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HARTMANN & PAECH Lothar BRASSE Janis HAYNES: land, genealogy & Prussian buildings. Paechtown house No 2 1 of the 4 homes by Johann Carl Friedrich FÄHRMANN of Tangermünde, in Prussia built in Paechtown, South Australia

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

 

Who built the Paechtown Fachwerk houses?   Recorded evidence from 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. 

 

Hignett & Co 1983 Mt Barker Heritage Survey

George PAECH's House, former or other, Johann or Gottlob PAECH's house, dated 1853, Lot 14 Paechtown Rd, the first on the right-hand side of Paechtown, Section 3916, Hd Kuitpo.     Heritage Significance:   This section is part of the 13 section tract of land purchased by Johann Friedrich PAECH in 1846 and hence known as Friedrichstadt.  In 1853 Section 3916 as well as other land was sold to Christian PAECH, (Johann Christian Jnr.) of another PAECH family, who in turn subdivided Section 3916 and sold various portions to members of his family.  Block Nos 9 & 13 were sold to Johann Gottlob on 28 October, 1853. Although evidence suggests that Gottlob (Johann) had lived in Friedrichstadt before 1853 it would appear that the substantial house was not built until after the land purchase date.  Half-timbered with half-hipped shingle roof (now covered with iron), the house is a typical 18th Contrary Germanic 'Flurkeuchen' (passage kitchen design).   Reference:  Hahndorf Vol 11, Australian Heritage Commission 1979 (Book 57, Memorial 469, L.T.O.) Owner:  Mr R.J. Rowe

Lothar BRASSE wrote in:

'To fully appreciate this type of building construction, I shall discuss in detail the house I have designated as Paechtown house no. 2.  The reason for my choice is twofold: first, the anatomy of this house is well known by its present owners who are faithfully restoring it, and second, it is at a qualitative peak of South Australian Fachwerk buildings.  Although all Fachwerk buildings are structurally similar, some variations of detail do exist, and their significance will be examined throughout this chapter.

​The quality of the timber used in Fachwerk varied between split and twisted logs only roughly adzed to shape, and dimensionally perfect members of 'select' grade.  The cross-section was always rectangular or square.  The poorer quality, roughly dresseed timbers were typical of 'on-site- preparation, where the trees were chosen, felled and adzed by the builder, whilst the degree of accuracy for later pit sawn members tends to suggest that they were purchased from nearby commercial timber merchants.  The sale of dressed timbers, evidenced by the following newspaper clipping, had already begun two years after the foundation of the Province; obviously a choice of timbers was available.

S.A. Gazette and Colonial Register November 24th, 1838. Native Timber.  On sale at the timber yard of John Crawford and Co. Timber merchants & builders, Rundle Street.  Plates, Quartering, Rafters, Scantling, Battens, Posts and Rails, split or sawn.  Half inch and inch Native Pine, pine poles, large and small shingles, half inch weather boards, inch flooring boards, joists, broad and narrow railings.

 

 

 

Photograph from the JDA PAECH Photographic Collection.

    'Kavel's People' page 

David 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.  Above is his summary of the PAECH family who are known to have purchased the sections of land associated with and now referred to as Paechtown.  

Johann Georg PAECH whose 1st wife (Johanna Karoline KLENKE1793-1831c) 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.  The marriage with his 2nd wife, Hannah Rosina RICHTER may have taken place around 1833 meaning that they had been married for five years & had 2 children before their departure from their home village of Kay, Brandenburg, Prussia.  

Georg was described as a farmer & when, with his adult sons, they built their homes on adjacent land in Paechtown they were known as the 'Kaysher' PAECH's.  This was to differentiate them from other PAECH's, also on the Zebra, who came from the village of Rentschen.  Hence they were referred to as 'Rentschener' PAECH's.  These villages, situated now in Poland, are only 10kms apart.

• With them as well, were Karoline's older children, Johann 'Christian' 18years, Johann 'Gottlob' 15years, Johann 'George' 12years and Johanne 'Luise',  8years of age. [4]
• Hanna Rosina RICHTER had another 5 children in South Australia, born over a ten year period from 1841 to 1851. [5]
• 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.

 

Kaysher PAECH's

Johann George PAECH (1793-1875) married 1st wife, Johanna Karoline KLENKE (1793-1831) in Brandenburg, Prussia, 1815ca.

Their 3rd son was Johann Gottlob PAECH, who was 15 years of age on the 'Zebra' in 1838.  He married 10 December 1846 in the schoolroom at Hahndorf to Johanne Eleonore SCHULZ [1825-1897].  

