LIEBELT & KUCHEL

'John MUELLER Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material'

Maria Emma KUCHEL

6th child of:  Johanna Louise LIEBELT and Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL

married

Wilhelm Albert EY

Pauline Hulda KUCHEL 

7th child of:  Johanna Louise LIEBELT and Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL

married

Edward Otto MUELLER

LIEBELT - KUCHEL  married:   EY & MUELLER

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.  

......Gottlieb's daughter, Hulda, married Otto Mueller, who was a farmer at Paechtown, near Hahndorf.  They lived in one of the original timber framed and brick houses in the area. (Paechtown).  

Married 11 April 1912.

  Evangelical Lutheran St Paul’s Church, Hahndorf

Maria Emma KUCHEL

Born: 16 August 1881

    Died: 1923  41 years old 

Married: Maria was 30 years & Wilhelm Albert EY 29 years,

Wilhelm Albert EY

Born 30 January 1883
Widowed 1923 aged 
Died 27 May 1964
aged 40

Reverse ‘Albert EY & Emma’. 

John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material

John Mueller Photographic Collection & Other Archival Material

Children:    3 children born between 1912-1919

     ├──  Albert William [1912]  

├──  Hilda Emma [1917] married Leslie George LEATCH. 

     └── Rita Mavis [1919] married Kenneth Alfred WAKEFIELD 

Reverse: Hulda Rita EY                                                                        Reverse:  Hilda EY

"Tag der Confirmation für Pauline Hulda KUCHEL Geboren 16 October 1883, confirmirt den 1 Advent 1896 in der Kirche St Michael of Hahndorf."

Reverse: 'O MARTIN & O MUELER''

German language Taufe cards for Edwin Carl MUELLER, 

"From Wilhelm Alfred MUELLER"

who {m Wilhelmine MEYER 1903] is an Uncle to Edwin Carl MUELLEAr 

Confirmation photo on far right

Back row:

Mavis BRAENDLER, Elsie HOLLAND, Dora KUCHEL, Ida MENZEL, Ella BRAENDLER.

Front row:

Alf KUCHEL, Alf MUELLER, Pastor BRAUER, Edwin MUELLER

Mavis BRAENDLER is Mavis Ida BRAENDLER b1913 & Ella BRAENDLER is Ella Eveyline BRANDLER b1910,

older sister to Mavis, daughters of Friedrich Wilhelm BRAENDLER b1878 & Alma Othilie GREGOR b1880.

Alf MUELLER is Alfred Heinrich MUELLER b1914, son of Wilhelm Alf MULLER b1879  & Wilhelmine MEYER b1883.

Edwin MUELLER b1914 is a 1st cousin to Alf MUELLER and is the first child of Wilhelm's younger brother Edward Otto b 1882, & Pauline Hulda KUCHEL b1883

Dora KUCHEL b1914 is the daughter of Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL b1877 & Marie Bertha SCHMEISS b1886.

Alf KUCHEL is Alfred Paul KUCHEL b1915 a son to Gustav Adolph KUCHEL & Louise Martha BRAENDLER.

"From Emma EY, Ambleside" who is Maria Emma KUCHEL, [m Wilhelm Albert EY 1921]

& is an Aunt to Clarence MUELLER

 "From Harry Charles COLLINS" who  [m Irene KORBER 1927]

& 1st cousin to Clarence MUELLER

Confirmation 1940

Hilda Mueller, born 11 February 1925, baptised

1 March 1925, confirmed at St Paul's Evangelical

Lutheran Church, Hahndorf, on  6 Sunday

after Trinity on 30 June 1940, by W.E. PETERING, Pastor.

John I need to retake this photo

These 3 photographs of the Edwin 9years & Clarence 7 years old with Hilda  b11 Feb 1925, [Hilda is the mother of John MUELLER who owns this historic collection] were taken all on the one day in the front yard of their home at Paechtown, near Hahndorf.  Their home, built in the 1850's, when sold by Hilda &  her son John,  was renovated then completely burnt down in the bushfire of .....and then rebuilt by the original renovator, Ron ROWE, using the exact same dimension as the original home including the bricks that could be recycled. 

