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KLENKE, RICHTER & PAECH Lothar BRASSE & Janis HAYNES:  Land, genealogy & Prussian buildings Johanna Karoline KLENKE Eldest child of Anna Elisabeth GIERKE & Christian KLENKE 1st wife Hannah Rosina RICHTER unknown parents  2nd wife  Johann Georg PAECH Snr Child of Wilhelm PAECH of Paechtown house No 1 1 of the 4 Paechtown homes built by Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN of Tangermünde, Brandenburg, Germany

 

Paechtown house 1

To return to:     Lothar BRASSE summary       Paechtown houses 1-4       Paechtown house 2      Paechtown house 3.      Paechtown house 4

 

Summary:  

I outline below why Lothar BRASSE & I believe this house was built for Georg PAECH Snr between 1850-1853 by Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN of Tangermuende.

I look at the Paech passenger relationships on the Zebra and go further into this background in LANGER & PAECH

I look at the family relationships of Johann George PAECH's first wife Johanna Caroline KLENKE, and her sisters.

 

Family Names related to RICHTER & PAECH

AURICHT, BIRD, BROCK, BURLS, GIERKE, FISHLOCK, FLOECHEL, FLIERL, GILES, GREGOR, JAENSCH, JENNINGS, KENNY, KLENKE, KRAMMER,  KUCHEL, LIEBELT, LUBASCH, MÜLLER, PÄCH, POHL, RODERT, THIELE, WILLEMER.

 

Table of Content

1.  Who built the Paechtown Fachwerk houses?

2.  Johann Georg PAECH Snr headstone

3.  PAECH/KLENKE/RICHTER/SCHULZ/JAENSCH/THIELE

4.  GIERKE/KUCHEL

5.  Their land allocated in Hahndorf & how long did they stay?

6.  KLENKE/JAENSCH & KLENKE/THIELE

7.  PAECH & PAECH/SCHULZ & PAECH

8.  Following the 1st wife's children.  KLENKE

9.  Following the 2nd wife's children.  RICHTER

10. Friedrichstadt then Paechtown

11.  When did J Georg PAECH Snr move to Paechtown?

 

1.   Who built the Paechtown Fachwerk houses?   

A tape recorded interview 1975, that Lothar & Heidi BRASSE translated & transcribed in early 2024, indicates that the master carpenter of these Paechtown homes was Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN who arrived in South Australia in 1849. 

 

2.  Johann Georg PAECH Snr (1793-1875) headstone in Hahndorf

This head stone has been moved from its original burial position and now lies broken & on the ground, immediately behind St Paul's Church, Hahndorf.

CHATGTP has been used exclusively in the transcribing, translating & summarising of these 2 images, on 13 April 2025 by Janis Haynes 

Photograph by J Haynes St Paul's CemeteryPhotograph by J Haynes St Paul's Cemetery

German Transcription:  Hier ruhet im Herrn. Gest. 1875 Johann George Paech  Er ward geboren in Aber-Gaven und starb bei Hahndorf den 25 Nov. 1875 Im Alter v. 82 Jahren   Sein Andenken.  bleibt im Segen bei seinenhinterlassenen Gattin.  Kindern. Enkel. u. Urenkeln. 1 Mose 18.19

 

English Translation:  Here rests in the Lord  Died 1875  JOHANN GEORGE  PAECH  He was born  in Ober-Guren and  died near Hahndorf  on 25 Nov. 1875  at the age of 82 years  His memory  remains blessed among his surviving wife  children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren  Genesis 18:19

 

 

Summary:

• 'The inscription is weathered and cracked, so it's hard to be completely sure.  
• Based on the shape of the letters, "Aber-Guren" or "Ober-Guren" it is likely an alternative or simplified spelling of  "Ober-Guhren", which was common in the 1800s.
• "Ober" in German means "Upper", so "Ober-Guhren" would be "Upper Guhren" - a common naming pattern in German villages.
• The carved script on old gravestone can easily make a capital "O" look like an "A", especially after weathering.  
• "Aber-Guhren" may have meant near Guhren" or possibly "in the area of Guhren."    
• Spelling wasn't standardised and carvers often wrote phonetically - especially in regional dialects.  
• The village is still almost certainly Ober-Guhren, a known location near Rentschen and Kay in Brandenburg.  
• The gravestone spelling reflects how it was spoken or locally written at the time, not necessarily the official Prussian spelling.

'Ober-Guhren' confirmed by Alan WITTWER

	Alan WITTWER compiled this St Paul's & St John's Church, cemetery research.  He documents that Georg PAECH Snr was indeed born in 'Ober-Guhren' as seen one his tombstone.   'PAECH Johann George (sic) 23 May 1793 at Ober-Guhren, Province Brandenburg. Emigrated  from Kay, arriving in January 1839 on the 'Zebra'.  First wife, nee KLENKE, died in Germany.  Second wife, Anna Rosina nee RICHTER, buried in the Hahndorf Public Cemetery, d 26 November 1875.  Buried on 28 December 1875 by his son in law Pastor J.C. Auricht.  Tombstone exists.

