George James Borgert

M, b. 5 November 1885, d. 6 October 1953

Gilbert Frederick Borgert

M, b. 13 April 1893
  • Gilbert Frederick Borgert was born on 13 April 1893 in Brisbane, Queensland.
  • He was the son of Catherina Borgert.

Johann Nicholas Borgert

M, b. 23 February 1858, d. 16 January 1911
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert was born on 23 February 1858 in Germany.
  • He was the son of Johann Nicholas Borgert and Antje Beate Muller.
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert immigrated on 25 December 1865 to Mortern Bay with Johann Nicholas Borgert and Antje Beate Muller. Johan 35 and Antje also 35, travelled on the La Rochelle with their children Claus 10, Johann 8, Caecile 7 and Anna 4. Johann was a arbieter(worker). They departed from Burg in Holstein. On arrival in Moreton Bay the ship was held in quarintine because of a number of cases of typhoid and dysentry.
    "Ship La Rochelle, from Hamburg. In quarantine at Dunwich. C. Heussler and Co., agents.
    THE LA ROCHELLE.
    The ship La Rochelle has been ordered into quarantine. On her arrival at Cape Moreton on the 25th December, she was reported "All well;" but when Dr. Purdie visited the vessel on Thursday afternoon, in the Platypus, he found the immigrants in so delicate a state of health that he was unable to pass them. La Rochelle left Hamburg on the 5th August last, and on the passage to the Cape of Good Hope dysentery appeared, and carried off a number of children and adults. She put into Symons Bay, and remained there in quarantine for 35 days. The number of deaths up to the time of her leaving there was 42. Thence to Moreton Bay eight or nine fatal cases occurred from dysentry, and typhus fever also carried off several. Altogether there were 62 deaths, the last eight being from typhus. When Dr. Purdie visited the ship, there were five cases of typhus fever, but two of the patients have since become convalescent. The ship was in a very clean condition. The dietary scale, as is usual in most German ships coming to Moreton Bay, appeared to have been very low. Subsequently the ship has been towed to Dunwich, the Quarantine Station, and the passengers have been landed there and lodged in the hospitals. The latest reports concerning them are satisfactory as regards their health."


  • At the age of 23 years, 8 months and 9 days, Johann Nicholas Borgert married Hannah Auguste Wagland on 1 November 1881 in Queensland.
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert and Hannah Auguste Wagland appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1903 living at Mocatta Street, Goombungee. John was a labourer and Annie carried out domestic duties.
  • On 25 March 1903,his wife, Hannah Auguste Wagland died in Bororen, Queensland, at age 39.
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert died on 16 January 1911 in Queensland at age 52.
  • Johann was buried in Meringandan Cemetery.

Children of Johann Nicholas Borgert and Hannah Auguste Wagland

Johann Nicholas Borgert

M, b. 3 January 1826, d. 11 May 1911
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert was born on 3 January 1826 in Frielburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was the son of Claus Borgert and Cecilia Margaret Oldenberg.
  • At the age of 29 years, 1 month and 20 days, Johann Nicholas Borgert married Antje Beate Muller on 23 February 1855 in Bolk, Holstein, Germany.
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert and Antje Beate Muller immigrated to Mortern Bay on 25 December 1865. Johan 35 and Antje also 35, travelled on the La Rochelle with their children Claus 10, Johann 8, Caecile 7 and Anna 4. Johann was a arbieter(worker). They departed from Burg in Holstein. On arrival in Moreton Bay the ship was held in quarintine because of a number of cases of typhoid and dysentry.
    "Ship La Rochelle, from Hamburg. In quarantine at Dunwich. C. Heussler and Co., agents.
    THE LA ROCHELLE.
    The ship La Rochelle has been ordered into quarantine. On her arrival at Cape Moreton on the 25th December, she was reported "All well;" but when Dr. Purdie visited the vessel on Thursday afternoon, in the Platypus, he found the immigrants in so delicate a state of health that he was unable to pass them. La Rochelle left Hamburg on the 5th August last, and on the passage to the Cape of Good Hope dysentery appeared, and carried off a number of children and adults. She put into Symons Bay, and remained there in quarantine for 35 days. The number of deaths up to the time of her leaving there was 42. Thence to Moreton Bay eight or nine fatal cases occurred from dysentry, and typhus fever also carried off several. Altogether there were 62 deaths, the last eight being from typhus. When Dr. Purdie visited the ship, there were five cases of typhus fever, but two of the patients have since become convalescent. The ship was in a very clean condition. The dietary scale, as is usual in most German ships coming to Moreton Bay, appeared to have been very low. Subsequently the ship has been towed to Dunwich, the Quarantine Station, and the passengers have been landed there and lodged in the hospitals. The latest reports concerning them are satisfactory as regards their health."


