Love it! Keeps up the great work.

I enjoy viewing your website. Hope you have a good day.

A piece of history that proves Australia's multicultural roots.

Very good homepage. Tolle missionen im Queensland. Macht weiter so. Die seite ist sehr interessant.

Güsse aus Deutschland,

Marcel

Thanks for this information.

As a descendant of the first Lutheran settlers from the Prussian villages of Ukermark and Julienhoff, some of whom were Lutheran Pastors and all of them were devout Lutherans, I have been seeking information about the influences of early ideas which inspired those early pioneers.

I understand that there was a great deal of disruption and hardship after Napolean trounced many of the Prussian villages up to that era and that also the Lutheran Church was under threat of unification and change.

In relation to the indigenous peoples, I have personally also worked on two 'missions'in North Queensland and Northern Territory and by my own efforts over time have formed a haphazard picture of the origins of the early missionary influence in this country.

Thanks again,

Jennifer Devine

My great great great grandparents are johannes hermann and tryphena wenban.There daughter hannah york(nee hermann)claimed to be the first white child born in moreton bay.johannes hermann was a missionary at the zion hill mission.do you have any information on this.

I am the author of the history-based blog Your Brisbane: Past and Present. Thanks for this wonderful research about our early days - it's fascinating!

Thank you for this useful site! As I am working on an edition of my great-great-grandfather Johann Flierl's autobiography, I found out interesting details thanks to your online publication. An Australian book would not have been as easy to find here in Germany ...

Under the page on German Missionaries in Qld, the person shown on the left of the photo titled 'Pastor Poland with Arthur and Martha Reuther (on the right) at Crows Nest' is Pastor Wilhelm Edwin Wiencke (my grandfather).

An interesting history on some of my family members - especially the Zillmans. It is a shame the account does not cover the experience of World War I and World War II and the state's response to German migrants.