Agnes Bertha Hohenhaus
Father: Friedrich Hohenhaus (b1825 Deutschkrone*) Mother: Caroline Arndt
*migrated 1870. Was in East Prussia
- now Walcz in Poland.
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Children: Muriel, Others ?
According to John O Goodman (2020)
Agnes’s mother “Auguste Maria Caroline Arndt (1830-1886)”
“According to Ancestry.com Auguste Maria Caroline Arndt’s mother Wilhelmine Marie Christine Ackermann (born 1800) came to Queensland with them on the sailing ship Humboldt in 1870 and died in the Brisbane suburb of Nundah on 11 January 1883. Her husband Johann Arndt (born about 1800) remained in Germany. The first wife of Friedrich Ferdinand Hohenhaus was Wilhelmine Jacob who died of cholera after which Friedrich married Auguste Maria Caroline Arndt. Most of my several hundred Hohenhaus relatives living in Queensland are descended from Friedrich’s first wife or from Friedrich’s cousin who was from Balster in West Prussia. There was large scale German migration to South Australia and Southern Queensland in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Then during the two world wars until about 1955 we all had to hide German family connections if possible. I was told by my mother never to mention the surname or ethnic origin of her mother. “No one will talk to us if they know” was what she said to me as a child. David Brandt’s grandfather on his father’s side was about to be arrested by the South Australian police when the Presbyterian Church, in which he was a minister, transferred him to Sydney which was a more open minded city. All the German language schools were closed throughout Australia in 1915. They had been the only schools in many country areas of Queensland and South Australia. After that the governments were forced to build English language schools in all country areas.”