Hermann August Louis Bockmann

Hermann August Louis Bockmann

Mr. Hermann August Louis Bockmann, formerly of Daveyston, aged nearly 90 years, died at the home of his son, Mr. O. Bockmann, Freeling. He was born at Lautenthal, Hanover, Germany, on September 6, 1846, and came to Australia with his parents in 1853, therefore being a colonist of 83 years. The family settled at Blumberg (now Birdwood), where Mr. Hermann Bockmann learnt his trade as a wheelwright. His marriage with Miss Johanne Louise Binder was solemnised in Blumberg Church on October 29, 1869, and as trade was slack about that time, the young people took up farming at Trial Hill, near Lyndoch. They continued there for about ten years, moving in 1879 to Daveyston, where Mr. Bockmann became a well known road contractor. Mrs. Bockmann died on December 25, 1914, as a result of an accident. She was driving a horse in a vehicle when the animal bolted, capsizing the turn out. Mr. Bockmann thereafter lived alone until about eight years ago, when he went to live with his son in Freeling. Of a family of eight sons and two daughters, one son died in infancy and another after he had reached manhood. The surviving members are:-Messrs. Harry and Louis (Greenock), Julius, Otto and Fred (Freeling), and Charlie (Adelaide), Mrs. E. Davis (Adelaide), and Mrs. Minnie Brook (Western Australia). There are 34 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren. His remains were interred in the Greenock cemetery.

OBITUARY. (1936, September 4). Kapunda Herald (SA : 1878 - 1951), p. 2. Retrieved October 18, 2016