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From: "June Welsby" <>
Subject: Grigo/Hansen
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 09:55:09 +1100


Hi
My name is June Welsby and I live in Victoria. My great grandfather Carl Grigo, a German from East Prussia, married Maren Hansen from Denmark in Clermont in September 1879. Maren arrived at Rockhampton on the ship "Charles Dickens" from Hamburg in February 1879 but I cannot find Carl arriving in Queensland. I employed a researcher to obtain details of Maren's arrival and to look to Carl but she couldn't find him coming in to Queensland not even as a crew member. I have been looking at shipping arriving in Sydney but to no avail. Can anyone suggest where I should look?. Some time ago I wrote to the Clermont Historical Society but I've never had a reply.

Carl was a baker by trade and as far as I know carried on that trade in Australia until he got to Bulong in Western Australia when he became a miner, owning his own mine. His first child was born near Clermont, the second in Emerald, the third and fourth in the Sydney area, the fifth and sixth around Charters Towers. He appears to me to have been a very restless man. He was naturalized in Charters Towers but I haven't been able to find his Naturalization papers only the certificate. The researcher told me that some Naturalization papers from Charters Towers where lost but I'm wondering if some could still be in Charters Towers. If I could get hold of these papers I may be able to find where he entered Australia and from what port he left Europe as I'm having trouble trying to find this also.

Can anybody give me any clues?

Regards,

June Welsby


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