Eleonore  was twelve years of age on the Zebra, in 1838.  Her parents are Dorothea Elizabeth PAECH b1796 and Johann SCHULZ .

 

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  [Reg BUTLER, From Byways ...to highways].

 

Lotha BRASSE  numbered these 4 homes No 1-4.  

No 1.   Parents:    George PAECH Snr

&

Hanna RICHTER right on the bend on the left of the road

• No 2.   4th son:   George Jnr on the right,
• No 3.   3rd son:   Gottlob on the right
• No 4.   2nd son:  Christian on the left as you head east.
• 5th child:   Johanne Louise PAECH.  

 

 

 

• Louise had married [1851] during this time [1850-1860] and had the first four of her 8 children born in 1852, 1853, 1856 and 1859.  

 

Of her brothers Christian had married [1848] and had children in 1851, 1855 and the last in 1860

Gottlob had married first [1846] and had his daughters in 1848, 1851, 1854 and 1857.  

George junior had married [1850] and had five of his seven children, 1850, 1851, 1854, 1856 and 1859 although two did not live long.

All of the homes were variations of each other and all were fächwerk, with brick infill, half hipped roofing and stringy bark shingles.  

PAECHTOWN House 1

The parents, George  PAECH Snr & Caroline KLENKE

 

 

 

Paechtown houses & barns, illustrated & determined by Lothar BRASSE

 

Paechtown in relationship to Friedrichstadt, illustrated & determined by Lothar BRASSE

 

Original Land Conveyance Records from October 1853

       

 

November 2023, Heather PETTY said this is where my 'Auntie Daphne & Uncle Adey used to live'.           November 2023, Heather PETTY said my 'grandfather Robert PETTY built this shed & the bakehouse on the other side of PAECH's house.

 

Kaysher PAECH's

Johann George PAECH (1793-1875) married 1st wife, Johanna Karoline KLENKE (1793-1831) in Brandenburg, Prussia, 1815ca.

Their 3rd son was Johann Gottlob PAECH, who was 15 years of age on the 'Zebra' in 1838.  He married 10 December 1846 in the schoolroom at Hahndorf to Johanne Eleonore SCHULZ [1825-1897].  

Eleonore  was twelve years of age on the Zebra, in 1838.  Her parents are Dorothea Elizabeth PAECH b1796 and Johann SCHULZ .

 

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  [Reg BUTLER, From Byways ...to highways].

Lotha BRASSE  [heritage architect, author, researcher] numbered these 4 homes No 1-4.  

• No 1.   Parents:    George PAECH Snr & Hanna RICHTER right on the bend on the left of the road
• No 2.   4th son:   George Jnr on the right, 
• No 3.   3rd son:   Gottlob on the right 
• No 4.   2nd son:  Christian on the left as you head east.
• 5th child:   Johanne Louise PAECH.  Louise had married [1851] during this time [1850-1860] and had the first four of her 8 children born in 1852, 1853, 1856 and 1859.  

Of her brothers Christian had married [1848] and had children in 1851, 1855 and the last in 1860

Gottlob had married first [1846] and had his daughters in 1848, 1851, 1854 and 1857.  

George junior had married [1850] and had five of his seven children, 1850, 1851, 1854, 1856 and 1859 although two did not live long.

All of the homes were variations of each other and all were fächwerk, with brick infill, half hipped roofing and stringy bark shingles.   

PAECHTOWN House 2

 

4th son Johann George PAECH & Johanne Karaline HARTMANN

Extract from Hartmanns of the Prince George by Reg Butler

Page 36 of Hartmanns of the Prince George, By Reg ButlerGeorge and Luise Hartmann's elder child, Johanna Caroline, was born on 24 February 1828, probably near Schwiebus.  Known as Hannah, she spent her early girl-hood in the district of her birth, and shortly after her 10th birthday, embarked with her parents and brother, together with another family from Schwiebus, shoemaker Behrendt, on the long voyage to South Australia. Al the activity concerning the Hartmanns' arrival at Port Adelaide and subsequent in Hahndorf's North Lane must have made a deep impression upon Hannah, whose chief occupation in those busy days must have been the care of seven-year-old brother Gottlob, with some fetching and carrying for variety. In Hahndorf's brand new church-school, Pastor Kavel's brother, Ferdinand, gave the Hartmann daughter her last exercises in primary education, before her confirmation and entry to adult life.  Sadly, none of the surviving grand children has any clear recollection of Hannah Paech, nee Hartmann, as they were either too young or not yet born when she died. Almost nothing is known of her personality and activities. Hannah went out into service, perhaos with one of Hahadorfe smal groun of widows. and halned her mother care for Pastor Klavel on his regular trips to the village. prudent frugal housekeeping had to quired, together with what was considered Women's work in the farmvard and garden. Luise Paech, the eldest daughter of the Hart manns' neighbour, George Paech. have surprised no-one that frequent sorties into the Paech house to indulge in the usual teenage chatter should eventually turn Hannah Hartmann's interests towards one from Christian, out of the elder Paech boys married Gottlob and George. Johanna Caroline HARTMANN married Johann Georne Paoch Jee in the Habndorf Lutherar Church and lanuary goro Pastor Kavel officiating. It is of interest to note that the pastor sioned their marriage certificate for them. The ceremony was witnessed petgrassed and timbered, with pools of permanent water for summer, to the use of the Company, a highly speculative venture designed to operate for seven years.