Where is Ober Gühren?

https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20603067From this map you can see Kay (now known as Kije in Poland) the village Georg PAECH Snr left from to come to S.A. and Ober Guhren (now known as Gòrzykowo, Poland) is where he was born.  There is about 2kms between these two villages.

 

 

3.   PAECH/KLENKE/RICHTER/SCHULZ/JAENSCH/THIELE  

David Schubert's Kavel's PeopleKavel's People page 166David SCHUBERT in his 1985 book 'Kavel's People' identified names, ages & occupation of the likely inclusion of passengers on the individual ships Prince Georg, Catharina, Zebra & the Bengalee which all arrived in late 1838 early 1839.  

Kavel's People page 166SCHUBERT has them listed as passengers on the Zebra, George is 45 years of age, a farmer and he has arrived with his 2nd wife Anna Rosina nee RICHTER.  Children from the 1st marriage to his wife nee KLENKE are Christian 18, Gottlob 15, George 12 and Luise 8.

From the 2nd marriage there is Maria Elisabeth 4, Friedrich 2 and it is documented that they came from the village of Kay.

The eldest son from the 1st marriage Gottfried remained behind to complete military service and apparently caught a ship to S.A. 3 years later, in 1841.  This PAECH family were amongst the earliest pioneers of Hahndorf and later created what is referred to as 'Paechtown'.

Georg PAECH Snr arrived with 6 children, his 2nd wife and his oldest son, was it seems, reluctantly left in Brandenburg, Prussia. 

'KLENKE'  Kavel's People page 166.'SCHULZ'  Kavel's People page 167 On the Zebra, along with this PAECH family from 'Kay,' came one from 'Nickern:' 2 adults & 3 children, one from 'Rentschen:' 2 adults & 5 children, and a SCHULZ (left) from 'Rentschen' who was a sister (with 2 children) to the PAECH family from the same village.  

Georg PAECH Snr was the oldest PAECH amongst the passengers and his eldest sons were a couple of years older than the other PAECH children.  Of the 16 PAECH/SCHULZ children, 15 were under 16 years of age and they were among the 96 total children on the Zebra who were under 16 years of age.  

Also on the Zebra were the parents of Georg PAECH Snr, 1st wife Johanna Caroline KLENKE.  They were (above right) Christian KLENKE, 51, a day labourer who died on the voyage, his wife Anna Elisabeth GIERKE 49 years, their daughter Johanne Dorothea 21 years and this family had also come from Kay and they settled in Hahndorf.  Christian KLENKE & Anna Elisabeth GIERKE had 4 daughters & here is how the last two women arrived in South Australia.  

JAENSCH Kavel's People page 165Also on the Zebra is a 3rd daughter of Christian KLENKE & Anna Elisabeth GIERKE's, Maria Elisabeth KLENKE 39 years who had married Christian JAENSCH 40 in Prussia and with them came there 6 children, also from Kay.  According to Kavel's People they settled first in Hahndorf and later in Grünthal.

Not on the Zebra, but on the Prince George came Johanne Dorothea KLENKE with her husband Christian THIELE with two of her children from a previous marriage to ZEINERT.  This family also came from Kay. 

 

4.  GIERKE/KUCHEL

Anna Elisabeth GIERKE buried at St John's Cemetery

		Alan WITTWER compiled this St Paul's & St John's Church, cemetery research.     Here he states:  KLENKE Anna Elisabeth ca 1788 as Anna Elisabeth GIERKE, married Christian KLENKE, a shoemaker.  Emigrated from Kay, Province Brandenburg, arriving on the 'Zebra' in January 1839.
Her husband died and was buried at sea.  Lived with her daughter, Mrs Samuel KUCHEL, at Hahndorf & Kirchengergen.  D 18 March 1869 aged 81 years at Kirchenbergen.  Buried by Pastor G.L.A. FIEDLER.

https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20603067John Mueller Photographic Collection 'Samuel KUCHEL'Anna Elisabeth KLENKE nee GIERKE had lost a daughter at 38 years of age in Prussia,1831c (Georg Snr 1st wife) & then on the voyage to a new country her husband died on the Zebra.  

With them came, another daughter, Johanna Dorothea KLENKE, who married within months of arrival to Samuel KUCHEL who had arrived on the Prince George from the village of Langmeil, Zullichau-Schwiebus, Frankfurt, Brandenburg, Preussen.  

Langmeil is now known as Okunin in Poland, it is only 2.5 kms south east of Klemzig (Klępsk, Poland).  Langmeil, where Samuel KUCHEL came from is about 12kms from Kay where his wife came from.  

Anna Elisabeth KLENKE is not allocated any allotment in Hahndorf although an allocation goes the widow Dorothea SCHULZ, sister to Friedrich PAECH.  

 

5.   Their land allocated in Hahndorf & how long did they stay.

I have used extracts from Reg BUTLER's Founding Families research https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Hahndorf_Founding_Families_-_Place_of_Residence as well as his Hahndorf Allotment Database to provide the information about where these passengers settled in Hahndorf & how long did they stay there.   

