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Recent AcquisitionsThe Coming of the Wends is a reprint and update, with added photographs, of the article by the late Pastor Rupert Burger which was first published in 1976. His meticulous research gives a clear description of who the Wends were, where they came from and how they lived. A German church in the garden of God: Melbourne's Trinity Lutheran Church 1853-2003 is a comprehensive history of the congregation over the past 150 years. The book also covers the early Lutheran churches at rural settlements such as Waldau (now Doncaster), Neu Mecklenburg (now Thomastown), Harkaway (Berwick), Scoresby, Germantown (Grovedale) and Waldkirch (Freshwater Creek). Westgarthtown: a history and guide, is a revised and enlarged edition of the booklet Westgarthtown published in 1998. Emigrants on the Alfred, 1848 translated and edited by Thomas A. Darragh, gives accounts of the voyage and settlement by the Alfred passengers Alois Kranewitter, Heinrich Luestner, Ernst Kaulvers, Michael Deutscher, Christiane Hiller, nee Petschel, and Andreas Albert. Courage, patience and persistence: 150 years of German settlement in Western Victoria by Elizabeth (Betty) Huf. This book tells the story of the communities of Hochkirch (Tarrington), Gnadenthal, Tabor, Byaduk and Warrayure. Herrnhut: Australia's first Utopian commune by William J. Metcalf and Elizabeth Huf, is the story of the settlement established in 1852 in western Victoria by Johann Friedrich Krumnow and his followers. Johann Kilian, Pastor: A Wendish Lutheran in Germany and Texas by George Nielsen. This is a biography of the leader of the Texas Wends. Wilhelmsburg: hell or homeward bound by Margaret A. Rowe-Keys, gives information on each of the 501 passengers on the Wilhelmsburg who arrived at Hobsons Bay (Williamstown) in August 1853. The Fingers of Australia and Silesia 1703-2003 by Glenda Dovile, comprehensively traces the history of the Finger family, both in Australia and Silesia, over the last 300 years. So this was Katyil 1876-1982 by R.T. Schuller is about the settlement of Katyil in Victoria's Wimmera region. It includes chapters on Katyil's early settlers, churches and cemeteries, schools, social life and wheat farming. |