T h e initial complement of bulls and cows came overland from Sydney.

A constant stream of visitors praised the Company's beautiful and prosperous estate in the pages of Adelaide's newspapers. By 25 September 1839, the Register was able to report: This Company is flourishing almost beyond precedent. The shares, which cost €47.10.0 we may now  estimate at €122.10.0 each. The Company have now 200 head of cows, besides bulls, horses, working bullocks, pigs and poultry; and send to market 160 Ibs. of but No doubt, the majority of the stockmen and dairymaids were the young adults of Hahndorf's Germans, toast of the infant colony for their willing availability as loyal and thorough agriculturalists and husbandmen for the Mount Barker estates.

Unfortunately for J.B. Hack and his fellow investors, their extensive interests did not survive the withdrawal of credit to South Australia by the British Government following the arrival of Governor Grey in the colony in 1843. Amongst the casualties was the Cattle Company, upon which creditors pounced and advertised vigorously for sale. No queues of eager buyers were forth. coming and disposal languished for several years, failing even to succumb to a lottery sale in September 1844. Not that the land was not desired. In Grünthal (now Verdun), one of Hahndorf's agricultural outposts, a land prosperous owner, J.F.W. 'Rentschener' Paech, encouraged by Pastor Kavel, prepared to buy on trust when the time and price were right. The Cattle Company land was ideal for Hahndorf's young, land-hungry farmers, eager to set up on properties of their own. This opportunity came at a time when most of the available, suitable farmland immediately surrounding Hahndorf had already been acquired.

On 10 February 1846, J.F.W. Paech and Pastor A.Kavel bought the Cattle Company's land - 1175 acres for €1,300. Observed the South Australian Gazette: Considering the very low price for agricultural produce at present, the abundance of good government land to be had in smaller portions, and the comparative scarcity of cash, we regard this Following the settlement of a € 700 mort-gage on 16 January 1850, Friedrich Paech subdivided Sections 3899, 3900 and 3901,Hundred of Kuitpo, and began selling these subdivisions, together sections. Three sections he kept for his own Christian Paech of the Kayscher Paechs bought Sections 3912 and 3913, together with Part Section 3913, in the north-eastern corner of the former Cattle Company estate, adjacent to Sections 3917 and 3918, which he had bought as government grants in the late 1840s, and Section 4232 which was acquired from 'Mueller' Wittwer in 1851. The government grant Sections 3917 and 3918 were subdivided into farming blocks for the four Paech families settled there and Section 3916 of the 'Renschener' Paech land was subdivided to provide homestead blocks and further small pieces of farmland or each family. Christian Paech made over his father's and two brothers' shares to them on 28 October 1853, the same day he acquired the 'Rentschener' Paech sections. Thus began Paechtown, or the 'Kettel' (the German word for 'cattle'), which older district residents still call the area, part of which does encompass portion of the former Cattle Company lands. Indeed, an outstation of the old company is still marked on certain maps on Section 4236 to the south-

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 rude hut of timber covered by reed thatch a little further towards the creek from the present permanent homestead, in November 1850. Al the Paechtown homesteads are on Section 3916. Perhaps Christian Paech decided on an unofficial subdivision of his two sections, together with Section 3916, relying on some agreement with J.F.W. Paech that the latter section he desired would be his when it was out of mortgage and Christian had the necessary purchase money. Hannah Paech, most likely 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. There seems no necessity for a middle-aged couple with a family 10 endure the inconvenience of pioneering in a hut for the second time in little over a decade. Into the vacated Hahndorf home went 'Tischler' Paech from further up in Lane, who received the first title for former Kayscher' Paech property on 1 December 1853, at the time the original Hahndorf lands came out of mortgage as well. There-upon began a spate of building activity, both in Hahndorf and Paechtown, such as had not been seen since the foundation of the community in 1000. For those who desired and could afford it, came permanent homes of brick and timber, reminiscent of the Prussian homeland. At Paechtown, there was plenty newly-cleared farmland to use floors and ceilings Family tradition has it that the bricks were brought out Europe as balast in sailing shine caling at Port Adelaide. In later years, iron covered the original roof shingles, but this has now home and the roof covered with shingles ould not have ben eacy. Barely out of her teens, she har to adinst to mariage ale38 help her husband. George, carve a property out of virgin scrub. Their eldest child, Wilhelm, was born in November of the first year of their marriage. He was followed by two more sons who died in infancy. The rest of the surviving family, two sons and two daughters, were all born at Paechtown between 1856-1867. Long-service leave and child endowment were unheard of luxuries.