Johann Georg PAECH Snr 1839-1853 in Hahndorf what then?

Johann Georg PAECH Snr from Kay is allocated 37 Main St Hahndorf & he left for Friedrichstadt before 1853, almost 15 years after arrival in S.A.  Up until 1846 and perhaps even 1850 the children of the 1st marriage would have lived with their father and step mother in Hahndorf.  Living there as well were the younger children, 5 of them at least all on this property.  With the younger two being born in 1849 & 1851.  Did Christian & Gottlob bring their brides there to live as well in 1846 & 1848?

 

1853.   Georg was now 60 years of age & his wife, aged 42, has had another 5 children in S.A.  There children/step children were J Christian 32, J Gottlob 29, J Georg 27, Luisa 23, Maria 19, Friedrich 17, August 12, Wilhelm 9, Karoline 7 & Traugott 4 and  Eleonore 2 years of age.

J Christian had married in 1848 & had the 1st of 3 children, J Gottlob had married in 1846 & had 2 of his 4 girls, J Georg had married in 1850 & had 2 of his 7 children & the youngest Luise had married in 1851 & had 1 of her 8 children.  

Presumably these couples were all living independently in 1853 (assumption, not evidenced) when Georg & Hanna Rosina RICHTER moved out of Hahndorf, to farm land within Friedrichstadt, with only the 7 of her own children.  

 

Johann Friedrich PAECH 1839-1853 in Hahndorf what then?

Johann Friedrich PAECH from Rentschen is allocated 48 English St Hahndorf & left for Grünthal & Friedrichstadt before 1853 almost 15 years after arrival, Friedrich was now 50 years of age, the same as his wife, and they had no further children in S.A.  Their children were J Friedrich Wilhelm 27, J August 25 & J Friedrich Jr 16 years of age.  J Dorothea & J Gottlieb both died in 1838, at 7 & 3 years of age on the Zebra voyage.  

J Friedrich Wilhelm had married in 1851 & had the 1st of the 13 children.  In 1853 Friedrich PAECH Snr established his eldest son on a property previously known as Oatlands & now referred to as Ravenswood. To follow:  J Friedrich Wilhelm PAECH's  journey at 17 Ravenswood Lane.

 J August had married in 1853 & went on to have 10 children.  J Friedrich did not marry until 1860 so would have been the only child still at home with his parents. This is the son that inherited the Friedrichstadt farm and past it onto his eldest child. 

 

 

 

 

Friedrich PAECH 1839-1858 in Hahndorf what then?

Friedrich PAECH from Nickern is allocated 11 Victoria St Hahndorf married to Johanne Louise JACHNING & they had 3 daughters all born in Prussia. Friedrich died suddenly in 1858.  His eldest daughter Johanna Karoline married Johann Friedrich Traugott JAENSCH in 1853.  

 

Traugott's  mother was Anna Elisabeth KLENKE from Kay, a younger sister to the 1st wife of Georg PAECH Snr, and an older sister to J Dorothea Agnes KLENKE who married J Christian THIELE, as well as J Dorothea KLENKE who married J Samuel KUCHEL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorothea Elisabeth SCHULZ 1839-1866 in Hahndorf what then?

Dorothea Elisabeth SCHULZ, sister to Friedrich PAECH is allocated 8 Victoria St Hahndorf died (at Friedrichstadt) in 1866 at 69 years of age & this was when her land was sold.  It was her only daughter J Eleonore SCHULZ at 21 years of age who married Georg PAECH Snr's son, J Gottlob in 1846 & together they had 4 daughters.  Possibly J Gottlob PAECH moved onto the small property at 8 Victoria St prior to moving out to a larger farm at Friedrichstadt.  Of Dorothea son, J Gotthilf I have yet to find any information.  It is possible that from 1853 when the PAECH's moved south that she lived alone in Hahndorf.  I believe she died at Friedrichstadt, perhaps at her brothers place or her daughters?

 

 

This is what Reg BUTLER wrote about her circumstances in https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Dwelling_-_Schulz_Cottage_-_Hahndorf. When Hermann KOOK laid out Hahndorf in 1839, the present allotment 13 was house allotment 8, out of a total of 54 lots reserved in this way.  A small family of  SCHULZes came to live here.  In Prussia, Dorothea SCHULZ, nee PAECH, had married the blacksmith Gottlob SCHULZ of Rentschen, in south-eastern Brandenburg.  Unfortunately, her husband died and Mrs SCHULZ also had to endure the persecution of her Lutheran faith during the 1830s.  At last, she and her children, Gotthilf and Eleonore, were able to emigrate aboard Captain Hahn's ship, the Zebra, to South Australia in 1838 to start a new life.  The SCHULZes were under the special care of Dorothea's brother, the influential farmer Friedrich PAECH, known in Hahndorf by his nickname Rentschener PAECH..

