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We are researching the history of the German Emigrant ship Susanne Godeffroy and the passengers who emigrated from Hamburg, Germany to Brisbane Queensland on the 1865 voyage. The aim of this research is ultimately to produce a book which will not only tell the history of this particular voyage, but also the story of the lives and fate of the 530 passengers who undertook this adventurous voyage to begin a new life here in Queensland.
We are mainly focusing on those from the ship and including the first generation born in Australia, but welcome more information anyone may care to give us, as it is amazing how many times in later generations that there is a connection between families.
We would be very interested in any further information, photos and details that any descendants might know of, with a view to including this information in our proposed book. We are also interested in any family stories, photos, certificates, old German Documents, where they settled and when and where they married, died etc. Basically, anything that will help bring these people to life, with the understanding that the information may be included in our proposed book.
Work is progressing well on the book but even though we have been working on it for two and a half years, we have found that taking into account the scope of the project, we think it will be at least another 12 months to do it justice. You can imagine that researching 533 histories will take us that long.
On the following pages, you will find more information regarding our project including a list of the Surnames of the passengers.