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 Anna Dorothea STEINBORN & Johann Christoph LIEBELT Snr.: To follow the children of this marriage.

• Anna Bertha & Gustav Adolph KUCHEL are John MUELLER's great aunt and great uncle.
• Anna Bertha & Gustav Adolph KUCHEL are the authors 2C2R.

Summary

• Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL b1846 is John MUELLER's great grandfather &  the author's 1C4R.
  • Johanna Louise LIEBELT b1848 is John MUELLER's great grandmother & the author's 1C3R.
• This article & article numbers  4, 5 & 6 follows the 8 surviving children of the Johanne Louise LIEBELT & Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL marriage.
  • This particular article follows the next two children who married COLLINS & BRAENDLER.
  • Articles no 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 follows the 5 surviving children of the Kuchel sister 2:   Johanne Dorothea Elisabeth KUCHEL & Johann Gottlieb Erdmann KUCHEL marriage.
• 5 photographs from the John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material.

The family names mentioned in this article:

ALTMANN, ASSENDE, BRAUER, BURGEMEISTER, BRASSE, BRAENDLER, BUTLER, BARTELS, CARPENTER, CHANDLER, CHRISTIAN, COLLINS, CLOUGH, CLASOHM, DIEDERICH, EY, FIX,  GALLASCH, GREGOR, HALLIDAY, HEYSEN, HENNINGSEN, HENTY, HUNTER, HEINRICH, HILL, HOLLAND, KAESLER, KEEFE, KLAEBSCH, KRAMM, KUCHEL, KORBER, LIEBELT, LINDNER, LEATCH, LUBASCH, LÜNERT, MAGOR, MENADUE, MEYER, MENZEL, van der MOLEN, MARTIN, MINKWITZ, MUELLER, MULLER, NELSON, NITSCHKE, NORTON, ORMOND, PETTY, PFENNIG, PAULSEN, PARBS, PAECH, POTTER, PETERING, ROWE, SAWADE, SCHULZ, SCHMEISS, STEVEN, THIELE, VAUGHN, WOOLLEY,  WITTWER, WIGGE, WILSON, WHITE, WILLIS, WARNER, WAKEFIELD, ZEUNERT, ZILM.

Table of Contents

1. The parents:  Johanna Louise LIEBELT & Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL
2. Anna Bertha KUCHEL m William Charles COLLINS
3. Old man COLLINS & Hans HEYSEN

1.    The parents

'KUCHEL 1838-1970' by V. SCHWERDT, G. HILL & E.A. WITTWER, 1970  page
Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL Born: 21 April 1846 Hahndorf South Australia. Married: 4 May 1871  Died: 31 October 1923, Hahndorf, S.A. Buried:  Hahndorf Public Cemetery		Johanne Louise LIEBELT Born: 15 June 1848 Hahndorf South Australia. Married: 4 May 1871  Widowed: 1923, lived another 17 years.  Died: 29 March 1940 Hahndorf, S.A. Buried:  Hahndorf Public Cemetery
Gottfried's eldest child born in Australia was Johann Gottlieb, who was born in 1847.  He married Johanne Louise Liebelt and lived on part of the Liebelt property at Friedrichstadt.  Gottlieb was a carpenter.  He made rakes and other implements, and also hurdles for the Oakbank races.  Most of his children were on the land or interested in gardening.    ... Anna Bertha KUCHEL ...His daughter Bertha married William Collins and lived at Hahndorf.   Gustav Adolph KUCHEL who married BRAENDLER ....Gustav farmed near Hahndorf and at Flatly

10 children were born 1872 - 1891 Photograph date unknown
Johanne Louise LIEBELT	John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material	Johann Gottlieb  KUCHEL

Their 10 children:    

├──   Anna Bertha  [1872-1938] married 13 September 1899, at residence of parents, nr Hahndorf, William Charles  COLLINS  [1872-1942]  had 8 children between 1900-1913. 

├──   Gustav Adolph  [1873-1931]  married 6 August 1903, St Paul's Church, Hahndorf, Louise Martha BRAENDLER [1879-1944], had 10 children between 1905-1920. 

