The 2007 Wendish Annual Dinner, held in the Ringwood Lutheran Church Hall on Saturday 6 October 2007, celebrated the 150th anniversary of the 1857 ships from Hamburg to Melbourne. Seventy eight guests enjoyed a fine meal, and heard interesting spe...

I reckon that we had a pretty good time at Leongatha. I enjoyed all the talks, which included the Irish women, the Cornish miners' trek from Burra to the Victorian Gold-fields and available records relating to deserted and delinquent children. For...

The Freshwater Creek (formerly Waldkirch) congregation celebrated the laying of their church's foundation stone on 19 November 2006. As early as 1849, Dr Alexander Thomson, one of the founders of Geelong, was instrumental in bringing a number of G...

Bob and Betty Proposch of Yarrawonga, assisted by Clay Kruger, represented our Society at the annual Family History Expo held at Mulwala. Clay found it very rewarding to handle enquires from people interested in their germanic and wendish ancestry...

The Thomastown Lutheran Congregation (formerly known as Westgarthtown and actually in Lalor) celebrated the 150th anniversary of the dedication of its church building, which took place on 17 November 1856. The only older Lutheran Church building is a...

The Peters Hill Church's celebration of its 150th Anniversary was held on 15 October 2006 Peters Hill consisted mostly of Wendish settlers from Lower Lusatia when the St Peters congregation was formed in 1856. The first service was held in the hom...

The Society's 2006 Annual Dinner was held in the Community Centre at Calvary Lutheran Church, Greensborough. The Dinner celebrated the 20th Anniversary of our Society and the contribution of the Deutscher family to Australia. Guest speakers, Chris...

The closure of Zion/Neukirch Lutheran Church, Byaduk took place on Sunday 17 Sept 2006. The Byaduk area, south of Hamilton in Victoria, was first settled by Johann Rentsch, who purchased land there in August 1860. By 1865, other families, who were...

The early pioneer families of Germantown (now Grovedale, Victoria) were commemorated with the unveiling of a Memorial Stone at the Germantown Cemetery on 10 Sept. 2006. Local historian June Winter has researched the early German families, many of who...

A report of this activity appears in the August 2005 edition of our Wendish Society Newsletter which can be downloaded from the "Past Newletters" section of this website....