At Home in the Hills – Beautiful Blumberg
I’ve often wondered how many people have felt inexplicably drawn to a particular place. It’s a curious sensation, and I’ve…
Category: South Australia
Second Hoffmann Book
I am starting to map out the contents for book 2 In the late-1980s, on our very first trip to…
Harry and Lena Voss
The Voss family married into our Piltz line, and their surname has been regularly mentioned in family stories and occasions…
Mystery Hoffmann
As we know, a number of the children of Samuel and Maria Rosina (nee Hayn) Hoffmann emigrated to South Australia in…
Lobethal Dodransbicentennial
Dodransbicentennial is a Latin word meaning a quarter off a bicentennial, of course therefore 175 years. Which was recognised in…
Lost and now found. Anna Maria ROSINA Hoffmann!
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. Psalm 16:6 As mentioned in…
Another Uncle? Introducing Johann Gottlieb Hoffmann…
Setting out to re-connect our Hoffmann family in Australia has been quite a journey. I commenced decades ago having been…
House in Hahndorf
Local Hahndorf historian Reg Butler, has produced ‘The Hahndorf Allotments Database’. This is a resource that tracks the ownership of Hahndorf…
The Village of Grunthal (now called Verdun) South Australia
The small town of Grunthal was named by its Prussian original settlers around 1840. The township is about 4kms from…
Oath of Allegiance and Nationalisation of Prussian Citizens
This post is paraphrased from Maureen M Leadbeater’s work from familyhistorysa.info From the earliest days of the colony there were non-British immigrants. A…