├──   Johanne Caroline  [1875-1876]  

├──   Johann Gottlieb  [1877- 1951] married.9 June 1910, residence of R.H. Coles, Hahndorf, Marie Bertha SCHMEISS [1886-1974] had 4 children 1911-1926. 

├──   Gottfried Alfred [1879-1967] married 19 January 1920 St Michael Church, Hahndorf by Pastor BRAUER, Rose Therese Irene HENNINGSEN [1888-1975] had 7 children  1911-1928 

├──   Maria Emma [1881-1923] married 11 April 1912, St Paul's Church, Hahndorf, Wilhelm Albert EY [1883-1964] had 3 children 1912-1919. 

├──   Pauline Hulda [1883-1957] married 10 April 1913, St Paul's Church, Hahndorf, Edward Otto MUELLER [1882-1954] had 4 children 1914-1925. 

├──   Martha Mathilda [1886-1887]. 

├──   Johanna Louise  [1888-... ]married 23 April 1914 St Paul's Church, Hahndorf,  Ernest  NELSON  [1892 -1956]  had 3 children 1915-1924.

└──   Johann Friedrich Wilhelm [1891-1960] never married  

Golden Wedding photograph 1921 surrounded by their 7 of their 8 surviving children.

KUCHEL Golden Wedding photograph 1921
John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material.		Add a caption
Above:

• 4 boys & 4 girls survived to adulthood

2.   Anna Bertha KUCHEL 1st child 

Marriage 13 September 1899.  8 children born between 1900-1913
Anna Bertha KUCHEL Born:  15 April 1872 Married: 13 September 1899 at residence of parents nr Hahndorf. Anna & William were both 27 years of age Died: 4 August 1938 66 years.	John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material   Photograph by Bertha's uncle, Edmund DIEDERICH.	William Charles COLLINS Born: 14 June 1872 Widowed: 4 August 1938 66 years Died: 25 December 1942 70 years.

Their 8 children:  

├──  Harry Charles COLLINS 1900-1978, married 27 July 1927, to Irene Myrtle Osma KORBER 1901-1994, they had 3 children 1928-1932.

├──  Anna Mathilde COLLINS 1901-1967, married 31 August 1927, Ambleside, to William Woodworth CHRISTIAN 1883-1953, they had 1 child b 1931

├──  Alfred James COLLINS 1903-1975, married .......Doris Julia WIGGE, they had 5 daughters between 1946-1961.

├──  Ernest Louis COLLINS 1905-1973, married Veronica Jean WILSON 1911-2006, had 3 children.

├──  Edwin William COLLINS 1907-1982

├──  William George COLLINS 1909-1958 married Winifred May NORTON 1917-1979, they had 4 children.

├──  Alick Benjamin COLLINS 1911, married Rubina Nora LINDNER 1907-1991, they had 2 boys.

└──  Emma Rose COLLINS 1913-1994, married Eric Julius WITTWER 1910-1997, they had 3 children

Bertha KUCHEL & William COLLINS, & 3 of their children possibly 1st born Harry Charles b1900, 2nd child Anna Mathilde b1901 and Alfred James b1903. Photograph c1906
John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Materials	Photograph by Bertha's uncle, Edmund DIEDERICH, identified by the stamp on the reverse ''Australian Photographer, portraits in any weather.'  Bill Collins	Photograph by Bertha's uncle, Edmund DIEDERICH.  William & Betha Collins	John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Materials

3.  Old man COLLINS & Hans HEYSEN 

From 1908-1912 the COLLINS family shared Billy-Goat Lane, now known as English Street, with new Hahndorf resident, Hamburg born Hans HEYSEN & his Adelaide born wife Selma BARTELS and their first four children:  Josephine b1906, Elfreda b1908, Lilian b1909 & Nora b1911 for 5 years.  They were very close in ages to the 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th COLLINS children: Ernest Louis b1905, Edwin William b1907, William George  b1909, & Alick  Benjamin COLLINS b1911.

In 1908 Hans HEYSEN was 30 years of age, 5 years younger than William COLLINS who already had 3 of their 8 children. Sally BARTELS was born in  1878 so she was 29 years of age and Anna Bertha KUCHEL was the same age as her husband, both being 36 years old in 1908.

