This article was written for Alfons Frencl to publish in Serbska Protyka 2011 and was therefore written with German readers in mind. The Wendish Heritage Society Australia celebrates its 25th…

My involvement with Pella’s Fuller pipe-organ began in 1969 when I assumed my duties as Lutheran pastor in the Rainbow parish, which included Hopetoun and Pella. Two items were then…

Who would have expected to read about a community of Wends and Germans at Cooktown in North Queensland in the 1800’s? Kevin Zwar knew about the Hope Vale Lutheran Mission…

A talk on “The Wends in Victoria” was presented by John Noack, President of the “Wendish Heritage Society Australia” on Saturday 8 May 2010 at 2pm at a meeting of…

The Pribislaw brought almost fifty Upper Lusatian Wends to Australia, most of whom settled in Victoria. These Wends included the Graff, Hempel, Hoehne, Kaiser, Pannach, Rosel, Schuster, Seiler, Stephan, Wuchatsch,…

On page 37 of his book “The World of the Ancient Slavs”, Zdenek Vana has described the tragedy and disappearance of the Slavs who occupied most of north-western Europe during…

A german shearer and unionist called Samuel Hoffmeister has entered the debate about the background to Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson’s poem “Waltzing Matilda”. Samuel was involved in the dispute between…

An article with the title “Windish Lutherans at Home and Abroad” published in The Lutheran Quarterly, the theological journal of the Lutheran Church of America and the American Lutheran Church…

Most family history research relating to ancestors on passenger lists concentrates on the ships which sailed from Europe to Australia. Some of these ships disappeared without a trace, while some…

At least thirteen separate Noack individuals or families have so far been located on passenger lists of ships bringing settlers to Australia between 1845 and 1877. The question sometimes arises…