Tatura and Shepparton Tour
by John Noack
The Wendish Heritage Society's 2009 March Country Tour included, on Saturday 7 March, a visit to Tatura and to its Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum at 49 Hogan St, Tatura. On Saturday evening, we dined, and most participants were accommodated, at ...
Les Kossatz – Wendish Artist and Sculptor
by John Noack
Les Kossatz is a Melbourne artist and sculptor and a descendant of a wendish family. His Exhibition "The Art of Existence" was on display from 22 Nov 2008 to 8 March 2009 at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen. The Age Newspaper o...
Vectis Church buildings – 100th Anniversary
by John NoackOn 17th and 18th November 2008, Zion Lutheran Church at Vectis celebrated the 100th anniversary of the dedication of its present church building. This church was built by H. Dinning from Beulah at a cost of 728 pounds and was dedicated by Pastor J.F....
1858 Hamburg Ships Dinner
by John NoackOur Society's 2008 Dinner at the Ringwood Lutheran Hall provided the opportunity for the descendants of the passengers of the 1858 Hamburg Ships to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of about ten ships, c...
Deutscher Family Reunion
by John NoackDeutscher 2008: A Reunion of the Deutscher descendants celebrating 160 years of the Deutscher Family in Australia took place in Hamilton on 27-28th September 2008. Michael Deutscher and his brother Andreas and sister Magdalene Liebe left their hom...
Treasure at the Bautzen Archives
by Robert WuchatschIn June 2008 I revisited the Bautzen Archives (Archiv Verbund Stadtarchiv/Staatfilialarchiv Bautzen) to continue my Wuchatsch family history research, a project I have been working on for almost 40 years. My interest in family history was stimulated ...
PSA Emigrants from Nieder Weisel
by Kevin Zwar, John NoackOur Pleasant Sunday Afternoon on 6 April 2008 included a Community Lunch, our AGM and a talk on Nieder Weisel. We began with a community lunch at Ivanhoe Lutheran Church at 12.30 pm, followed by the Society's A.G.M. The Directory on p.8 lists the ...
Nagorcka Weekend at Tarrington
by John Noack, Betty Huf
Our Wendish Heritage Society and the descendants of Christian and Emilie Nagorcka (who had twelve children) celebrated the 150th Anniversary of the arrival of the Nagorcka ancestors in Australia in 1857 on the ship Gottorp. We visited Tarrington's Na...
Muriel Wuchatsch (1918–2007)
by Robert WuchatschMuriel Jean Wuchatsch was born on 20 March 1918, the fifth of seven children to John and Caroline Dunn (nee Hudson). She was born in their small weatherboard house which stood just east of the railway line from Robert Street, where a pine tree still ...
Norman Boehm (1927–2007)
by John BoehmNorman Harold Boehm, the fourth child of Wally and Bertha Boehm, was born on the 26/12/1927 at Hopetoun, Victoria where his father was share farming. Norm was baptized in the Yellangip Church by Pastor Jericho. The family moved to the Antwerp - Ar...