Byways and Highways by Reg BUTLER

In Reg BUTLER's, 'Byways and Highways', written 1992 he tells us the origin of Collins Street which in 1926 was an unnamed farm allotment track.  

'In 1899, Bill Collins, an English emigrant, married Bertha KUCHEL, a grand daughter of Hahndorf's foundation KUCHEL and LIEBELT families.  He became a favourite model for Hans HEYSEN, who, for a period, lived across English Street from the COLLINs' home.  

A former cal-de-sac, Collins Street now runs through several allotments owned by Bill COLLINS' son, Edwin, before these were further sub-divided into standard suburban building sites.  Locals informally labelled the former track as Lünert's Bake Oven Road, because the family of Robert LÜNERT had its outdoor bake oven nearby.  Although the name had come into use a few years previously, the Mount Barker District Council recognised Collins street on 6 May 1974.'  

https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/09/25/2374431.htm

  "The Way Home" is a beautiful oil painting which still belongs to the family and depicts the lane where Heysen first lived in Hahndorf.  It features "Old Man Collins" who was a model used in many of HEYSEN's works. 

Albert (sic) COLLINS lived across the road and was paid a shilling each time by HEYSEN and became quite a village celebrity.  His son Harry COLLINS was also portrayed in the works of Hans HEYSEN."

This extract can be found in Adelaide Hills localwiki 'The Cedars - Additional Information by Allan CAMPBELL the Curator of the Cedars. 

https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/The_Cedars_-_Additional_Information

'2012 marks the Centenary of the Heysen Family’s ownership of The Cedars at Hahndorf.  Hans Heysen purchased the property in 1912 as a direct result of a highly successful exhibition of his work in Melbourne.

At this time, Hans and Sallie Heysen were already residing in Hahndorf having in 1908 negotiated a four year lease on a cottage in English Street (then called Billygoat Lane).  They had long admired the property knows as The Cedars as they frequently passed it on route to the Ambleside Railway siding

The Governor and his wife brought Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, to The Cedars (apparently at his request) to spend an hour looking through the Heysen studios and residence.  There are , of course, quite a number of Heysen originals in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace in London, as many of the visiting royals were presented with a painting by Sir Hans as a memento of their visit to Australia.  The Duke was most interested to know that a study in pastel of Old Man Collins of English Street was given as a gift to his grandmother, Queen Mary, by Dame Nellie Melba ..... he was inspecting a small exhibition of Heysen's drawings in the main studio of William Collins, who was a favoured subject of Hans Heysen as they lived opposite one another in English Street for the four years that the Heysen Family resided in the village itself.  The artist paid Collins the princely sum of one shilling to model for him!
After leaving The Cedars, the vice regal party took their royal visitor up to The Lane for a wine tasting!

In the words of Colin Thiele, Heysen’s biographer ... “With delays and innovations, it wasn’t until the end of February, 1913 ... six months after the move from Billygoat Lane (English Street) ... that Hans was able to enter his new studio for the first time.  It must have been a heart-warming moment.  Here at last, he had everything just as he wanted it ... peace, solitude, graciousness, simplicity.  It was a gentle place; a studio with warmth of spirit ... high walls, clear natural light, friendly materials, quiet surrounds.  A studio that a landscape artist more than any other could lose his heart to.  A place where he could paint”.

During the 4-5 years, 1908-1912 that the HEYSEN'S & COLLINS families were neighbours Bill COLLINS was aged 36-41 years and son Harry COLLINS was 8-12 years old
'Old Man Collins', 1911, pastel.	'The Axeman,' Bill Collins, 1910, charcoal on paper.	'Harry Collins of Billy-Goat Lane'	'Collins jnr, Flute Player'  1908, charcoal and pastel on dark buff paper

Photograph 1925c
John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Materials.  Photograph by Edmund DIEDERICH		Bertha KUCHEL & William COLLINS  both aged approximately 51 years with all of their 8 children, 2 girls and 6 boys, ca 1925. Back row Lt-Rt:Alfred James Harry Ernest Louis  and Edwin William Emma Rose William, COLLINS, Bertha KUCHEL, Alick Benjamin & William George It this was taken in 1923 there youngest child Emma Rose born in 1913 would be 10 years old & Alick the next youngest would be 12 years old born in 1911

