Familien Hartenthaler, Mauz, Gleichfeld, Tschichholz, Burger und Schindler

JOHN ARRIVED IN SYDNEY IN 1856, DRAWN TO AUSTRALIA BY THE GOLD RUSH. SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARRIVAL HE WENT TO BE DIGGING IN PROSPECT NSW WHERE HE MARRIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY ANOTHER GERMAN MIGRAT EVA NUSS. EVA WAS BORN IN KEMBACH IN THE BLACK FOREST AND HAD BEEN SENT TO AUSTRALIA BY HE FATHER TO WORK. SHE WAS TO SEND MONEY HOME TO HELP SUPPORT HIS RATHER LARGER FAMILY OF 21 CHILDREN, WHICH HER FATHER TO HIS TWO WIVES AND THE REMAINDER WERE STEP CHILDREN FROM HIS THIRD MARRIAGE. HOWEVER ONCE IN AUSTRALIA AND SAFE FROM PAPA, EVA FORGOT HER OBLIGATIONS. IT WAS ABOUT 1860 THAT JOHN AND EVA MOVED TO DARLING TOWN BROUGHT A LARGE BLOCK OF GROUND AT MIDDLE RIDGE AND CULITVATED A MIXED FARM WHICH SUPPORTED SEVEN CHILDREN WHOSE NAMES WERE, JOHN, JOSEPH, CATHERINE, FREDERICK, CHRISTIE, EVA AND ELISZBETH LOUISE. IN THE EARLY DAYS THE WILDERNESS WAS FRIGHTENING THE FEAR OF THE CHILDREN WANDERING INTO THE BUSH, THIS HAPPENED TO FREDERICK WHEN HE WAS 2 YEARS OLD. HE WAS FOUND ALIVE.

Anmerkung: Kembach liegt nicht im Schwarzwald; gehört seit dem 1.12.1972 zu Wertheim