German Immigration To South Australia In The 1800s
. The first group of 21 Lutherans arrived on the Bengaleeon 18 November followed two. Many sons of early German migrants also joined and fought for Australia.
This page focuses on the records about migrants applying to come to South Australia through various government-run schemes. Immigrant passenger arrivals in South Australia usually at Port Adelaide from Australian ports up to 1847 UK Ireland up to 1850 and Germany up to 1858 totaling more than 2000 voyages. The mostly German settled Banat area was once part of the Austrian Empire and is now divided among Romania Yugoslavia and Hungary.
This was the beginning of a steady flow of German migrants to the colony of South Australia and by 1900 Germans and theirdescendentsconstituted 10 percentof the population of the colony EARLY GERMAN SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA The German pioneers who first came to the colony were continuing a long tradition of colonisation and were.
In November 1838 Pastor Kavel brought a large group of German Lutheran migrants to South Australia. German immigration peaked in the 1880s and early 1890s and at the census in 1891 the figure had increased to 9 565. We hold many records relating to immigration to South Australia from 1836 onwards with a full set of digitised passenger lists from 1845 - 1940. German immigration to South Australia Organised immigration to South Australia from Germany began from 1838 with the sponsorship by George Fife Angas chairman of the South Australian Company of a group of religious refugees from Silesia led by Pastor August Kavel.