Harry Charles COLLINS 1st child
Harry Charles COLLINS Born: 16 February 1900 Hahndorf      Married: 27 July 1927 Died 1978 aged 77 years   Irene Myrtle Osma KORBER Born: 1901 Widowed 1978 at age 77 years Died 1994 aged 93 years	John Mueller Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection J Reverse: 'Harry Collins'	John Mueller Photographic & Other Archival Materials Collection:  'To Uncle Bill from Harry & Rene 27 July 1927'

Alfred James COLLINS 3rd child of Anna Bertha KUCHEL & William Charles COLLINS
Born:  1903   Married: ………. Doris Julia WIGGE   Widowed:    Died: 1975  72 years old

All 3 photographs are taken on the same verandah steps.  Where is this home?

• Harry COLLINS, his brother Alf COLLINS & Freida MÜLLER.
• Is ‘Freida’, Alfreda Marie 'Freida' MÜLLER, 2nd child of 'Minnie' Meyer &  Alf Müller but if so ..... she is not related to the COLLINS children.

Alick COLLINS 7th child of Anna Bertha KUCHEL & William Charles COLLINS

John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Materials. Reverse: Alick.

Born: 14 June 1872 Married: ……. Rubina Nora LINDNER    "Original Property - Hahndorf Bowling Club. This land was originally owned by Alick Benjamin COLLINS and consisted of allotments 115, 116 and 117 of Section 4002 which were sold by him for use by the Hahndorf Bowling Club and Hahndorf Senior Citizens for their subsequent community use - refer to HBC - Ownership & Early History for further details."

4.    Gustav Adolph KUCHEL 2nd child

The story of this barn with bent braces

Identified by Lothar BRASSE there are only 2 surviving barns which have this unique feature of bent red gum braces in their timber framing.  Lothar has used this photograph and his previous research to conclude that this building, a barn (and now a home & lived in) is found on the Section.... off Darby Rd, near Hahndorf.

This wedding photograph taken 6 August 1903 was directly in front of a barn off Darby Rd.
Reverse:  'Gustav KUCHEL wedding'
Photo by Edmund DIEDERICH, uncle to Gustav Adolph KUCHEL	Who owned this farm & barn in 1903? How is the owner related to the KUCHEL or BRAENDLER family?

Gustav Adolph KUCHEL's wife was Louise Martha BRAENDLER, 4th child of Johanne Louise Karoline PAECH & Augustus Guido BRAENDLER who married at the St Michael's Church, Hahndorf 6 August 1869.  Louise's grandparents had built, in the 1850c's, what is known as 'Paechtown house no 3' and they had four daughters, see family tree:.

Grandparents of Louise Martha BRAENDLER

Johann Gottlob PAECH 1824 Prussian-1912  arrived on the ship Zebra in 1838, married 10 December 1846 Hahndorf schoolroom, to Johanne Eleonore SCHULZ b1825 Prussia-1897, arrived on ship Zebra as well. 

• ​Their 1st child was the mother of Louise Martha BRAENDLER  = Johanne Louise Karoline PAECH (1848-1924) b nr Hahndorf, SA, married 6 August 1869 St Michael's Church, Hahndorf to Augustus Guido BRAENDLER (1843-1925) b Prussia.
• Johanne Eleanore PAECH (1851-1939) b nr Hahndorf, SA, married 21 Feb 1879 St Michael's Church, Hahndorf to  Johann Carl Ferdinand MÜLLER (1851-1928). This couple inherited 'Paechtown house no 3.'
• Martha PAECH (1854-1939) b Adelaide, SA, married 8 July 1874 St Michael's Ev Lutheran Church, Hahndorf to Paul BRAENDLER (1850-1937).  August Guido BRAENDLER is an older brother to Paul BRAENDLER, two brothers married 2 sisters.

1.    Discussion of the  ‘Rentschener’ PAECH family & the ‘Kaysher’ PAECH family.

2.    Analysis of the Darby Road ‘barn’ by Lothar Brasse, Architect & Heritage Consultant.

All photos, slides & architectural analysis  by Lothar BRASSE

  This is the home of Johann Friedrich PAECH

Snr, 'Rentschener PAECH',  built 1850's off Darby Rd.

