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From: BONNEY <>
Subject: KAGELER, FRANKE, KRUGER, BORKE, STILLER, ZINK
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:58:55 +1100


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Husband: Johann Christoph "Christian" KAGELER
Birth: 21 Feb 1824, Carow Village, Ferichow 2, Magdeburg, Prussia
Death: Before Nov 1881, Germany
Occupation: Farmer
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Wife: Wilhelmina FRANKE
Birth: About 1827
Immig: "Catania" arr Port Adelaide 28 Jan 1882
Death: 12 Jul 1907, Elizabeth St, Evandale, South Australia
Burial:14 Jul 1907, Payneham Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation: Farmer
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Children...
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1. Wilhelmine KAGELER
Spouse:Ferdinand KRUGER/KRUEGER
Marriage: Germany
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2. Johann Frederick August "August" KAGELER
Birth: 25 Feb 1851, Carow Village, Ferichow 2, Magdeburg, Prussia
Immig: "Elizabeth" arr Port Adelaide Feb 1880
Death: 1932, Elizabeth St, Evandale, Sth Australia
Spouse:Pauline Augusta Hulda "Hulda" BORKE/BOERKE
Marriage: 11 May 1897, Kagelers' Home, Elizabeth St, Evandale, Adelaide
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3. Friederike Marie Auguste KAGELER
Birth: 8 May 1863, Carow Village, Ferichow 2, Magdeburg, Prussia
Immig: "Catania" arr Port Adelaide 28 Jan 1882
Death: 31 Mar 1928, At Sea, on voyage to Germany to visit relatives
Burial:abt Apr 1928, Bremen Cemetery
Spouse:Johannes STILLER
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4. Friederike Louise "Freida" KAGELER
Birth: 27 Nov 1865, Carow Village, Ferichow 2, Magdeburg, Prussia
Immig: "Catania" arr Port Adelaide 28 Jan 1882
Death: 15 May 1951
Burial: abt May 1951, St Thomas Church Of England, Enfield, New South Wales
Spouse:Heinrich Otto "Henry Otto" "Otto" ZINK
Marriage: 15 May 1884, Kageler's Home, Evandale, South Australia
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Translation of Application for Dismissal of Prussian Citizenship:

The undersigned Royal Prussian ruling government certifies herewith that the
colonist, Johann Christoph Kageler, born on the 21st Febr. 1824 at Carow,
district of Feriohow 2 requested his emigration to Australia, as well as his
spouse Wilhelmine, nee Franke, 53 years of age and the following younger,
under fatherly care, children, (1) Friederike Marie Auguste, born on 8 May
1863 at Carow and (2) Friederike Louise, born on 27 Nov 1865 at Carow.

The dismissal from the Prussian State has been given. This request for
dismissal for the specifically named persons is effective from the date of
issue and results in the loss of Prussian citizenship. It will, however,
become ineffective if the dismissed person does not, within 6 months from
the day of issue of the dismissal, transfer his residence from the district
or gain his citizenship in another state.

(S:13 The recording of the gaining and the loss of citizenship from 1st June
1870. B-CA-BL p.355. Magdeburg 14th Jan. 1881. Royal Prussian ruling
government (signature of issuing official). Dismissal request for Colonist
Johann Christoph Kageler & his family from Carow district of Feriohow 2. Pr.166
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Johann Christoph Kageler died before the family could leave Germany.

His widow, Wilhelmine, then came out to South Australia, bringing daughters
Auguste & Louise with her & they lived in the house in Evandale.

After Auguste married, she & her husband, Johannes Stiller, lived in the
same street in Evandale, diagonally opposite her mother. In 1928 they went
back to Germany & Auguste died during the voyage, hence the headstone in
Bremen cemetery.
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Immigration:
"Catania" under Captain Pitersen, departing Hamburg, Germany, 21 Nov 1881,
arriving Port Adelaide 28 Jan 1882.
KAGELER Wilhelmine, age 54, kaeorv (?) from Sachsen.
KAGELER Louise, age 15, tochter, from Sachsen.
KAGELER Auguste, age 18, tochter, from Sachsen.
The list is in German & is from Hamburg Archives. No South Australian lists
exist for passengers from Germany. Apparently, Bremen lists were destroyed
in the bombing of World War 2.
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In another shipping file re the SS Catania:
Passengers:
KAGELER Wilhelmine, age 54,
Bisheriger Wohnart - Karow
Im Staate oder in der Provinz - Sachsen
Bisheriger Stand oder Beruf - Frau

KAGELER, Auguste, age 18
Principal Address - Karow
State or Province - Sachsen
Occupation - Tochter

KAGELER, Louise, age 12
Details as for Auguste

SIEBERT, Friedrich, age 20
Principal address - Karow
State or Province - Sachsen
Occupation - Knecht

TRENZLAU, August (name unclear), age 20
Details as for Friedrich
The SS Catania
I don't know whether SIEBERT & TRENZLAU were related to our KAGELERs but
they were all from the village of Karow
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The steamship 'Catania' was built by A Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, for the
Hamburg shipping firm of Rob. M Sloman & Co, & launched on 13 April 1881.

* Registered at Hamburg 17 May 1881..2,209.74 tons
* 95.45 x 10.83 x 6.95 metres (length x breadth x depth of hold)
* Straight bow, one funnel, 2 masts, iron construction, screw propulsion,
service speed 11 knots, accommodation for 600 passengers in steerage.
* May 1881, maiden voyage, Hamburg > Cape Town > Australia.

She ran for Sloman between Hamburg and Australia, although not as part of
the Australia-Sloman Linie AG, until Sloman, faced with direct competition
on the Germany-Australia route from Norddeutscher Lloyd, who had obtained a
government postal subsidy, withdrew from the Australia passenger trade in
1886. Master: 1881-1886-G Koch, 1887-1890-H Frank.

Voyages:
* 1881 - Australia twice
* 1882 - Australia/Surabaja; 1882 - Australia/Rangoon
* 1883 - Australia/Iquique
* 1884 - 1885 - Australia
* 1886 - Australia/New York 1887 - 1890..general trader between Europe &
North America
* 13 April 1890 - First voyage, Hamburg - Philadelphia, for the joint
Hamburg American/Union Line service. (Sloman & his nephew, Edward Carr, had
founded the Union Line in 1886, as a holding company for a Hamburg - New
York passenger service)

* 1894, withdrawn from the Hamburg - Philadelphia service when this becomes
the sole responsibility of the Hamburg American Line

* December 1897, sold to Funch, Edye & Co, New York. The Edye family were
relatives of the Sloman's. In 1881 John Alfred Edye owned 6/96ths & in 1888
owned 10/200ths of the Catania.

* 1908, converted to a tanker; tonnage 3,269 tons ( San Francisco owners).
7 January 1920, wrecked at New Orleans.

** Ernst Hieke, Rob. M Sloman Jr, errichtet 1893, Veroffentlichungen der
Wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungsstelle e. V, Hamburg, 30 (Hamburg:
Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968), p 384; Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor,
North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services
Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed; Jersey, Channel Islands:
Brookside Publications), vol 3 (1979) p 1167) - ( Posted to the
Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 13 March 1998). See
http://www.bit.net.au/~gjanke/catania.htm

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