A long biographical obituary of Johann Carl Pech of Appila, read in full via Trove's OCR this session. Contemporaneous and detailed, but an obituary is family recollection set in type, so quality 2.
With his parents he left Hamburg, in December 1850, in the sailing vessel "Australia" arriving in South Australia after a voyage of 16 weeks, Captain Johann Meyer being in charge, the ship having 200 souls on board. The voyage-was made via Cape of Good Hope, no calls being made on the trip.
This INDEPENDENTLY CORROBORATES the compiled Moad family sheet cited in the applied proposal #1914, which gives his immigration as "im. 15 Dec 1850, 'Australia', age: 9" — same ship, same month, and a compiled site could not plausibly have invented the captain, the passenger count and the route. A DISCREPANCY WORTH NOTING: the sheet's 15 Dec 1850 must be the DEPARTURE, since a sixteen-week voyage from Hamburg in December 1850 lands in South Australia about April 1851. The event is therefore dated to the departure and typed as an emigration. The obituary adds that his father settled first at Rosenthal near Gawler, threshing wheat with flails at Lyndoch for eightpence a bushel, before the family moved to the Angaston district as tenant farmers of George Fife Angas.
He was a loyal supporter and member of the Pine Cteek Lutheran Church, in the graveyard of which his body was interned on Friday last.
Quoted as the OCR renders it, misspellings included. The paper is dated Friday 16 February and he died Thursday 9 February, so "Friday last" is 10 February 1934; the event carries the month rather than that inference. Note for future work: the Australian Cemeteries Index does NOT cover Pine Creek Lutheran Cemetery, Appila — tested directly — which is why this family is largely absent from it despite being buried in South Australia.
In 1871 he was married to. Miss Christiana Stiller, of Bethany, near Tanunda, who predeceased him in 1914. ... A family of three sons, Messers Trangott, (Appila) Ernest (Laura) Johann (Appila), and three daughters, Mesdames J. C. Wegner (Pine Creek) H. C. Jaeschke (Yan-diah) and W. Wurst (Laura) survive. Mr. Hermann Pech predeceased his father some years ago.
Two passages from the obituary, separated by an ellipsis where the intervening biography is omitted. It confirms the 1871 marriage year and his wife's death in 1914, both already recorded. THE MARRIAGE PLACE REMAINS UNRESOLVED and is untouched: the tree says Angaston, the Moad sheet says Langmeil, this says the bride was "of Bethany, near Tanunda" — which is where her sister Johanne Ernestine's headstone also says she was born. All three are Barossa places within a few kilometres and none of the three sources is a register. The surviving-children list is the evidence for identifying the seventh child below, and "Mr. Hermann Pech predeceased his father" is one of three proofs that #55430 is Paul Hermann.
Mr. Johann Carl Pech, a resident of Appila district since 1873, having in that year selected land in the Hundred of Appila for far-ming, died at his residence on Thursday, February 9, at the age of 93 years and 7 months, having been born at Bantzen, Saxony, on 10th. December, 1841.
The opening sentence, quoted as the OCR renders it. It confirms the birth and death dates the tree already holds, to the day. "Bantzen" is Bautzen; the tree records the birthplace more precisely as Eulowitz, a village in the Bautzen district, so nothing is changed. The obituary also records that he selected half a square mile in the Hundred of Appila in 1873, was "a loyal supporter and member of the Pine Cteek Lutheran Church", and in 1900 toured Saxony, the German States, Austria and the Paris Exposition with his wife for four months.
and three daughters, Mesdames J. C. Wegner (Pine Creek) H. C. Jaeschke (Yan-diah) and W. Wurst (Laura) survive.
IDENTIFIED BY ELIMINATION, NOT BY NAME — read this before relying on it. The obituary names three surviving daughters by their husbands' surnames only. The tree already identifies two of them: Johanna Caroline Bertha #55422 married a Wegner, and Anna Christiana Lydia #57278 married a Wurst. The compiled sheet lists exactly three daughters, so the third, Mrs H. C. Jaeschke of Yandiah, must be Hanna Laura Maria. That is inference from a closed set, not a statement, which is why this citation is quality 1 and why NO MARRIED SURNAME IS RECORDED for her. Corroborating but not proving: a Councillor H. C. Jaeschke of Yandiah is named as a surviving son in his own father's 1933 obituary, and "Councillor and Mrs H. C. Jaeschke, of Yandiah" appear together in the Laura Standard of 26 October 1934. Her brother Paul Hermann had married into the same Jaeschke family in 1910.