  • In February 1869 Johann was granted conditional approval to select 40 acres of land at Meringandan.
  • On 18 March 1905 The Queenslander newspaper reported:- " FIFTY YEARS OF WEDDED LIFE.
    In the face of all the despairing things said about marriage, and the social problems that gather round it (including George Meredith's proposed marriage on lease), and, in the very teeth of the statement that 80,000 divorces were granted in the United States in the course of a year, it is refreshing to see an old couple who have lived together fifty years, and, using the phraseology of the comic song, these fifty years to them " don't seem a day too long."The couple shown in the photograph (reproduced herewith), Mr. and Mrs. Borgert, reside at Goombungee with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Dorries. They were married in Germany on the 23rd February, fifty years ago. In the same year (1855) they set sail for Queensland In the ship Laurence Schiller, which reached Brisbane the following year. What Brisbane— or, speaking more correctly, the Settlement -- was like then has been often told. By road, in a bullock-dray, creeping along day by day, they reached Toowoomba, and Mr. Bogert has resided on the Darling Downs since. This was the day of the squatter, when all the men moving about the country were either in the employ of, or were seeking employment from, this individual, who, in the heat and burden of those days, was pioneering and preparing the way for a new age. It has become fashionable in certain circles to malign the squatter and regard him as the modern Jacob, who has robbed Esau of his birthright ; whereas his day and generation represent a stage in the evolution of the Australian Commonwealth. Johann Nicolaus Borgert married Miss Outge Boorte Muller at Bolk, Holstein, Pastor Mua celebrating the marriage, in 1855.
    At the home of Mrs. Dorries, Goombungee, in 1905, a few friends and relatives assembled, by invitation, to do honour to the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lau (daughter) were present, also Pastor Guhr and other friends of the Fatherland. There was some singing of the "Watch on the Rhine" and other patriotic sentiments were expressed with equal fervour, all showing that love for one's country dies hard, if it ever dies at all. In fact it seems to fall under the category of hereditary traits that are transmitted in the blood. Sir Walter Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel" glorifies this theme, and the following stanza, cited recently by Lord Rosebery as "one of the most eloquent ever written about the Scottish exile" (though referring to another nationality), expresses in fervent language the feeling that burns within the heart of every true patriot:—"From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste ofeeas; 'Yet still the blood is Strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides" A. P. C.
    A GOLDEN WEDDING.Mr. and Mrs. Johann Borgert, who celebrated at Goombungee recently the fiftieth anniversary of their wedded life.(Photo, by A. P. Corrie.)
  • On 23 April 1905,his wife, Antje Beate Muller died in Queensland at age 74. Her death was reported in The Queenslander:- "Mrs. Borgert, the wife of an old identity on the Downs, died at Goombungee, and was buried in the Meringandan Cemetery by the Rev. G. H. Guhr (Lutheran). Only a few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Borgert celebrated their golden wedding, an account of which appeared in the "Queenslander." Forty years ago they landed in Queensland, and at once removed to the Darling Downs, where Mr. Borgert was in the employ of Mr. Hatton, butcher, of Toowoomba. Subsequently Mr. Borgert and his wife took up farming."
  • Johann Nicholas Borgert died on 11 May 1911 in Queensland at age 85.
  • Johann was buried in Meringandan Cemetery.