Same building, once a barn now a home
No 1	No 2	No 3
1.      Photograph by Lothar BRASSE 1970's when it was clad in corrugated iron 2.     Diagram by Lothar BRASSE of the redgum timbers of same building 3.     This is the opposite end of the 'barn' [with a chimney added & the corrugated iron removed] now converted into a family home. Sold  as 'FAERHMANN's Barn' 2021, by real estate agent, Nina Bidgood who grew up in this home. It was known by her as 'Battle farm.' Note the now exposed half timbered framework and unique bent bracing timbers.

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This is the same barn as used for the backdrop of the 1903 wedding photo above with the wedding party superimposed on the structure.

Children:   10  children born between 1905-1920

├──  Benjamin Theodor 1905-1967, married Doris Edna CARPENTER 26 June 1935

├──  Oswald Adolf Paul b1906,  married Dorothy Nellie MAGOR 15 October 1932├──  Christoph Otto Alfred b1907, married Coralie Edith WILLIS 193

 ├──  Edward Wilhelm 1909-1962 married Beatrice Annie MENADUE 27 March 193

├──  Gustav Adolph 1911-1911

├──  Martha Louise b1911  married Gordon Lindsay WHITE

├──  Alwina Selma b1912 married Lorenz Edwin ZILM  

├──  Alfred Paul 1915-1963, married Nellie Clare HUNTER nee HENTY

├──  Herbert Arthur b1916  married Gwen Ambrose Pearce CLOUGH

└──  Gordon Albert b1920 married Audrey Charlotte PARBS

Photographs  

Gustav Adolph KUCHEL with pony, and Louise Martha BRAENDLER on verandah, with 4 of their children playing in the grass, ca1912.	Gustav Adolph KUCHEL standing, and Louise Martha BRAENDLER with large hat, sitting, & 4 small boys ca 1912.
	John Mueller Photographic & Other Archival Material Collection
Lt-Rt Possibly a brother of Johanne Louise LIEBELT, perhaps Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL b1853 who m Johanna Dorothea SAWADE b1858 Gustav Adolph KUCHEl & Louise Martha BRAENDLER Gustav's younger sister Pauline Hulda KUCHEL who married in 1913 to Edward Otto MUELLER. Gustav's sister in law Marie Bertha SCHMEISS who married in 1910 Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL, they had their 1st child in September 1911. Gustav's younger sister Johanna Lois KUCHEL m 1914 to Ernest NELSON. Gustav's younger brother J Gottlieb KUCHEL whose wife is Marie Bertha SCHMEISS.  Gustav Adolph KUCHEL standing 2nd from left, and Louise 'Martha' BRAENDLER ca1912.  Parents & children in same clothing and hats as photo on left. 4 small boys are possibly Benjamin Theodor Gustav b1905, Oswald Adolf Paul b1906, Christoph Otto Alfred b1907 and Edward Wilhelm Kuchel  b1909

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		Gustav's Aunty Mrs Diederich, is Anna Elizabeth KUCHEL who married Edmund DIEDERICH in 1891.
Reverse: 'Mrs Diederich and Gustav Kuchel's family'

  Reverse: 'Gustav Kuchel, home Hahndorf' 

1909c

'John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material'Gustav Adolph KUCHEL and Louise Martha BRAENDLER with possibly the first four boys, ca 1909, all under four years of age.

Reverse: Gustav & Martha KUCHEL'

Silver Wedding Celebrations 1903-1928.
	l Slide by J B HAYNES	John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material
	Gustav Adolph KUCHEL  and Louise Martha BRAENDLER in centre front. The eldest boys are Benjamin 23, Oswald 22, Christoph 21 & Edward 19 years. The young women are Martha 17 & Alwina 16 years. Alfred in the centre is 13 years & Herbert is 12 & Gordon 8 years.	Reverse: 'Gustav KUCHEL Silver Wedding' Gustav Adolph KUCHEL  and Louise Martha BRAENDLER in centre front.

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