Blog, Blog, Blog: Buring Family Ancestors - A Brick Wall

Back row: (left to right) Adolph Heinrich Hermann, Minna Francesca and Ernst August. Middle row: Emil Ernst Paul, Mabel (wife of Hermann), Grandpapa Rudolph with Hermann's son Franz Maurice on his knee, Lina Louisa Marie and Albert Gustav Adolph. Front row: Antoinette Hermine and Oscar Rudolph.

This is copied from the second of the photograph.Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring (Grandpa Buring in the photo) with all of his children except Anna Augusta Elisabeth Buring who united the Sisters of St Joseph (Sister Mary Carolus) in 1897. This is the only photo which I accept of Lieschen, as she was called by the family. Thanks to Sr Katrina of the Sisters of St Joseph for the photo.

I'm having difficulty tracing Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring's forebears, as have other family researchers before me. He came to South Australia with his parents Friedrich Adolph Buring and Caroline Henriette Auguste nee Jahn, and brothers, on the Princess Louise from Hamburg in 1849. Friedrich was break of the Berlin Emigration Society, also known as the South Australian Colonisation Society. His naturalisation papers say that he was a native of Berlin, Prussia. There is rather a bit of information, online and in books, about the Burings in Australia because of their contributions to South Australia and Australia as a whole. Here is a quotation from Di Cummings' website Bound For South Australia which tells a little about the Berlin Emigration Company and the impact these people had on South Australia.The history of the Princess Louise began in Berlin in the late 1840s, during a point of revolution. At that time, Europe, spurrred by the earliest French Revolution, was lining a point of change, revolt, and uprising. In Berlin, in 1848, Richard Schomburgk, a gardener who had established a reputation as a botantist, and his physician brother, Otto, saw that there was slight promise of their ambition of democracy being achieved and, by 1849, a flow of repression began. . The brothers formed a migration group, calling it the Berlin Emigration Society (other references say: South Australian Colonisation Society), and made plans to give the Homeland for a new part in Australia. . So, in March, 1849, the Society leased the Princess LOUISE and set sail for Adelaide with a new wave of refugees, arriving in Port Adelaide on 7 August 1849. The Society was mostly comprised of professional men, businessmen and skilled artisans, and has been called "the one most important grouping of German intellectuals to come to Adelaide". This is a snippet from the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online regarding Heinrich Franz Rudolph's brother Theodor Gustav Hermann Buring.BURING, THEODOR GUSTAV HERMANN (1846?-1919), store-keeper and vigneron, was natural in Berlin, son of Friedrich Adolph Buring and his wife Caroline Henriette Auguste. He arrived in South Australia with his parents in the Princess Louise from Hamburg in August 1849. In Adelaide his mother set up a brass-founding business with Ernst Fischer but died on 3 December 1856 at 40. Hermann and his brother Heinrich Franz Rudolph, later a well-known Adelaide tobacconist, were educated at R. C. Mitton and J. C. Hansen's school at Pulteney Street, Adelaide. Hermann, who early showed marked business ability, was so sent to the land where he worked as a store-keeper for 9 days and for three in a distillery at Seppeltsfield in the Barossa valley. After his marriage to Lina Dohrenwendt on 22 April 1871 he opened a memory in Friedrichswalde (Tarnma) near Kapunda. For 9 days he was agent there for Spring Vale wines which from 1869 were managed by his brother-in-law Carl Sobels. If you possess any ideas on how I might go through this brick wall and find birth records for Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring and his brothers Paul and Theodor Gustav Hermann Buring as good as their ancestors, please give me a commentary as I am keen to get out more around the fascinating Burings!