Children of Johann Nicholas Borgert and Antje Beate Muller

John Mark Borgert

M, b. 3 March 1882, d. 13 January 1951

Lillie Cecile Borgert

F, b. 15 June 1896

Louisa Borgert

F, b. 4 August 1889, d. 9 July 1967

Children of Louisa Borgert and Nicholas Christian Johann Peters

Matilda Margaret Borgert

F, b. 10 April 1892, d. 23 February 1965
  • Matilda Margaret Borgert was born on 10 April 1892 in Queensland. She was a twin to Alfred Ernest.
  • She was the daughter of Johann Nicholas Borgert and Hannah Auguste Wagland.
  • At the age of 19 years, 10 months and 25 days, Matilda Margaret Borgert married Ernest John Lewis on 6 March 1912 in Queensland.
  • Matilda Margaret Borgert died on 23 February 1965 in Queensland at age 72.

Peter Borgert

M, b. 28 December 1900, d. 29 September 1978

Unnamed Borgert

F, b. 6 April 1870, d. 6 April 1870

Walter Borgert

M, b. 13 August 1898, d. 1956
  • Walter Borgert was born on 13 August 1898 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Johann Nicholas Borgert and Hannah Auguste Wagland.
  • At the age of 29 years, 9 months and 27 days, Walter Borgert married Nora Vichie on 9 June 1928.
  • Walter Borgert died in 1956 in Queensland.

Wilhelm Borgert

M, b. 5 July 1883, d. 25 November 1967
  • Wilhelm Borgert was born on 5 July 1883 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Johann Nicholas Borgert and Hannah Auguste Wagland.
  • At the age of 28 years, 5 months and 1 day, Wilhelm Borgert married Elizabeth Harriet Martha Stephenson on 6 December 1911 in Queensland.
  • Wilhelm Borgert died on 25 November 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland, at age 84.

Anna Maria Bormann

F, b. 1888

Charles Edward Bormann

M, b. 1898, d. 1961

Charlotte Bormann

F, b. 1885, d. 3 October 1971
  • Charlotte Bormann was born in 1885.
  • At the age of 24 years, Charlotte Bormann married Frederick John Patzwald, son of August Patzwald and Henrietta Fredrieka Gust, in 1909 in Queensland.
  • Charlotte Bormann appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1913 living at Geham. Frederick was a farmer and Charlotte carried out home duties. His brothers William and Theodore also farmed at Geham.
  • On 7 June 1965,her husband, Frederick John Patzwald died.
  • Charlotte Bormann died on 3 October 1971.
  • Charlotte was buried on 5 October 1971 in Cabarlah Cemetery.

