Darling Downs pioneers Johann Georg Ludwig Kuhn and Eva Maria Wohlfahrt
My great grandparents, Johann George Ludwig (George) Kuhn and Eva Maria Wohlfahrt, travelling on the Johann Caesar, arrived in Moreton Bay (Brisbane) Australia on January 14th 1853. Both were born in Baden, Preussen (later Prussia): George in about 1823 to John Kuhn and Barbara Lorn; and Eva in about 1824 to Peter Wohlfahrt and Margaret Geiner (as recorded on the ship's manifest). Soon after their marriage, they had travelled to Hamburg with their six month old son Valentine, and there boarded the Johann Caesar, as a NSW government sponsored 'vinedresser' family. The Johann Caesar was one of a number of vessels bringing NSW government sponsored immigrant vinedresser families to NSW (as Queensland was then known) between 1849 and 1856. As Peter Ludlow (2020) ( https://peterlud.wordpress.com/ctegary/Germany) in his Moreton Bay History explains, in the 1850's the Darling Downs region was a burgeoning agricultural area with large areas of ...