Daily routine at Paechtown was long and hard. Early each morning, had to be cooked and the children dressed. Water had to be brought inside in wooden buckets from a well. It was a hands-and- knees job to scrub the brick-floor kitchen and verandah. Hannah made most of the family's clothes and did the mending. Foot-wear was taken to a Hahndorf bootmaker for repairs. Weekly, there was a grand bake of bread and German cake in the outside brick bake oven. Some twelve pigs had to be fed and a number of cows milked. Twice a year, two days were set aside for pig-killing and the making of ham, wurst and bacon. These were cured in a smoke house in the back yard and then hung in the cellar beneath the kitchen.

While Hannah cared for the house and children, George laboured which by the end of the 1850s reached almost 200 acres in size. In the manner of the time, the land he obtained from brother Christian on 28 October 1853 was hedged always reserving thereunto the said Christian Paech his heirs and assigns the roads and watering places for cattle there . in after described and to the use only of which the said George Paech Jr. his heirs and assigns shall be On his own initiative, George was granted Section 5231, Hundred of Kuitpo, 32 acres € 70 adjoining his brother Christian's home, on 9 November 1850, just a fortnight before the birth of his eldest child, Wilhelm.

On 10 July 1856, George bought Section 3915, a property of 62 acres, from Peter Leonard Schinckel, a Hahndorf cabinetmaker who was leaving with other Young men, including George's brother-in-

 

Their children were born in  1850, 1851, 1854, 1856, 1859, 1862 & 1867, 5 sons & 2 daughters.

 

College in the Wattles by Reg Butler page 399

PAECH Johann August

Born 1 June 1862.  Died 22 September 1849.  Parents George PAECH farmer, Paechtown & Johanna Hartmann.  George PAECH Sen brought a family from two marriages with him aboard the Zebra when he emigrated to SA in 1838.  During the 1840's, father George PAECH junior and two brothers established themselves on farms at Paechtown where August was born and raised.

JA PAECH did at least most of his schooling at BOEHM's Academy. It is not known whether he attended Teacher STREMPEL's Congregational school after it separated fro BOEHM in 1871.  For the rest of his life, August remained in the home of his birth, which he inherited from his parents.  Through the years, wattle stripping continued to increase the size of the arable holding.  a PAECH harvested wheat and field peas and reared hand fed steers.  

August married Hannah, eldest daughter of the Hahndorf labourer August SCHMIDTKE.  As a two year old, she had come from Germany to Australia in 1875.  In the 1920's and 1930's, her younger sister Berth was matron of the Hahndorf Hospital run in the former Academy buildings.  Besides her own lively youngsters, Hannah had the care of August's greatly aged grandmother HARTMANN and his father George PAECH.

 

PAECH Georg Hermann 

Born 3 July 1859.  Died 22 March 1939.  Parents George PAECH farmer, Paechtown & Johanna Hartmann.  Hermann was always extremely proud of the fact that the dedication of the new St Michael's Church, Hahndorf, coincided with his birth.  Not a fortnight later, he was the second child to be baptised in the new building.  As a youth, G.H. PAECH had to work hard on his father's various properties, especially the Western Flat farm settled on Hermann's eldest brother Wilhelm.

Add a captionPhotograph from the JDA PAECH Photographic Collection. In 1892, H. PAECH married Bertha JAESCHKE, whose SCHULZ ancestors had arrived in SA with Hermann's mother Hannah HARTMANN aboard the Prince George in 1838.  George PAECH settled on his son the 'Rentschener' PAECH farm at nearby Friedrichstadt, which old scholar FW PAECH sold when he realised that his life's work lay in Parliament and not on the land.  In old age, the Hermann PAECHs retired to the old scholar BORCHER's former home in Hahndorf's Main Street.

Through Teacher BOEHM's efforts, GH PAECH became extremely fluent in English.  As as JP, he was in great demand to witness wills and furnish other legal advice to neighbours.  Hermann also gave greatly valued service as an elder of St Michael's Congregational school and it was his melancholy duty to help arrange for its forced closure in 1917.  