By 1853, Dorothea SCHULZ had paid off her debt on money borrowed to buy the land and she received a title for the property.  At Hahndorf, unfortunately Gotthilf SCHULZ died young.  His sister, Eleonore, married Gottlob PAECH, one of the Kayscher PAECHs of Paechtown, just over the hill from Friedrichstadt, where her Uncle Friedrich PAECH lived.  Eventually, Dorothea went to live with her daughter and their Hahndorf cottage fell vacant.

Probably, Mrs SCHULZ rented out the house, but none of the tenants’ names are now known for sure.  After the Widow SCHULZ's death, Carl WIRTH the mason bought the property, as possibly he had been renting it for some time beforehand.  He mortgaged the land to Adolph BARTELS, publican of the King of Hanover Hotel in Rundle Street and later Mayor of Adelaide and father-in-law to the well-known SA artist Sir Hans HEYSEN..

In the midst of the mortgage repayments, Bartels died and his executors later sold the property.  Probably, Wirth defaulted on his financial obligations.  Another widow bought the allotment.  Eleonore NITSCHKE, nee PAECH, had emigrated aboard the Zebra with the SCHULZES and married Wilhelm NITSCHKE, yet another of the passengers.  Mrs Nitschke's PAECH family were known as the Tischler Paechs, to distinguished them from the other PAECH families already mentioned.

During her short married life, Eleonore NITSCHKE lived on a farm at Nain, near Greenock, on the western borders of the Barossa Valley.  After her husband died suddenly in 1872, Eleonore brought her young children back to Hahndorf, where she washed clothes to raise money.  She lived in a cottage on No 15 Victoria Street, next door to the property she bought in 1882 after Carl WIRTH had defaulted in his mortgage repayments.

Upon Eleonore's death in 1916, her daughter, Bertha, inherited the Victoria Street allotments and came to live in the home at No 15 with her husband, the labourer and gardener Otto GALLASCH, and their children.  The land at No 13 eventually descended to some of the GALLASCH children.  After the last survivor of these, Vera POST, nee GALLASCH, died, her daughter Margaret TENTYE, nee POST,, sold the estate to Trent PAECH, who, as fate would have it, was a great-great-grandson of Friedrich PAECH, the brother of Mrs Dorothea SCHULZ, the first owner of the land.

 

Samuel KUCHEL 1839-1840 or 1845 or 1854 or  in Hahndorf what then?

Samuel KUCHEL from Langmeil who marries Anna Elisabeth KLENKE's daughter, Johanna Dorothea KLENEK,  is allocated 28 Main St Hahndorf which they leave by 1854 (see below) for Kirchenbergen 2 miles outside Hahndorf.  

Authors Note:  Reg BUTLER below says they married in September 1839, & also that 'Christian was born when the KUCHELs moved to a farm on Windmill Hill' , but, all of their children were born between 1840-1858 'Nr Hahndorf' & KUCHEL 1838-1970 Family History below says 'In 1845 they moved out to the farm known as Kirchenbergen'.   Anna Elisabeth  KLENKE nee GIERKE moves in with her daughter Johanna Dorothea & Samuel as she is not allocated any land in Hahndorf.   In 1854 Samuel KUCHEL is 39 years of age,  Johanna Dorothea KLENKE is 37 years & they have had 8 of their 10 children.  

 

 

Although Samuel had 2 other (younger) brothers the only other KUCHEL who was allocated land was his father George KUCHEL also from Langmeil.  Perhaps Samuel, because he very early upon arrival in S.A. married, was able to negotiate his own land where as his brothers who in 1839 were Johann Friedrich 21 years of age, & Johann Gottlieb 18 years of age, could not. 

Extract from College in the Wattles by Reg BUTLER, page 364.    KUCHEL Johann Christian.  Attended Hahndorf Academy in the 1860's.  Born 7 March 1851.  Died 9 July 1935.  Parents Samuel KUCHEL farmer Hahndorf & Dorothea KLENKE.  (Authors Note: their 7th of 10 children).  Both parents came from foundation Hahndorf families and after their marriage in September 1839, they set up housekeeping in a cottage on land where the first section of the Hahndorf Academy was built.  Christian was born when the KUCHELs moved to a farm on Windmill Hill between Hahndorf & Mt Barker.  (Further information provided but not directly relevant here).

Extract from KUCHEL 1838-1970 page 2Extract from KUCHEL 1838-1970 page 2KUCHEL Johanne Louise.  Attended Hahndorf Academy in the 1860's. Born 4 August 1853.  Died 30 April 1934.  Parents Samuel KUCHEL farmer Hahndorf & Dorothea KLENKE.  (Authors Note: their 8th of 10 children). an early life spent in service in various households, Louise married Gottlob BARTEL when she was living at Tablelands, a farming area near Neales Flat. Pastor STREMPEL conducted the ceremony at Callington where the bridge groom and others of the BARTEL and KUCHEL families farmed.  (Further information provided but not directly relevant here).

