Ferdinand Pietsch - The Leontine
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LEONTINE
last modified 2 February 2006
The Leontine, a three masted ship of 758 tons (nm) was built at Vagesak for D.H. W?tjen & Co. (ownership attributed to K Laun of Bremen in 1848 newspaper reports) and launched on 19 April 1844. She was initially engaged in the packet trade between Bremen and America.
The Leontine is known to have made two voyages to Australia.
Under the command of Wilhelm Johann Ariaans, she departed Bremen on 10th April 1848, stopped at Rio de Janiero and arrived in South Australia on 1st August 1848. She departed on 17 Oct 1848 for Batavia.
The Leontine made a second voyage to SA under the command of captain Ariaans in 1850, leaving Bremen on 10 May 1850 and arriving in Port Adelaide on 13 Aug 1850.
Contents * Brief Description * Passenger List * Newspaper Reports * References * Links * Ship Index
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Passenger List
No official passenger list has been located for the Leontine and only cabin passengers are listed in newspaper reports. The list below is based on two lists obtained from the Lutheran Archives, Adelaide, SA [1] and updated lists that appear in the Koenig [8] and Traeger [5] family histories. All are believed to be based on the research undertaken by Carl Heyne. Some ammendments have been made where necessiated by recent information and are noted below [10]. Additional information comes from South Australians 1836-1885[6 ].
The following extract is from Because of their Beliefs[7] (p 62):
"On 20 March 1848 E Delius dispatched the Leontine under Captain Laun from Bremen to South Australia; this ship belonged to the shipowner Watjeu & Co and took fifty people of the Silesian emigration society at Peterswaldau in the administrative region of Breslau. Delius also seems to have dispatched another group in the autumn of 1848, according to the above-mentioned dispute with Hartig. No further details are known of either group."
Captain
ARIAANS [1,5,8] Wilhelm Johann
Cabin Passengers
ALEDGER [1,5,8] Mr C L
BUSSNER [1,5,8] Wilhelm
EHMKE [1,5,6,8,9] Herman Heinrich Wilhelm (b 17 Aug 1817) Hanover
Auguste Maria Friedericke (nee BARCKOW) (b 28 Jan 1816)
.....Johann Wilhelm Theodore (b 15 Aug 1842)
.....Emma
.....Maria (2 others?)
HAAK [1,5] Mr J
HABER [1,5,9,12] G
HERING [1,5,8,9] (husband, wife, 3 children)
ISAACHSEN [1,5] Franz Heinrich, wine merchant (b 1825) (also appears as Hans Thomas [8,9])
LAEZOIN [1,5,8,9] Mr R
LAUN [1,5,8.9] Mr E, owner of Leontine
NOLTENIUS [1,5,8,9] Mr C B
SCHLEICHER [1,5,8,9,12] Freiderich Wilhelm
Caroline
.....Leoniline (1848-1849)
SEGNITZ [1,8,9]
Mr Eduard
SUTTER [1,5,8,9] (husband, wife, 4 children)
SUTTER [1,5,8,9] Miss Maxine
STAKEMANN [1,5,8] Mr H C, German Consul
TUPPEL [1,5,8] Mr H
Steerage Passengers (total 262)
BRANDT [1,5,8] Maria (b 1811)
CRAMER [1,5,8] Heinrich (b 15 Jan 1816) from Pettens
GL?DE [1,5,8] Johan Heinrich (b 1810) from Nantrow, Mecklenburg
Magdaline Johanna Sophia (nee BRANDT) (b 1817)
[6]
.....Maria Dorathea (b 1837)
.....Johann Joachim Friederich (b 1840)
[6]
.....Sophia Dorathea (b 1841)
GROTH [1,5,6,8] Jacob Heinrich (31) from Wansbech, Hamburg
HABERECHT [1,5,8,12] Johann Carl Gottlieb (b 11 Jan 1815) from Weigelsdorf, Silesia
Susanna Eleonore (nee HERMANN) (b 19 May 1814) Breisnite, SiIesia
.....Johan Carl Gottlob (1840-1910)
.....Wilhelm Friederich (1842-l917)
.....Johan Carl August (1844-1924)
.....Johanne Caroline (1847-1918)
H?BNER[5,8] MW
H?BNER[1,5,8,12] Johann Gottfried, (b 2 Sep 1802) Silesia
Anna Rosina (nee SIEGERT) (b 21 Dec 1808) Groz Tinz Liegnitz, Prussia
.....Anna Christiane (12)
.....Johan Friederich Wilhelm (7)
.....Marie Louise (4)
.....Caroline Anna (2)
JAEKEL[5,11] Carl Erdmann (39, 17 Oct 1808) from Peterswaldau, Silesia
Johanne Eleonore (nee BLEICHER) (39, 17 Jul 1808)
.....Hermann Carl (9, 17 Jul 1838)
.....Auguste Luise (4, 9 August 1843)
KOENIG [1,5,6,8] Johan Christian (b 19 Jun 1823) Gross Rosenburg, Prussia
KOENIG [5,8] brother to above?