 

 

The JAESCHKE Connections Family History by Dulcie LOVE 1987 

Extract page 323: Luise Bertha JAESCHKE m Hermann Georg PAECH

'When she married, Bertha went to live not far form where her great grandfather Johann George JAESCHKE first settled in South Australia, at Paechtown, named after her husband's pioneer ancestor, [Authors Note: his grandfather], Johann George PAECH'.   Irma SEIDEL writes of her grandmother Bertha, "My grandmother Bertha was known the length and breadth of Hahndorf for her compassion, kindness and charity.  Anyone sick or in distress called for her assistance.  She was also a midwife and assisted at the births of her grandchildren.  Children adored her, and her grandchildren's friends and neighbour's children called her 'Mutty PAECH'.  She was a great influence, both morally and spiritually on the lives of her family, also a great raconteur; her stories, both Biblical and  of her early life, spoken in her light silvery voice, left her listeners spellbound".  

Hermann was a general farmer but particularly kept dairy cattle.  He was the son of Johann George PAECH and Johanne Caroline [nee HARTMANN] who had arrived on the Zebra from Kay and Schwiebus in Prussia at the end of 1838.' 

 

George Herman PAECH & Luise Bertha JAESCHKE 2nd child Clara Ottilie Selma PAECH who married 1926 Carl Edgar LIEBELT

Clara Ottilie Selma PAECH b 1904.

Extract page 325: 'Selma went to St Michaels school in Hahndorf until the Lutheran schools were all closed down in 1917 by the Government then she finished her schooling at the local State school.  When her brother Albert married and took over the PAECH farm, her parents took over a small block on the Echunga Road but because of a stroke her father had to leave most of the work to his wife and daughter.  So they sold the block and retired to Hahndorf.  Selma also often helped in Albert's farm and home.  She also took courses in dressmaking the School of Mines in Adelaide for one full day a week.  As a skilled dressmaker she was often called on to make wedding outfits.  Her husband's critical opinion on the finished article was expected by every bride-to-be.  

• Selma and Edgar were married in 1926.  He was the son of Johann August LIEBELT and Clara Ottilie [nee ALTMANN].  They lived on a dairying and potato growing property on the Echunga Road but sold it later as there were no sons to carry it on.  After living for ten years at Mount Barker where Ed worked as a painter, they settled into their own house in Hahndorf.  There they constructed their own private bowling rink in the back yard and maintained a well kept garden.  Ed made many fine fretwork articles over the years including fretwork picture frames to house the family portraits.  Selma still lives in the Hahndorf house although Ed died in 1985.'

 

Eldest Child

Johann Albert PAECH b1893.

Extract page 324: 'Living in Hahndorf area all his life, Albert worked on his parents farm at first.  At the time they grew quite a bit of hay which was then chaffed and delivered by waggon to the market gardeners of the Piccadilly Valley and other places. It was fed to their horses with which they worked their land.  Cows were always a main part of the farm enterprises and later Albert grew potato crops and onions.  

• As rabbits were very numerous they were killed for extra meat, until Myxomatosis was introduced as an extreme measure to control their plague numbers.  Albert also successfully fished in the Onkaparinga and Murray Rivers. '  

 

​Johann Albert PAECH & Alwine Eleonore Constance BRAENDLER's 1st child Ronald Sydney PAECH who married 1948c Juanita Dorothea HELBIG.

Ronald Sydney PAECH

 

b1919

Extract page 324: 'Following his father's footsteps Ron and his wife set up in a dairy farm at Echunga but in the early 1070's he sold the Echunga property and bought a larger property at Frances on which he mostly runs sheep and a few cattle.  Nita is the daughter of Reinhard Alfred HELBIG and Elizabeth Lydia [nee DOECKE]'

 

 

George Herman PAECH & Luise Bertha JAESCHKE 2nd child Clara Ottilie Selma PAECH who married 1926 Carl Edgar LIEBELT

Clara Ottilie Selma PAECH b 1904.

Extract page 325: 'Selma went to St Michaels school in Hahndorf until the Lutheran schools were all closed down in 1917 by the Government then she finished her schooling at the local State school.  When her brother Albert married and took over the PAECH farm, her parents took over a small block on the Echunga Road but because of a stroke her father had to leave most of the work to his wife and daughter.  So they sold the block and retired to Hahndorf.  Selma also often helped in Albert's farm and home.  She also took courses in dressmaking the School of Mines in Adelaide for one full day a week.  As a skilled dressmaker she was often called on to make wedding outfits.  Her husband's critical opinion on the finished article was expected by every bride-to-be.  

