Family Tree Interests

Hi,

I never thought I would start a blog, but my attempts to polish a family tree into a format fit to publish on a website have failed. I’ve found my discoveries quickly overtake the content and it is too hard to get the mix of public and private information to balance. I am hoping that by making some posts online I may find other people researching the same family lines and share some information.

I am particularly interested in the Australian Watter family. My Watter family immigrated to Austalia in 1884 from Prussia. I was always told they were from Germany, but now I realize they came from an area which is now part of Poland. If you are Australian with any link to this surname it is likely we are related, it is also likely that I am already aware of where you fit into the family tree. If at all interested please feel free to contact me.

As this is my first post, I’ll keep it brief by detailing the first generation of interest to me:

Carl Ludwig Wilhelm WATTER was born on 15 Mar 1810 in Zlocieniec, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (was Falkenberg, Prussia). He was christened on 18 Mar 1810 in Zlocieniec and died on 12 Jan 1885 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld/Schonfeldt, Pommern, Prussia). On the death certificates of his children who immigrated to Australia he is listed as being a Blacksmith by trade.  I believe his parents were Carl Bogislaw WATTER and Charlotte VOGT.

His wife, Dorothea Sophia PAHNKE was the daughter of Andreas PAHNKE and Dorothea Sophia BRUNK and was born on 11 Mar 1812 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld/Schonfeldt, Pommern, Prussia). She died on 26 Dec 1888 in Zensko.

 They had the following children & possibly others:

 i. Auguste Wilhelmine Louise WATTER was born on 11 Oct 1838 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld, Pommern, Prussia). She died on 27 Oct 1910 in Kalisz Pomorski, Pomorskie, Poland (was Kallies, Germany). She married August Wilhelm BRIESE on 31 Oct. Descendents of this family still live in Germany.

 ii. Karl Ludwig WATTER was born on 28 Apr 1846 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld, Pommern, Prussia). He died on 24 Jun 1923 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld, Pommern, Prussia). He married Henriette Auguste GENRICH. Descendents of this family still live in Germany.

 iii. Ottilie WATTER was born on 28 Feb 1853 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld, Pommern, Prussia). She married Edward Herman Albert IKER in 1875 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld, Pommern). She died on 22 Mar 1939 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

 iv. Gustav Eduard Ferdinand WATTER was born on 30 May 1855 in Zensko, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Schonfeld, Pommern, Prussia). He married Augusta Wilhelmine Louise RUCKERT about 1874 in Zlocieniec, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland (Falkenburg, Dramburg, Prussia). He died on 11 Nov 1916 in Teviotville, Queensland, Australia.

Gustav is my Great, Great Grandfather. One of his sons, George Franz Gotthard Watter was my Great Grandfather. In my next post I will attempt to detail more about Gustav and his immediate family. 

In the future I also hope to discuss other family names of interest to me. These include DOWER, CORDNER, SONNENBURG, NUTTALL, CLEGG, STEVENS, TONER, TAYLOR, TYLER, NORMAN, HARVEY.

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