German Immigration To South Australia
. You can read how intitially they stayed with Pastor Kavel and his first wave of Lutheran immigrants at Klemzig before heading north and settling in the historic Barossa Valley. South Australian Shipping and Immigration Family History SA website Collection of name searchable passenger lists for South Australia from 1803 - 1850 and up to 1858 for German shipping.
Hundreds more Germans rushed to. German Emigrants to South Australia 1837-1866 Transcribed from original passenger lists by Robert Janmaat of Adelaide. German place names in South Australia were changed.
In simplistic terms German immigration commenced with the settlement of the Gossner group missionaries at German Station Nundah in the 1830s soon after Queensland gained separation from New South Wales as a free colony until the era just prior to World War I with the influx of assisted German migrants for the Apostolic Church of Queensland community ventures.
Friedrich Wilhelm was himself a Calvinist but the majority of his subjects were Lutherans. In simplistic terms German immigration commenced with the settlement of the Gossner group missionaries at German Station Nundah in the 1830s soon after Queensland gained separation from New South Wales as a free colony until the era just prior to World War I with the influx of assisted German migrants for the Apostolic Church of Queensland community ventures. Although a few individuals had emigrated earlier the first large group of Germans arrived in South Australia 1838 not long after the British colonisation of South Australia. Fleeing religious persecution these intrepid souls travelled aboard the Skyjold with Pastor Fritschke arriving in Port Adelaide South Australia on 27 Oct 1841.