• Selma and Edgar were married in 1926.  He was the son of Johann August LIEBELT and Clara Ottilie [nee ALTMANN].  They lived on a dairying and potato growing property on the Echunga Road but sold it later as there were no sons to carry it on.  After living for ten years at Mount Barker where Ed worked as a painter, they settled into their own house in Hahndorf.  There they constructed their own private bowling rink in the back yard and maintained a well kept garden.  Ed made many fine fretwork articles over the years including fretwork picture frames to house the family portraits.  Selma still lives in the Hahndorf house although Ed died in 1985.'

 

Alwine Eleonore Constance BRAENDLER & Johann Albert Jack PAECH 

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Authors Note: John's grandparents were Alwine Eleonore Constance known as 'Connie' BRAENDLER b1897 Monarto, & Johann Albert Jack PAECH b1893 Western Flat, Mt Barker, died 14 September 1972.  They married at the Zion Lutheran Church Monarto, Nairne 7 May 1919.  

Lothar BRASSE and I were privileged to explore 'The PINES then owned by Rosemary & .  This was in the context of the architecture of the old home possibly built by Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN, my great, great grandfather. I asked John about a frame work in an old shed which looked like a sledge and he included it in his own story below.

John Douglas Alfron PAECH b1971, grew up on a farm on Oinns Road near Echunga, 3 miles from his grandparents farm on Darby Rd.  In February 2025 John provided this postcard photograph of his grandpa while he was still a single man, and where he has signed it 'Ben'.  John also recalled his memories of 'The Pines' and his family living there. 

 

Reverse of photograph on left.'JDA PAECH Collection' "Dear Connie I am sending you one of my photos in return for the one I got hope you will recognise me Albert and I intend coming down to your place Saturday evening are going hair shooting to Hartley first so hope this finds you in good health and spirits kindest regards from Ben xx". Date unknown, before 1919.

 

‘THE PINES’  Darby Road, Hahndorf by John PAECH

" As we lived a couple of miles from my Grandparents farm “The Pines” at Hahndorf, I have some wonderful memories. Grandpa would place me on the back of one of the Clydesdale horses as we went up the hill with the sledge to feed the cows, and horses. Chains from the horses collars were attached to the sledge.  The farm with rich soil could grow anything".

 

Scullery Days Vintage's post Facebook, November 12, 2024.

Museums Victoria Collections Ehive.

Authors Note: re Facebook post on left. 'Les Peters from 'All Our Yesterdays: restored images of early South Australia November 11, 2024. "Two farm workers bagging grain from a horse drawn stripper in about 1910

" Grandpa and his sons grew a lot of oats, then using the 'Sunshine' binder made sheaved hay for chaff cutting, when I was old enough I also helped cut chaff.

Scullery Days Vintage's post Facebook, July 15 2022Originally the 'Dutch Bros Chaff cutter' was driven by a big international stationary engine, all the sheaved hay was stacked across the creek in the barn that's where we cut chaff.  

Authors Note: re Facebook post on left  this chaff cutter .... "Made by Dutch Brothers Ironworks of Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills.  From 1850 the foundry was known for its many inventions"

Grandpa fed the chaff cutter while Uncle Sid put the sheaves on the platform and Dad was on the bagging off.  Grandma always had a wonderful spread of sandwiches and cakes for our breaks.  

The chaff was used to feed the cows, while being milked placing a nose bag over the cow’s head with oaten chaff inside. The milk originally went into ten gallon milk cans and Amscol milk company picked it up.  It went to Adelaide.  Grandma used to take cream off for butter.   Most of the neighbours milked cows, I don't know when they went to milking machines, I can only remember milking machines being in use.  In the mid 1960's  refrigerated milk vats came in and milk tankers began picking up bulk milk.   The chaff was also used to feed the work horses, Monty, Ruby & Chief in the stable.  

A lot of chaff was sold to Wittwer’s in Hahndorf. Potatoes and onions were also grown on the farm, they were harvested by hand till chained potato diggers came in.  Potatoes and onions were taken by truck to east end market in Adelaide.    Mt Barker sub clover was also grown and the family bought a Kaesler bros clover thresher to clean the seed."

Authors Note:  

https://ehive.com/collections/5882/objects/1094686/kaesler-bros-subterranean-clover-thresher (see Golden Memories Millthorpe Museum, NSW.) 

See also https://www.ahmrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/KaeslerThresher.pdf the provenance of this Kaesler Clover Thresher made in Hahndorf, 1926c and owned by the Adelaide Hills Motor Restorers Club Inc, who hold the annual Power of the Past exhibitions in Milang, S.A. in March.