 

 

KUCHEl 1838-1970 Family History

Extract from KUCHEL 1838-1970 page 3.  Johann Samuel KUCHEL was born on 4th May, 1815. He married Johanne Dorothea KLENKE in September, 1839.  She had arrived in South Australia on 1st January, 1839, in the "Zebra". Her father had died at sea during the voyage.  Samuel and his wife lived at Klemzig for a short time and then moved to Hahndorf being among the first settlers that went there. They lived on the spot where the Hahndorf Academy now stands, which was the first land leased in South Australia. His signature can be seen in a book at the Hahndorf Gallery. In 1845 they moved out to the farm known as Kirchenbergen.   

 

Georg KUCHEL 1839-1845 in Hahndorf what then?

Georg KUCHEL from Langmeil, with his wife is allocated 41 English St Hahndorf .   In 1845 Samuel's older brother J Gottfried Erdmann KUCHEL arrived on the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel  with his wife J Dorothea Elisabeth KUCHEL & 4 daughters.  They went onto have another 4 children in S.A.  

Their father, Georg KUCHEL, died in 1845 aged 67 but his wife Anna Dorothea SEIFFERT survived until 1860,  but by 1853 she had sold and presumably left to live at Kirchenbergen where her sons farmed.  

J Dorothea Elisabeth KUCHEL's (1st cousin to her husband) father, Daniel KUCHEL from Lochow, Brandenburg near Zuellichau (now Łochowo Nr Kije, Poland) was also on the ship and some sources say he died at sea.  However there is a death recorded (Genealogy SA Death Registration Database) on 27 January 1857 of a Daniel KUCHEL, 83 years of age, residing in Hahndorf, death occurred in Hahndorf.  

 Extract from KUCHEL 1838-1970 page 3, practically nothing is known of the life of Johann Georg Kuchel or of his wife Anna Dorothea. It is believed that in the early 1840's they moved out to Kirchenbergen, which was about two miles south of the Hahndorf township. Kirchenbergen (meaning, "hills of the church") was undulating country which the Kuchels farmed. It was near Windmill Hill (a well-known spot in the Adelaide Hills) and it was in the gully between the properties now owned by Mr. H. Braendler and Mr. G. Paech. The ruins of four houses, probably built by the Kuchels, can still be seen on Mr. Braendler's property.

The Hahndorf community had overcome most of their early difficulties and had prospered considerably. The Kuchels probably shared in this prosperity and, although conclusive evidence is not available, it seems that members of the family occupied Kirchenbergen for about 40 years.

Kirchenbergen comprised three sections of land totalling about 240 acres (sections 3821, 3822 and 3823) out of 400 acres of Crown lands in a special survey that was purchased by the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts on 15th May, 1841. It cannot be ascertained under what tenure the Kuchels held Kirchenbergen originally, but in 1863 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel granted them a lease (in which they were described as "farmers") for a period of 20 years. The rent was fixed at £84 a year for the first seven years and £89 a year for the remainder of the term, so they allowed for inflation even in those days. Amongst the conditions of the lease were - "To cultivate and to plant on the said land during the first seven years 4/ acres of vines, to repair, uphold, amend and keep in repair the erections, buildings and fences upon the said premises, not to let, underlet or assign over or otherwise part with any portion of the said premises without the consent in writing of the said Society."

It is perhaps appropriate at this point to pause and pay a tribute to our forebears. They were indeed pioneers of the colony of South Australia. They had to tame and conquor the land. They had to fence the paddocks, build their houses and barns (of pug or local stone), drive the horses, roll the scrub, cut down the trees, make the roads, put down wells, construct dams, harvest the crops with sickle and scythe, and tend the sheep and the cattle. They had to do virtually with their bare hands what is done today with modern machinery. They had to battle Nature with the pick and shovel, the axe, the crowbar; but they overcame fire and drought, pests and vermin, discomfort and sickness, loneliness and anxiety. And right beside the men were those off-forgotten heroines - the women pioneers. Their worth has rarely been fully recognized, let alone acknowledged.

Johann Georg Kuchel died on 23rd February, 1845, at the age of 62, and his wife, Anna Dorothea, died on 28th October, 1860, at the age of 74. It is not known where they were buried, but most likely at Hahndorf.

 

Village land allocated to PAECH's, SCHULZ & KUCHEL (KLENKE). 

Map of Hahndorf Adelaide Hills locawiki

Purple:  Dorothea SCHULZ sister to Friedrich PAECH, 2 children

Green:   Friedrich PAECH joiner from Nickern, wife 3 children

Yellow:  Samuel KUCHEL, new wife & mother in law KLENKE

Blue:  Johann Georg PAECH, wife 6 children

Red:  George KUCHEL, wife 2 sons

Orange: Johann Friedrich PAECH, wife 5 children.