Children of Charlotte Bormann and Frederick John Patzwald

Frederick Ernst Bormann

M, b. 1899, d. 1974
  • Frederick Ernst Bormann was born in 1899 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink.
  • Frederick Ernst Bormann appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1925 living at Silverleigh. Fred was a labourer. His wife Violet Edith also appeared on the roll.
  • Frederick was the best man at the wedding of Nellie Ada Kahler and Herbert George Bormann, son of Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink, in June 1925 in Presbyterian Church, Geham, Queensland; Their marriage was reported in The Queenslander on 13 June 1925 - "A picturesque Wedding was celebrated at Geham recently. When Miss Nellie Ada Kahler (only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.J.P Kahler of Ivydale Geham) was married to Mr. Herbert George Borman (Calaborma, Cawdor). The ceremony which was performed by the Rev. A.M. Martin (Toowoomba), assisted by the Rev. A. W. Cossart, took place at the Geham Presbyterian Church, which had been artistically decorated with ferns and flowers. Asparagus plumbous and pink and white roses were arranged on the rostrum and stairs, and ribbon streamers twined with asparagus fern held a white and silver flower decked wedding bell over the bridal party. The service was fully choral. Mrs. N. C. Hansen presided at the organ, and during the signing of the register the children the Presbyterian Sunday School (of which the bride was a teacher) sang "O Perfect Love" The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a sleeveless gown of pearl white martiette, finished with pointed panels embroidered with coral pearl beads. An embroidered court train of the same material, lined with coral satin, fell from the shoulders, and was caught at one side with a large white satin bow and touches of silver. She wore a veil of white tulle embroidered in silver thread and caught under a coronet of orange blossom, and carried a sheaf of arum lilies and fern. Mr. Fred. Borman (brother of the bridegroom) was best man, and Messer's. Richard and Joseph Kahler were groomsmen. After the ceremony a reception was held at Ivydale, the home of the bride's parents, at Geham. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Borman left for Sydney and the Blue Mountains, where the honeymoon will be spent; the bride's travelling dress was a tailored suit of nigger brown gabardine, trimmed with brown fur, and a small felt hat."
  • Frederick Ernst Bormann died in 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland.

Friedrick Bormann

M, b. 1858, d. 2 September 1907
  • Friedrick Bormann was born in 1858. He was the son of Heinrick Bormann and Sophia Anike.
  • At the age of 22 years, Friedrick Bormann married Wilhelmina Utschink, daughter of Friedrick Utschink and Wilhelminia Gersekowski, in 1880 in Queensland.
  • Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1903 living at Forest Lodge, Cawdor. Frederick was a farmer.
  • Friedrick Bormann died on 2 September 1907 in Queensland.
  • Friedrick was buried in Cabarlah Cemetery. LUTH1-00E-0020.

Children of Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink

Henry Frederick Bormann

M, b. 1893, d. 1971

Herbert George Bormann

M, b. 1902, d. 16 September 1965
  • Herbert George Bormann was born in 1902 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink.
  • Herbert George Bormann and William Bormann appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1925 living at Cawdor. Herbert was a farmer and William a labourer.
  • At the age of 23 years, Herbert George Bormann married Nellie Ada Kahler, daughter of Joseph Phillip Kahler and Ann Hebbel, in June 1925 in Presbyterian Church, Geham, Queensland. Their marriage was reported in The Queenslander on 13 June 1925 - "A picturesque Wedding was celebrated at Geham recently. When Miss Nellie Ada Kahler (only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.J.P Kahler of Ivydale Geham) was married to Mr. Herbert George Borman (Calaborma, Cawdor). The ceremony which was performed by the Rev. A.M. Martin (Toowoomba), assisted by the Rev. A. W. Cossart, took place at the Geham Presbyterian Church, which had been artistically decorated with ferns and flowers. Asparagus plumbous and pink and white roses were arranged on the rostrum and stairs, and ribbon streamers twined with asparagus fern held a white and silver flower decked wedding bell over the bridal party. The service was fully choral. Mrs. N. C. Hansen presided at the organ, and during the signing of the register the children the Presbyterian Sunday School (of which the bride was a teacher) sang "O Perfect Love" The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a sleeveless gown of pearl white martiette, finished with pointed panels embroidered with coral pearl beads. An embroidered court train of the same material, lined with coral satin, fell from the shoulders, and was caught at one side with a large white satin bow and touches of silver. She wore a veil of white tulle embroidered in silver thread and caught under a coronet of orange blossom, and carried a sheaf of arum lilies and fern. Mr. Fred. Borman (brother of the bridegroom) was best man, and Messer's. Richard and Joseph Kahler were groomsmen. After the ceremony a reception was held at Ivydale, the home of the bride's parents, at Geham. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Borman left for Sydney and the Blue Mountains, where the honeymoon will be spent; the bride's travelling dress was a tailored suit of nigger brown gabardine, trimmed with brown fur, and a small felt hat."
  • Herbert George Bormann died on 16 September 1965 in Queensland.
  • Herbert was buried on 17 September 1965 in Cabarlah Cemetery. LUTH1-00M-0019.