The  interesting thing is that this machine was sold to H.B. KRAMM on 17 October 1935 and it was acquired by the AHMRC at the KRAMM clearing sale in 1993.  The clubs website says 'The KRAMM property was on Echunga Rd, Hahndorf'.   

H.B. KRAMM refers to Herman Bernhardt KRAMM born 1903 on this same property his mother being Anna Bertha LIEBELT born 1867 also on this same property, who inherited this property from her parents LUBASCH & LIEBELT (the original pioneer settlers) and who shared the property with her husband Carl Reinhold KRAMM b1866 in Prussia when she married him in 1895. John PAECH who is telling his story above and below is a 3C3R of Herman's wife Alwine Florrie HENNIG.  

Their property off Echunga Rd was known as 'Balgara' and the home was almost certainly also built by my great great grandfather Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN.  

 

 

"Grandpa loved his large vegetable garden, along with fishing and shooting. I also remember helping him feed chaff to the horses in the stable. My grandparents milked quite a few cows then changed to Friesian cows for better milk supply.

Gray's Inn, Mt Barker S.A.

The calves they did not need were taken to the fortnightly market at Mt Barker held by Bennett and Fisher stock agents. This was at the bottom end of Mt Barker's Main Street, between Gray's Inn Hotel and the Courier Newspaper.  The market consisted of most types of cows, steers, bulls etc, and sheep and sundries, most of the bobby calves were bought by Jacobs Smallgoods of Mt Barker.

It was a social event with neighbours and friends meeting up and talking about events, then after the sale they meet at Gray’s Inn hotel for a drink. My Grandma was an active outdoor person, and loved her cooking, some Sundays after church our family were invited for lunch with roast goose and roast homegrown vegetables. Grandpa bred the geese and killed them, while grandma dressed them, sometimes with my help.  We always ate in the big dining room next to the kitchen.  Grandma would cook up all types of cakes and desert, my favourite was Streusel Kuchen or German cake and cream jelly lilies.

Our family has always been involved in St Michaels Lutheran Church since the beginning.

Pig killing was quite an event with all family involved in making sausages, white and black puddings, then smoking hams, and bacon in the smoke house.  The place where the pigs and sheep were always killed was referred to as the 'gallows', and the meat was hung there in bags for two or three days.  Everybody came to help make the smallgoods.  I remember my Mum also helping grandma clean the pig runners for sausages and puddings, yes we still eat puddings.

As a child I liked playing in the two rooms below the bedrooms of the old house on the ground floor. The room on the left was the Parlor which was the original kitchen with open fireplace, which was lined to the very top of the chimney, with steel doors in the loft for smoking meat.

The other ground floor room was Grandpas gun room, and it had an assortment of guns in it.  Grandpa would smoke in the saloon which was the original kitchen.  The chairs in the saloon were large velvet arm chairs where he would entertain his male visitors, smoke & drink port. 

I played up in the attic a lot when younger intrigued by exposed beams and the original shingle roof covered by galv iron.

When grandpa died in 1972, (I was 17 years old), Uncle Sid (Grandpa's youngest brother Sidney Walter, who would have been 45 years old & never married) looked after Grandma, who was 75 years old. 

In the late 1980's, when my own boys John and Mark were little we would come back to the farm where Uncle Sid’s now lived on his own.  The boys loved sliding down the stairs from the loft to the ground floor two flights of stairs in their sleeping bags. The time I spent there is something I will never forget".

 

 

Authors Note:  Children of Johann Georg PAECH & Johanne Karline HARTMANN. 

• 1st child.  Johann Wilhelm PAECH b1850 m 1875 Annadoratea THIELE b1856 received the Western Flat Farm
• 2nd child.  Mary Caroline Maria PAECH b1856 m 1877 Heinrich HAEBICH b1851 lived
• 3rd child.   Georg Hermann PAECH b1859 m 1892 Luise Bertha JAESCHKE b1874 received the Darby Road Farm known as 'The Pines'.
• 4th child.  Johan Auguste PAECH [Red August] b1862 m 1894 Johanne Auguste SCHMIDTKE.
• 5th child.  Johanne Luise Bertha PAECH b1867 m 1891 Carl august WUDKE b1862

 

 

 

Child No 6.

Johann Auguste PAECH b1862 took over the running of the farm & house no 2.

• Nickname was 'George's August', or 'Red August'.
• He married April 1894 to Johanne Auguste SCHMIDTKE

Their 6 children were born in 1895, 1897, [12 months later their grandmother died] 1900, 1901, 1902 & 1908 [3 months after her grandfather died]

• Friedrich Oswald PAECH b1895
• Hugo Reinhold PAECH b1897
• Johann Edmund PAECH b1900 married 1934 Daphne Jean PETTY
• Alwine Alma PAECH b1901
• Edwin Theodor PAECH b1902
• Ottielie Clara PAECH b1908 married in 1932 Charles PETTY 

His parents died in 1908 & 1898.

