Henry Reuben Kroehnert (1884-1969) and his mother Matilda Kroehnert nee Davis (1838-1924), taken in 1899. Picture: Kroehnert family
My ancestor Rudolph Franz Hugo Kroehnert arrived in Australia in 1854 on the Earl Selkirk.
The graves of Rudolph and Matilda Kroehnert and four of their 14 children at St Peter’s
Anglican Cemetery, Richmond. Picture: L. Knight
Rudolph was born in 1827 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia). He was the youngest of the six children of Johann Daniel and Charlotte Juliane Kroehnert. When he was almost 27 he journeyed to England and then sailed to Sydney. ]
Joseph Lowe, also from East Prussia, sailed as a steward on the same vessel. After their arrival, the two compatriots opened a shop together in the Haw…
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