German Migrants to Adelaide

[victoriajoule]

Hi Guys

A friend of mine is doing her some research on her ancestry and has come across an interesting situation which I am hoping to get help with.

Her ancestor, Friedrich Wilhelm Oehlmann, was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1825.  He married and had a number of children there.  In 1877 however, the marriage certificate of one of his sons, states that the mother was deceased, and his father (Friedrich) lived in Adelaide, Australia.

She is currently trying to establish whether this is correct, as she has found a possible death for Friedrich back in Magdeburg.  She cannot find a death for his wife Friederike Auguste Albertine Schmidt.

We have looked on ancestry, familysearch and Trove to see if we can find any record of Friedrich going to, in or back from Oz, but can't.  Does anyone know where else we can try to identify if he was actually in Adelaide and for how long ?

Thanks for your help

[davecapps]

If you mean the marriage of Paul Otto Oehlmann, he was married in 1887.

Comparing Friedrichs death record from 1900 and the marriage record it seems to be the same person. His proffesion in both doc´s is stated as being a "Werksführer" foreman
He could have gone back to Germany sometime between 1887 and 1900

[davecapps]

Friederike Oelmann (different spelling)
Died 6. Jan 1872

https://search.ancestry.de/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61132&h=2161235&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDe3&_phstart=successSource

if you need any help transcribing the document let me know
Dave

[victoriajoule]

Thank you Dave. We will have a look at this.  We were hoping to try and identify some records which may have actually placed him in Australia .....but doesn't look hopeful !

Great find for Friederike, thank you !!!

[shume]

There is on Family Search a passenger record for  Mr Oehlmann age 73 in 1896 from Adelaide  to Bremen per "Oldenburg". Someone has claimed him for their tree naming him as Friederich Wilhelm Oehlmann.
So if this is him, perhaps he was in SA for several years. ADD:  F W Oeblmann (sic). c.o. Paul Oehlmann, Adelaide. Australische Zeitung  (Newspaper) 2/3/1892  Found on a German Geneanet website.

shume     australia

[davecapps]

Hi Shume

post the links to the to the things you have found so we can have a look

Dave

[victoriajoule]

Thank you Shume - I think we found the passenger record for Mr Oehlmann.  As Dave says, if you can give us a link to the other record you found, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
Victoria

[victoriajoule]

Dave - I found the newspaper on Trove

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229179708?searchTerm=F%20W%20Oeblmann&searchLimits=l-decade=189|||l-year=1892

[davecapps]

Hi Victoria,

here´s the link for the passenger list in Family Search

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS69-89Q3?cc=2613135&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A7FXN-YG2M

I saved the doc to my computer. Send me your e-mail adress per PM
and i´ll send it to you

Dave