"Bengalee" (Barque) - European Pioneers to South Australia - 1838

The barque Bengalee was 354 tons, Captain Thomas Hamlin, from Hamburg 10th July 1838, arrived at Kangaroo Island, 9th November, Holdfast Bay, 16th November & Port Adelaide, South Australia 19th November 1838.

The Bengalee was a barque built at Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1837.

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The Zilm family

• The Zilm family arrived in Australia at the beginning of a period of large-scale German immigration to Australia. This extended Lutheran family had fled their native Goltzen, a village in Brandenburg (a province then the centre of the Kingdom of Prussia) after religious persecution from Prussian authorities under King Frederick William III. Johann Christian Zilm, his wife Anna Dorothea Mattiske and their two young sons Johann Friedrich Wilhelm (known as Wilhelm) and Johann Friedrich (known as Friedrich) arrived in South Australia in 1838 aboard the 'Bengalee'.

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• Bengalee WikiPedia
• Bengalee SA Gov

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