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From: "Tom Johnson" <>
Subject: BINJOUR PIONEER GROUP (part one)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:43:06 +1000


<flushboth><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>Hello everyone,</flushboth>

<flushboth>I have offered to retype a very faded piece of history. The fading is so
bad, it can not be photocopied. I do not know when it was written but
Hermann Bramer was born in 1906 in Germany and died in 1986. He was
in this group, but would have been too young to remember. I hope it is
interesting to some of you. I have broken it up into sections, as the
original is 4 pages long, and I expect to take about 5 pages to retype it all.
</flushboth>

<flushboth>TIA.</flushboth>

<flushboth><bold><underline>BINJOUR PIONEER GROUP</flushboth>

</underline></bold>By Pastor Hermann Bramer

<flushboth>It was in the year of 1906 when the Missionary of The Apostolic Church
of Queensland, H F Niemeyer was taking a trip to Germany. He was
approached by the then Premier Denholm to try if possible and bring out
migrants to Australia. Three years lapsed before things eventuated and
in 1909 fifty families came to settle at Binjour plateau. In 1910 another
group came and settled at Riverleigh and two more groups to Baffle
Creek and Goomeri. All settled on land in these area only for migrants.
But in the Binjour Plateau settlement there was on Australian, H F
Lindenmeyer, who was granted a portion as an interpreter.</flushboth>

<flushboth>In the group that came to Binjour Plateau there were not all of the one
sect. The group consisted of mostly tradesmen, carpenters, butchers,
bakers, cabinet makers, bricklayers, coalminers, from Breweries and
Rubber Works, blacksmiths, even homeopathist. In those respects they
seemed most self-supporting.</flushboth>

<flushboth>They came from various parts of their home-land, also differences of
dialect, but they mixed well to take on their journey collectively to
Australia. Their departure took place on about the middle of February
1909 from the Port of Flussing in a small steamer to the Port of Tilbury
where they embarked on a bigger vessel (The Asturious) of about 10,000
tons.</flushboth>

<flushboth>The families names are: J. Barend; O Ro Bramer; H Bilabrusg; G Cryach;
F Dietz; A Von Dorn; H Frickmann; V Frehman; F Fleisher; M Fing; R
Gottwald; A Grommeck; A Geurts; P Gruneberg; W Geschonke; A
Gaedtke; H Heidrich; H Hilderbrand; F Kemp; F Kellermeyer; R Kathagi;
F Kasberger; W Loberg; F Liebram; G Lathuen; H Meyer; M Mickeol; M
Mankofski; C Niehaus; E Neukother; A Niemeyer; H Oppermann; A
Prygoda; P Paul; H Schultz; W Schulz; M Schneider; A Schiffke; A
Sallisch; H Scholl; E Schulke; R Streig; O Sukop; C Schon; M Tessmer; R
Viert; A Wilke; H Wengel; T Zimpel; F Ziegelseck.</flushboth>

<flushboth>When the steamer took sail from Flussing across the North Sea to the
next port at England, the Captain of the vessel said he never ever had a
rough voyage such as that. The majority of the passengers got sea-
sick, the stewards handed out a lot of small basins to the passengers,
they wondered why, but they soon got experience how to use them (as
they were still in Europe).</flushboth>

<flushboth>After their experience they arrived at their first stop, Tilbury Dock, there
to embark on the larger vessel to Australia. On the long journey of
13,000 miles and six weeks of travel, it was sea and water all the way to
their destination and were they glad to step on the land of Australia in
good health on the 28th of March.</flushboth>

<flushboth>Leaving their home country with all possessions and to settle in
Queensland was not an easy task. They knew very little what to expect
out in the bush and the task before them as pioneers. They arrived in
Brisbane on their final stop to Queensland, then travelled to Laidley by
train, from there transport was by horse drawn vehicles to Hatton Vale at
the home of their travelling Agent, another step further on their journey.
The people at Hatton Vale were all German descent and accomodation
was provided for all the new comers and to make them feel at home.</flushboth>

end of part one.

<nofill>
Lorrae
Plainland via Laidley
S E Qld

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