LAUNER [5] Johann Karl Gustav from Langenbielau
wife (nee LIHR) 2 children
LEHMANN [1,5,8] Johan Gottlieb (b 18 Sep 1816) Gross Rosenburg, Prussia
Caroline Sophie Amalie (nee LEMM) (b 30 Jul 1826) Potsdam, Prussia
[6]
.....Louise Pauline Bertha (b 20 Aug 1846) Potsdam, Prussia
LEMM [1,5,6,8] Christian Friederich Wilhelm (b 20 Oct 1791) Potsdam, Prussia
Sophie Amalie (nee HOFF) (b 12 May 1798)
.....August Heinrich Wilhelm Child (b 3 Jun 1823)
.....Karl August (b 13 Dec 1828)
.....Marie Sophie Amalie (b 6 Nov 1830)
.....Heinrich Gustav (b 15 Apr 1833)
MOLLER [1,5,8,12] Franz Heinrich (b 28 Oct 1805) Altona, Hamburg
Henriette Friedericke Emilie (Nee LIVONIUS) (b 19 Apr 1817) Schwerin
.....Heinrich Wilhelm (11)
.....Gottfried Christian (9)
.....Emilie Henriette Elisabeth (6)
.....Donat Ed.Wilbelm (4)
.....Franz Wilhelm (2)
.....Henriette Dorathea, (infant)
PAULKE [1,5,8] Anna
RATHJEN[1,2,5,8,12] Heinrich Gerhard (b 8 Oct 1823) Tossens, Oldenberg, Holstein.
REHDER [1,5,6,8] Johan Friederich Wilhelm (b ca. 1808) from Hamburg
Johanne Marie Caroline (nee DISSELDORF) (b ca. 1817) 7 children
.....William (b ca. 1836)
.....August (b ca. 1839)
.....Caroline Louise Mathildda (b ca. 1840)
.....Clare Elizabeth Frederike
.....Bertha Margaretha
.....Mary
.....Julia (b ca. 1847)
RIEBE [1,5,8]
SCHACHE [1,5,8,11] Carl Gottlob (b 10 Sept 1794) Grosstienz, Liegnitz, Silesia
Maria Rosina (nee VOGEL) (b 16 Sept 1793)
.....Carl Gottlob (b 18 Dec 1825)
.....Heinrich Wilhelm (b 8 Sep 1828)
.....Ernst Gottfried (b 7 May 1830)
.....Johanne Elisabeth (b 2 Jul 1832)
.....Traugott Wilhelm (b 29 May 1835)
SCHACHE [5]
Johann Gottlieb (b 1823, son of Carl Gottlob)
Maria Rosina (nee ULBRICHT)
TRAEGER [1,5,8,12] Carl Gottlieb (48) Weigelsdorf, Reichenbach, Silesia.
Maria Rosina, (nee RUPRECHT) (45)
.....Johanne Helene (b 1830)
.....Carl Gottlieb (15, b 1833)
.....Rosina Helene (15, b 1833)
.....Ernst Gottlieb (12, b 1836)
TRAEGER [1,3,5,8,12] Johann Gottlieb (48, b 30 Jan 1808) Weigelsdorf, Reichenbach, Silesia
Anna Dorathea (nee H?LBERT) (45, b 20 Oct 1812) Pellan
.....Johan Carl Wilhelm (13, b 1835)
.....Johanne Caroline (9, b 1839)
[3,8] .....Ernst August (6, b 22 Sep 1842) Bilvara, Silesia
.....Johanne Dorathea (4, b 1844)
.....Johanne Christianne Louise (1, b 1847)
WARNECKE [5,8,12] Johann Carl Friedrich (b 1814) Hamburg
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Newspaper Reports
The South Australian Register
Adelaide - Wednesday 2nd August, 1848
"The German immigrant ship "Leontine" from Bremen
We have the pleasure to greet the arrival of another large batch of German emigrants by the Bremen ship Leontine, the owner of which Mr Laun, formerly commander of the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel, has brought a quantity of cargo on his own account, consigned, with the vessel, to H. C. Stakemann, Esq., the German Consul. The Leontine left Bremen on the 10th April, and touching at Rio for water and to refresh the emigrants, stopped there for a week, making the passage thence in 50 days. The total number of emigrants is 262, of whom 28 are cabin passengers, and several of them capitalists, who intend to purchase land. Only one adult and two or three newly-born children died on the passage, and we are assured that the emigrants, several of whom are from Prussia, are, as a body, the finest set of people yet landed here from that part of Europe."