 

 

 

 

6.   KLENKE/JAENSCH & KLENKE/THIELE

Regarding KLENKE daughter no 4. Maria Elisabeth KLENKE

Extract from A College in the Wattles by Reg BUTLER page 353.  JAENSCH Christian Wilhelm attend the Hahndorf Academy in the 1860's.  Born 26 January 1859.  Died 23 Sep 1932.  Parents Christian JAENSCH Butcher & Farmer Hahndorf & Dorothea LUBASCH.  All of Wilhelm's parents and grandparents were foundation Hahndorf settlers.  Grandfather Christian JAENSCH stood as one of the two guarantors for Hahndorf's first settlers to gain their land. Besides his farming, he had extensive business interests in land and mining and knew many of S.A.'s pioneer personalities. Grandmother JAENSCH, nee Elisabeth KLENKE was the last person to be interred in the old St. Michael's cemetery.  She had reached great age of 98.  (Further information provided but not directly relevant here).

Extract from A College in the Wattles by Reg BUTLER page 354.  JAENSCH Johanna Louise ‘Hanna’ attended the Hahndorf Academy in the 1860’s.  Born 8 March 1854.  Died 26 December 1921.  Parents Christian JAENSCH butcher and farmer Hahndorf & Dorothea LUBASCH. Grandfather Gottfied Lubasch had suffered great privations in Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow and blew the bugle for the Prussian charge against the French Emperor at Waterloo.  In 1839 he established Hahndorf’s first hotel, the ‘German Arms’ Gottfried was also the district’s first mailman and prospered as a farmer.  As a girl Dorothea often walked over Windmill Hill from Hahndorf to deliver her father’s Mt Barker mail bag.  When labour was scarce during S.A.’s population exodus to the Victorian goldrushes, she went sheep shearing for district pastoralists.

Hannah had all of her education at T.W. BOEHM’s Hahndorf Academy and remained for the rest of her life in the house where she was born.  Both she and her young sister Martha never married but remained with their parents to help with the housework and duties associated with the butchering business which her father and brothers operated in the back yard.  Innumerable nieces and nephews could count on a warm welcome supported by substantial feasts of homemade German cake and sweetmeats.  Christmas meant traditional hot fare together with cold cucumber salad to aid digestion and plenty of cherries to hang from the ears. The family cow, tethered in one of the JAENSCH paddocks stretching for some distance along Pine Ave, had to be milked and the milk dealt with in the home dairy.  Hannah was renowned for her fine needlework, both in clothing and in other articles.

Hannah had prime responsibility for her aged parents, her father Christian JAENSCH the last Zebra passenger in Hahndorf to die – aged 90 in 1917.  Both Hannah and Martha delighted to point out the sturdy apple tree in their back garden which had come out as a seedling on the Zebra.  When the family home was broken up after Martha’s death in 1947, some furniture buyers got more than their money back from caches of money notes stuffed into upholstery and coins stuck on to the undersides of drawers.

 

7.  PAECH & PAECH/SCHULZ & PAECH

I have researched the family relationships between all the PAECH & PAECH/SCHULZ families in another article PAECH & LANGER.

There is a need to do this because to date I have found no publicly available evidence that traces their inter related family history.  All of these PAECH's & PAECH/SCHULZ's settled in Hahndorf and they were identified as being either 'Kaysher' PAECH's or 'Rentschener' PAECH's (or Tischler PAECH describing the carpenter from Nickern), depending on the village they came from.  Both of which were no more than 10kms apart in current day Poland.  They lived closely together on farming land south of Hahndorf and to follow how the 'Kaysher' PAECH's ended up with the 'Rentschener' PAECH property see the article Paechtown house 2 followed by Paech home Darby Rd 1.

Deducing from the 'Kavel's People' information:  Johann Georg PAECH's 1st wife Johanna Karoline KLENKE died between the birth of her last child in July 1830 and some months before the birth of his 2nd wife's first child in July 1834.  Karoline KLENKE died 7 years before the family immigrated, she was circa 38 years of age.    Georg not 40 years of age, married again to 22 year old Hannah Rosina RICHTER who was 18 years younger than himself. 

The marriage with his 2nd wife, Hannah Rosina RICHTER may have taken place around 1833 meaning that Georg PAECH & Hanna RICHTER had been married for five years & had 2 children before their departure from their home village of Kay, Brandenburg, Prussia.  

KLENKE family history

RICHTER family history

 

Johann Friedrich 'Rentschener' PAECH	Johann Georg 'Kaysher' PAECH	Rentschener PAECH, sister, Dorothea PAECH
	PAECH's on the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel April 1845, 117 days from Bremen.
PAECH's from Nickern	Johann Gottlieb PAECH b 1804

  

 

 

8.   Following the 1st wife's children:  KLENKE

• Karoline KLENKE's children:   Johann 'Christian' 18 years, Johann 'Gottlob' 15 years, Johann 'George' 12 years and Johanne 'Luise',  8years of age.  Also the older son who was left behind.

Eldest child: Johann Gottfried PAECH b1817c.

