Rochelle in September 1855.  By pure chance I came across his mothers broken & unkempt grave site in the Palmer Cemetery.  Otto is buried with his family members in the Caloote Cemetery.  Otto was an early pioneer of Palmer/Caloote but possibly spent the immediate years after his arrival in Hahndorf possibly living with his newly married brother J.C.F. FAEHRMANN. 

School Records.   Summerfeldt School 1881-1886 & Caloote School Records 1886-1938

7.  Beryl BENHAM 'Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection'

Photo Book

Nickolaus Friederich Carl FAEHRMANN 1872-1906 & Mary Jane JONES 1867-1942  part 1 of 3  In this article there are photographs of the blacksmith business in front of 108 Main St, Hahndorf, one photo shows Nickolaus with his 2 children just a year before his tragic death.  You can read an interesting story [involving a number of Hahndorf families], of how, known as 'Fritz', at 16 years of age in 1888, he was found guilt of assault and as a result we look at the WALTROWICZ, GALLASCH, MARTIN, PANJAS, WILLEMER & GREGOR, RODER & THIELE families. I also explore the working relationship between Nickolaus's father & the WILLIMERS.  I trace Fritz's wedding, wife & the birth of their 3 children, & in some detail the origins & history of the 2 adjoining blocks of land 108 & 106 Main St, Hahndorf. Three newspapers reported on 34 year old Nickolaus's tragic death including the horrible injuries to his helper Charles HIGGINS.&  Mary Jane JONES & the life of the Hahndorf Blacksmith at 106 then 108 Main St Hahndorf.

'Fritz' FAEHRMANN  Blacksmith Records  part 2 of 3.   These scanned Hahndorf blacksmith records were filled out daily by Nickolaus FAEHRMANN & date from 1 October 1901 until page 239 on 3 June 1905.  This inventory records hundreds of interactions with his customers, many of whom descend from 'Zebra' passengers. Each page is fascinating, a tribute to Beryl BENHAM who has guardianship of her grandfather's documents.  The following family names are mentioned in this article:    ALSON, AURICH, BRAENDLER, BARBER, BRATAG, BOWDEN, BEAUMONT, BOEHM, BENNETT, BEARE, BERRY, BARTLETT, CAREY, CASH,  CHILDS, CONSTABLE, CLOUSHOLM, CONSAY, DAHL, DARBY, DELAYNE, DAINTY, DELAINY, DEIMEL, DIETRICH, DRUTE, EDWARDS, EY, FAEHRMANN, FAULKNER, FICHTNER, FIX, FISHER, GALLASCH, GREGOR, GRIVELL, GIBBONS, GRAY, GUERIN, HAINES, HARE, HEINRICH, HUBBIS, HALL, HILLMAN, HAIR, HOOD, JAMES, JACOBSON, JAENSCH KELCY, KRAMM, KÖRBER, KOEGER,  KUCHEL, LAUGHS, LIEBELT, LUENERT, LEOPOLT, LAUCH, MANGELSDORF, MARTIN, MATTFELDT, McKENZIE, MILLS, MOONIE, MOONEY, MUELLER, MITCHELL, MEYERS, NITSCHKE, OLSON, PAECH, PADE, PAIN, PFENNIG, PEPPER, PORTIS, PEAKE, RAETHKE, REIMANN, ROEGER, ROLACH, RUGE, RUNDLE, ROTHE, RUDD, SANDOW, SCHUNKE, SCHMISZ, SCHMIDTKE, SCHMISY, SCHNEEMIULCH, SCHEMES, SONNEMANN, SOMMEMANN, STORCH, STIGWOOD, STREMPEL, SAUNDERCOCK, SPOEHR, THIELE, TRELOAR, VAN der MOLEN, WATTS, WALTROWITZ, WALTROWITY, WEST, WITTWER, WILSON, WHIBLY, 'Fritz' FAEHRMANN  

Blacksmith Accounts   part 3 of 3

Eleanore FAEHRMANN accounts

8.  Gwenda LUCAS 'Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection'

 Photographs

 Lorenzo Otto FAEHRMANN 1` Palmer School exercise book, 1900

Lorenzo Otto FAEHRMANN 2 school book

9.   Alan REDDY 'Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection'

J.C.F. FÄHRMANN's tools.  

This article displays photographs of the tools held, until 2022, by his great grandson, Allan REDDY, at that time in a box with a small explanation card on it.  They have since been donated to the Hahndorf Academy, South Australia, for use in their displays of Hahndorf German history and should be available for any descendant or interested person to view in person.  

There are 11 planes,  Convex Moulding Plane blade 35mm [by John J HARLEY Liverpool, J SWIFT], Concave Moulding Plane blade 15mm [A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow/Edinburg + star & sickle], Concave Moulding Plane blade 20mm [by A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow/Edinburg + star & sickle] , Concave Moulding Plane blade 30mm [A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow/Edinburg + star & sickle], Grooving Plane blade 54mm [A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow/Edinburg + star & sickle], Grooving Plane blade 16mm [A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow/Edinburg + star & sickle], Rebate Plane blade 27mm [by Martin & Shaw], Small Plane blade 2" [by Ward Steel], Small Plane blade 1/8" [A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow/Edinburg + star & sickle] Marking Gauge, Mortise & Tenon 60x60x30, Jack Plane blade 2 1/4" x 2 [A. MATHEISON & Son, Glasgow], Jack Plane restored blade 2 1/8", 

10.  'FAEHRMANN' collection in State Library of SA.  

In 1988 J.P. MULDER provided the SLSA with documents & publications recovered from a cottage in Aurich Rd, Hahndorf.  It includes memorium cards, christening & confirmation papers, songbooks, tax return and a letter.  Also a 1793, 'Biblische Predigten & Gesangbücher' inscribed with births & deaths from 1841-1853, &  a song book present to Marie Hermine Hilda FAEHRMANN by her mother in 1900 & Cash Books 1891-1896 & 1946-1970.