The children were aged 13, 11, 8, 7, 6, unborn when their grandfather died in 1908.

Two of their children married PETTY siblings they are numbered No 1 & No 2 below.

 

 

 

 

 

From 'Historical Australian Towns'

Summary

 

The family names mentioned in this article
 

 

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Aim of Article

 

 

Table of Contents

 

1.    Author's Note

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Kaysher PAECH's

Johann George PAECH (1793-1875) married 1st wife, Johanna Karoline KLENKE (1793-1831) in Brandenburg, Prussia, 1815ca.

Their 3rd son was Johann Gottlob PAECH, who was 15 years of age on the 'Zebra' in 1838.  He married 10 December 1846 in the schoolroom at Hahndorf to Johanne Eleonore SCHULZ [1825-1897].  

Eleonore  was twelve years of age on the Zebra, in 1838.  Her parents are Dorothea Elizabeth PAECH b1796 and Johann SCHULZ .

 

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  [Reg BUTLER, From Byways ...to highways].

Lotha BRASSE  [heritage architect, author, researcher] numbered these 4 homes No 1-4.  

• No 1.   Parents:    George PAECH Snr & Hanna RICHTER right on the bend on the left of the road
• No 2.   4th son:   George Jnr on the right, 
• No 3.   3rd son:   Gottlob on the right 
• No 4.   2nd son:  Christian on the left as you head east.
• 5th child:   Johanne Louise PAECH.  Louise had married [1851] during this time [1850-1860] and had the first four of her 8 children born in 1852, 1853, 1856 and 1859.  

Of her brothers Christian had married [1848] and had children in 1851, 1855 and the last in 1860

Gottlob had married first [1846] and had his daughters in 1848, 1851, 1854 and 1857.  

George junior had married [1850] and had five of his seven children, 1850, 1851, 1854, 1856 and 1859 although two did not live long.

All of the homes were variations of each other and all were fächwerk, with brick infill, half hipped roofing and stringy bark shingles.   

PAECHTOWN House 2

4th son Johann George PAECH & Johanne Karaline HARTMANN

Their children were born in  1850, 1851, 1854, 1856, 1859, 1862 & 1867, 5 sons & 2 daughters.

Child No 6.

Johann Auguste PAECH b1862 took over the running of the farm & house no 2.

• Nickname was 'George's August', or 'Red August'.
• He married April 1894 to Johanne Auguste SCHMIDTKE

Their 6 children were born in 1895, 1897, [12 months later their grandmother died] 1900, 1901, 1902 & 1908 [3 months after her grandfather died]

• Friedrich Oswald PAECH b1895
• Hugo Reinhold PAECH b1897
• Johann Edmund PAECH b1900 married 1934 Daphne Jean PETTY
• Alwine Alma PAECH b1901
• Edwin Theodor PAECH b1902
• Ottielie Clara PAECH b1908 married in 1932 Charles PETTY 

His parents died in 1908 & 1898.

The children were aged 13, 11, 8, 7, 6, unborn when their grandfather died in 1908.

Two of their children married PETTY siblings they are numbered No 1 & No 2 below.

 

 

No 1.   Their 3rd child was Johann Edmund PAECH b1900 who in 1934 married  Daphne Jean PETTY b1914

November 2023, Heather PETTY said this is where my 'Auntie Daphne & Uncle Adey used to live'.

There children were:  Kevin Edmund PAECH b1939,  Gordon Norman PAECH b1942, Geoffrey Dean PAECH b1946, Jennifer Daphne PAECH b1950

November 2023, Heather PETTY said my 'grandfather Robert PETTY built this shed & the bakehouse on the other side of PAECH's house.'

  No 2.  Their youngest [6th child] was Ottielie Clara PAECH b1908, who in 1932 aged 23 years married 24 year old Charles PETTY b1907.

They had 5 children 

• Marjory Ella PETTY b1932
• Alan PETTY b1933
• Bety Dawn PETTY b 1940
• Malcolm Charles PETTY b1946
• Lynette Fay PETTY b1952

The parents of these two, Charles & Daphne Jean PETTY have 8 siblings.

Their parents are: Robert Thomas PETTY & Camilla Erikka Mathilda HENNINGSEN

Paechtown house 1

Charles PETTY lived in Paechtown house 1 with wife Ottielie Clara PAECH

Paechtown house 2

His sister Daphne Jean PETTY lived in Paechtown house 2 with husband Johann Edmund PAECH

 

 

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