W. IWAN Because of their Beliefs, page 79. immigration in 1838 from Prussia: 'A dispute arose between the government and the guardianship tribunal over the children of PAECH by his first marriage, whether permission regarding guardianship was necessary.  The government demanded it, while the tribunal pronounced it to be not necessary as the children were under paternal authority.  There were also negotiations with the military authorities concerning the eldest son, since he had been discharged from the army after nine months because, according to one report, he had not been confirmed, or, according to another report, not confirmed by a minister.  Probably the confirmation was not recognised because it had not been performed by a union church [sic] minister.  Both cases were settled in favour of emigration'.

Authors Note:  However the eldest of these children Gottfried, did not join them on the 'Zebra' and his whereabouts are mentioned by David SCHUBERT in the book he authored as well as the book he edited:  'Kavel's People' page 166 'The eldest son of the first marriage, Johann Gottfried, came out in 1841, having had military service difficulties.'  Gottfried PAECH was born in 1817ca making him 21 years of age when he said goodbye to his family in 1838.  

W. IWAN,  page 83 it says: 'From Kay.'  'Gottfried PAECH, 24, coach driver. [Concerning him it was reported that his parents had already been in Australia for three years, that all of his friends and relations were taking part in this immigration, and that the group had already left Züllichau on 6 May].

Bound for South Australia, by Diane CUMMINGS.

Ancestry research by Elizabeth Barnes   Elizabeth states this eldest son was born 27 May 1816  in Pösen, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thueringen, Germany and dying at sea as he tried to reunite with his family in South Australia.   The Ship Skold arrived at Port Adelaide on 28 October 1841.  There were 45 deaths including 'PAECH Johann Gottfried Sept 9th, 25 years, at sea.'

Second child:  Johann Christian PAECH b1821.   See article Paechtown house 4

Third child:  Johann Gottlob b1824.   See article Paechtown house 3

Fourth child:  Johann George b1826.   See article Paechtown house 2

Fifth child: Johanne Luise b1830.  8 years old on the Zebra, at 21 years she married fellow passenger, Johann Friedrich August WITTWER eldest son of Miller WITTER who and Johanne Leonore Henriette GERLACH.  They had 8 children over 23 years, between 1852-1875.  Two of their girls died within days of each other in 1860, aged 3 years & less than 1 year.

 

9.  Following the 2nd wife's children:  RICHTER

First child:  Maria Elisabeth PAECH b1834.  Born in Kay, Brandenburg, Prussia, married Pastor J.C. Auricht.

Second child:  Johann Friedrich b1836.  Born in Kay, Brandenburg, Prussia.

 In 2020 I was put in touch with a New Zealand woman named Judith Ching, after she visited Hahndorf & the Hahndorf Cemetery looking for her Paech ancestors.

Judith reproduced this chart in our correspondence and said:

'I believe the Johann Friedrich age 2 shown here is my great great grandfather. My gg grandfather was born in Bremen in 1836.  John Frederick PEACH [sic] was born in Bremen Germany in 1836 and it seems that when he was two, his parents took him to Australia where they joined a large number of other Germans at Hahndorf. In his teens he joined a whaling ship which he 'jumped' on Banks Peninsula [New Zealand].

These notes from another relative were published in a book named 'Koukourarata Port Levy, compiled by Mary Staplyton-Smith.

John had a farm at Pigeon Bay, near Port Levy. My grandmother, Eveline PEACH [sic] his granddaughter, was raised with help from The Port Levy Marae. A number of children with the PEACH name went to the Port Levy School, which was close to Pigeon Bay.

​Pigeon Bay & Port Levy are on Banks Peninsula on the East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, near Christchurch where I live.  I have taken a My Heritage DNA which shows a small portion of German DNA, the same % as Finnish which is from my other gg grandfather.'

 

Third child:  Johann August b1841.  Born Hahndorf.   While they were both 21 years he married Wilhelmina Carolina MÜLLER on 13 February 1863. 'It is likely that she is a sister to Johann Carl Ferdinand MUELLER.'

Fourth child:  Johann Wilhelm b1844.  Born Hahndorf.  Wilhelm married Anna Kristina KWASCHNICK in 1863 and she died two years later.  In 1867, with 2 small children married  Maria Elizabeth LIEBELT who was widowed and was born LUBASCH.  They had 4 children and Maria had 3 girls with Gottfried LIEBELT.

Fifth child: Johanna Karoline b1846.  Born Hahndorf.  Also named on birth registration as Caroline, at 19 she married 22 year old Johann Gottlob THIELE in 1865 & they had 9 children over 13 years  between 1867-1880.

Sixth child: Johann Traugott b1849.  Born Hahndorf.  Traugott married Hanna Louise LIEBELT in 1871 and 8 children were born over 16 years between 1872-1888.

Seventh child: Johanna Eleonore b1851.  Born Hahndorf.  At 17 years of age in 1869 she married Johann August THIELE who was 23 years of age.  August's mother was Johanne Dorothea Agnes KLENKE who was a younger sister to Eleonore's father (Johann Georg PAECH)  his 1st wife who did in Prussia.