Sophie Bormann

F, b. 1891
  • Sophie Bormann was born in 1891 in Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink.
  • Sophie Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1913 living at Cawdor. She carried out home duties as did her daughter Sophie. They lived at Forest Lodge.

Wilhelmine Sophia (Minna) Bormann

F, b. 1883, d. 1968

Children of Wilhelmine Sophia (Minna) Bormann and Albert Ferdinand Bruggemann

William Bormann

M, b. 1895, d. 1969
  • William Bormann was born in 1895 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Friedrick Bormann and Wilhelmina Utschink.
  • William Bormann and Herbert George Bormann appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1925 living at Cawdor. Herbert was a farmer and William a labourer.
  • William Bormann died in 1969 in Queensland.

Johanna Bort

F, b. 1827, d. 1873
  • Johanna Bort was born in 1827 in Willenburg, Germany.
  • At the age of 27 years, Johanna Bort married Gottfred Geyer in 1854 in Germany.
  • Johanna Bort died in 1873 in Tenterfield, New South Wales.

Children of Johanna Bort and Gottfred Geyer

Eleanor Bosanko

F, b. 9 August 1841

Henry Bosanko

M
  • Henry Bosanko married Eleanor Watters on 25 December 1834 in Crowan, Cornwall, England.

Children of Henry Bosanko and Eleanor Watters

Henry Bosanko

M, b. 11 March 1838

John Bosanko

M, b. 1883, d. 1883
  • John Bosanko was born in 1883 in Sydney. Died an infant
    1022/1883 BOSANKO JOHN JOHN ELIZA SYDNEY.
  • He was the son of John Watters Bosanko and Eliza Hooper.
  • John Bosanko died in 1883 in Sydney, New South Wales.

John Hooper Bosanko

M, b. 14 May 1884, d. 1953
  • John Hooper Bosanko was born on 14 May 1884 in Mount Hope, Sydney, New South Wales. (His army details show his year of birth as 1885.)
  • He was the son of John Watters Bosanko and Eliza Hooper.
  • John Hooper Bosanko enlisted in the Military on 3 May 1918 in Brisbane. He joined the AIF No 1300 as a Private in the A.N.&M.E.F. His next of kin was listed as John Walters Bosanko whose address was Church Street, Boonah (the house that once belonged to his grandparents John Hooper and Ann Burgess), he was single, 33 years and 11 months old and a well borer. In his application he stated he had once been rejected by the military because of his bubonic plague history. He was 5'5" tall, 128 pounds. He had blue eyes, brown hair and a dark complection. He was enlisted with the engineers and served in the Rabaul relief where he suffered several bouts of malaria. He was discharged on 3 July 1919.
  • On 23 September 1925 John Hooper Bosanko lived in 9 Oxford Street, Rozella, Sydney, New South Wales.
  • He was the informant of the death of Eliza Hooper on 24 September 1925 in Toddington Private Hospital, Paramatta Road, Petersham, New South Wales. She died from cancer of the stomach and general peritonitis.
  • John Hooper Bosanko died in 1953 in Liverpool, New South Wales.

John Watters Bosanko

M, b. 31 May 1844, d. 1932
  • John Watters Bosanko was christened on 31 May 1844 in Breage, Cornwall, England.
  • He was the son of Henry Bosanko and Eleanor Watters.
  • At the age of 37 years, John Watters Bosanko married Eliza Hooper, daughter of John Hooper and Ann Burgess, in 1882 in Sydney, New South Wales.
  • John Watters Bosanko died in 1932 in Balmain South, Sydney, New South Wales.

Children of John Watters Bosanko and Eliza Hooper

William Bosanko

M, b. 17 April 1835