The Adelaide Observer Vol. VI-No. 267
Adelaide - Saturday 5th August, 1848
"Shipping Intelligence -
Arrived
Tuesday August 1st - The ship Leontine, 758 tons, Wm. Ariaans, master, from Bremen, 10th April. Passengers - Mr and Mrs Hering and three children, Mr and Mrs Schleicher and child, Mr and Mrs Sutter and 4 children, Miss Max Sutter, Mr and Mrs Ehmcke and 5 children, Mr G. Haber, Mr C. B. Noltenius, Mr H. T. Isaachsen, Mr E. Segnitz, Mr R. Laczoin, Mr E. Laun in the cabin, and 262 emigrants in steerage."
The Adelaide Observer Vol. VI-No. 267
Adelaide - Saturday 5th August, 1848
"THE GERMAN EMIGRANT SHIP "LEONTINE" FROM BREMEN
On Monday we greeted the arrival of another large batch of German emigrants by the Bremen ship Leontine, the owner of which Mr Laun, formerly commander of the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel, has brought a quantity of cargo on his own account, consigned, with the vessel, to H. C. Stakemann, Esq., the German Consul.
The Leontine left Bremen on the 10th April, and touching at Rio for water and to refresh the emigrants, stopped there for a week, making the passage thence in 50 days. The total number of emigrants is 262, of whom 28 are cabin passengers, and several of them capitalists, who intend to purchase land. Only one adult and two or three newly-born children died on the passage, and we are assured that the emigrants, several of whom are from Prussia, are, as a body, the finest set of people yet landed here from that part of Europe...."
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References
[1] Reconstructed passenger list from Lutheran Archives, Archer St, North Adelaide, SA (original source unknown)
[2] Paech W.H. Rathjen Family History: 1823-1973, 1973
[3] Traeger P. Chronicles of the Family Graue Graue family Reunion Committee: Adelaide,1981
[4] Sexton, R.T. Shipping Arrivals and Departures South Australia 1627-1950 Gould Books: Ridgehaven, SA, 1990 (p 143)
[5] Traegers from Weigelsdorf to Australia Traeger Family Australia: Willunga, SA, 1998 (pp18-21)
[6] Thomas J (ed.) South Australians 1836-1885 South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society: Adelaide, 1990 [vol 1 p 237 (Ehmcke), p 613 (Gloede). 325 (Groth), 445 (Koenig), 533 (Lehmann) 469 (Lemm), vol 2 p 684 (Rehder)]
[7] Iwain, W. Because of Their Beliefs (English translation of Um Glauben willen nach Australien translator and editor Schubert, D,) H Schubert, Highgate, SA, 1985.
[8] Heinrich E. Christian and Karl Koenig and their Descendents in Australia Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, 1990 (pp 14-15)
[9] Newspaper report: The Adelaide Observer Vol. VI, No. 267 Adelaide, Saturday 5th August, 1848 (see above).
[10] Three Hinneberg children [Friederich Heinrich (b 4 Sep 1838), Christian Heinrich (b 16 Nov 1843) and Rosina Wilhelmine (b 23 Sep 1845)] that appear in various lists [1, 5, 8] have been removed from the current list as it is now known that they arrived in Victoria on the Malvina(e) Vidal in 1854 with their mother Marie Christiane (nee Lehmann) and stepfather Adolf Carl Theodor Berkholz before travelling to South Australia.
[11] Wayne Knoll - personal communication.
[12] Statten J (ed.) Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885 South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society: Adelaide, 1886 [vol 2 p 289, 577 (Gloede), p 633 (Haber, Haberecht), p 788 (Hubner), vol 3 p 1125 (Moller), p 1332 (Rathjen) vol 4 p 1439 (Schleicher), p1616, 1617 (Traeger), p 1674 (Warncke)].
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Links
Leontine passengers (1848 voyage)
David H Hunter - HISTORY TIMELINES 1801 - 1900 (Carl Gottllob Schache)
JOHN HABERECHT'S FAMILY TREE (Johann Carl Gottlieb Haberecht)
Pasenger list (Di Cummings - Bound for South Australia)
Ship details
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels
Passenger lists (other voyages)
January 1850 Bremen - New Orleans
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
13 August 1850 Bremen - Port Adelaide
Passenger list (Di Cummings - Bound for South Australia)
August 1857 Bremen - New York
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Other Imformation
Leontine in Port at San Francisco 1852
The Maritime Heritage Project