 

• Within 15 years [1854] of arriving in the Adelaide Hills this KLENKE/RICHTER/PAECH family built their homes in an area, near Hahndorf, that became known as'Paechtown'.
• All of the homes were variations of each other and all were fächwerk, with brick infill, half hipped roofing with stringy bark shingles.   It was this home/farm seen here on the right, known as 'No 3 house Paechtown', that the son 'Gottlob' & his wife Johanne Eleonore SCHULZ  [who he married in 1846], established. [5]  This is the home that John MUELLER was born into, almost 100yrs later.

 

10.  Friedrichstadt then Paechtown       

Both Friedrichstadt map & Paechtown houses & barns, illustrated & determined by Lothar BRASSE

 

               

 

Original Land Conveyance Records from October 1853

Provenance unknown

            

• Conveyance dated 25th October 1883. Covering Sections 394 and 396, and portions of Sections 394 and 395, conveyed from Johannes Frederick Paech to Christian Paech.  Registered as No. 146, Book 57.
• Land Grant dated 28th December 1848. Covering Section 397, granted to Christian Paech.  Registered in Book 34.
• Land Grant dated 31st October 1849. Covering Section 394, granted to Christian Paech. Registered as No. 1201, Book 38, with part of the land forming Parcels 11–12.
• Diagram Reference:  Sections 394, 395, 396, 397, and Section 6612.  (As shown in attached survey plan.)
• Survey Plan Endorsement:  Received Plan of Division of Sections 394 and 397. by W.G. Puckridge under Section 2988. Registered at G.10 Folio 24. Dated 5th May 1871.  (Signed by survey/land officer — unclear signature.)

11.  When did Georg PAECH Snr, Kaysher Paech, move to Paechtown?

A.  The old Paechtown houses were not built before 1850.

• A tape recorded interview 1975, that Lothar & Heidi BRASSE translated & transcribed in early 2024, indicates that the master carpenter of these Paechtown homes was Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN who arrived in South Australia in August 1849. 

B.  Reg BUTLER below suggests

• 1.  that his son & daughter in law moved there in 1850 & that the parents were also there.
• 2. the timing remains uncertain.
• 3. anecdotally Georg PAECH Jnr & Hanna HARTMANN's 1st child was born in Paechtown in November 1850 but not in the current home.

Reg BUTLER 'Hartmann's of the Prince Georg'

Extract page 36:  Johanna Caroline Hartmann married Johann George Paech Jnr, in the Hahndorf Lutheran Church on 4 January 1850, Pastor Kavel officiating....the pastor signed their marriage certificate for them....newly-married Hannah & George went to live on what must be one of Australia's unique settlements, several kilometres to the south-east of Hahndorf...within a stone's throw of her cottage were her father and step-mother in law the George Paechs Snr... further tip the road were the extensive properties of her brothers-in-law, Christian & Gottlob Paech.  

Extract page 38:  When the Kayscher Paechs took up residence on their lands must, at this point, remain uncertain.  Descendants of Hannah and George Paech are sure that the eldest child of that family, Johann Wilhelm, was born in a reed hut of timber covered by reed thatch, a little further towards the creek from the present permanent homestead, in November 1850......

Thus Hannah Paech, nee Hartmann began married life as a squatter, of prudent necessity forgoing the comforts of a more permanent home until her husband held title to it.  Her married brothers-in-law Christian and Gottlob Paech probably lived there under similar conditions.  ..... After title to the land was secured in 1853 it is likely that George Paech Snr, and his younger children moved out to Paechtown from Hahndorf.  

• 4.  After the land was secured in 1853 Georg PAECH Snr & his younger children moved to Paechtown.

C.  Sometime between 1849-1853 this house below was built by Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN for Georg PAECH Snr & Anna Rosina RICHTER.

 

Photographs by Lothar BRASSE 1980
Drawings below from the Hahndorf Survey.......

 

BELOW is still to be finished

 

Photograph by Lothar BRASSE, February 1980:  All of the homes were variations of each other and all were fächwerk, with brick infill, half hipped roofing and stringy bark shingles.

 

 

From Byways.... to highways, by Reg BUTLER

Extract page:

Authors Note:   

• Within 15 years [1854] of arriving in the Adelaide Hills this KLENKE/RICHTER/PAECH family built their homes in an area, near Hahndorf, that became known as'Paechtown'.

 Four individual houses/barns and farms, on both sides of the road, within easy walking of each other made up 'Paechtown'.  This road was named Paechtown Road in 1964, prior to that date it was called Faehrmann's Road.

  

 

 

Land Purchases

1860

Trove South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Saturday 14 April 1860, page 8

South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867, Saturday 14 April 1860, page 8Add a caption




 

Johann George PAECH; Residence, Near Hahndorf; Property, Block 17, of Section 3913, Three Brothers Special Survey; and (as intending purchaser from George BOHM, of Block 18, of said Section.  Date up to and inclusive of which caveat may be lodged, May 12, 1860

Death 1875

Courtesy 'HollyPeterson64' who shared this on Ancestry 4 June 2018