Johanne Eleanore PAECH husband Carl Ferdinand MUELLER  and their 2 children.

Wilhelm Alfred 'Alf' on the left and newborn, Edward Otto  being held by Eleanore. 1882c.

Reverse: 'E MUELLER nee PAECH'

Reverse: 'Mr & Mrs W.A. MUELLER'

1st child Dora Alvine MUELLER 

1931

2nd child Alfreda Marie MUELLER 

1929

2nd child Alfreda Marie known as 'Frieda' 

? Taken on Confirmation Day

3rd child Alwyn Carl MUELLER

1935

Confirmation photo
Back row:
Mavis BRAENDLER, Elsie HOLLAND, Dora KUCHEL, Ida MENZEL, Ella BRAENDLER.
Front row:
Alf KUCHEL, Alf MUELLER, Pastor BRAUER, Edwin MUELLER

^{'E&L Nelson' by Thelma-Duryea, Adelaide}

^{Wedding photo taken by Edmund Diederich, Louise's uncle,} 

^{'J.G. & J.L. Kuchel'}

^{These 2 slides on right attempt to identify the people present at the wedding}

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.  Gustav farmed near Hahndorf and at Flatly; Fred's main hobby was grafting and budding roses; Wilhelm was engaged in farming the original property at Friedrichstadt; and Gottlieb's son Gottlieb was also a farmer.

Gottlieb's daughter, Hulda, married Otto Mueller, who was a farmer at Paechtown, near Hahndorf.  They lived in one of the original timber framed and brick houses in the area. (Paechtown).  Another daughter, Louise, married Ernest Nelson, who farmed and worked at Murray Bridge.  She is the only surviving child of Gottlieb and Louise, and still lives at Murray Bridge.  Her sons have built up a well-known carrying business in that town. Gottlieb's daughter Emma married Albert Ey.  They lived at Lobethal and Summertown.  His daughter Bertha married William Collins and lived at Hahndorf.  

Gottlieb's daughter Elizabeth was the first person to be buried in the new Hahndorf cemetery on 11 April 1883.  Another child, Martha Mathilda, died at the age of 2. The second son of Johann Gottfried was named Johann Gottfried, after his father.  He died in 1850 at the age of 2.  "The third son Johann Friedrich) was known as Hanfried.  He was almost 50 when he married Emma Kubern. (As a girl of 14 years, she travelled from Germany to join her two sisters in Australia.) They lived at Sawmill Gully, near Hahndorf, ad had five children.  Hanfried died in 1909 when the youngest child was only a few years old.  He was buried next to his mother in the Hahndorf Cemetery.  Hanfried's eldest daughter, Caroline Dorothy, died at the age of 20.  His two surviving children (Alma Zeunert and Clara Woolley) both reside in Murray Bridge.  Alma's son, Ray, is a welfare officer for Aborigines with the Lutheran Church in Brisbane.  (Kuchel page 7).

The only daughter of Gottfried born in Australia (Elizabeth) married Edmund Diederich.  She died on 27 August, 1932, at the age of 78 years.  Her husband had emigrated from Hamburg, where he had a photographic studio.  In Australia he built a travelling studio and took many photographs at various places.  He kept a pictorial record of the Hahndorf of yesteryear.  He attended most of the weddings, anniversaries, family gatherings, and funerals, taking photographs which are fascinating to those interested in our early history.  Their son, Wilhelm, lived at Riverton and is now in Adelaide.  Their daughter, Ida, married Samuel Scharenberg.  She still lives in the cottage occupied by her parents near Hahndorf.  For the christening at Lobethal she was taken by her father and mother from Hahndorf in a dray pulled by a team of bullocks.  These bullocks were bred from a heifer given to Johanne Dorothea (Johanne Gottfried's wife) by her sister, Mrs Maria Elizabeth Liebelt (nee Kuchel).  Mrs Liebelt (born on 11 January 1798, died on 2nd August, 1879) was an early immigrant. (Kuchel page 6 an)