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Douglas, you wrote:
> There is a huge Voigt population in Australia, New Victoria-Barossa valley.
> Any idea when this emigration occurred?
You didn't mention any peoples' names, and I don't know what's meant by "New Victoria". However, regarding the Barossa Valley in the state of South Australia, the following might be relevant -
The following people travelled on the barge Steinwarder, leaving Hamburg on 25 August 1855, and arriving at Port Adelaide on 19 December 1855 :
- Christian Ludwig August Voigt and Friedericke Wilhelmine Voigt (nee Schulz).
- August's sister Charlotte and her husband Friedrich Schmidt.
- August's younger brother Rudolph Voigt.
August and his 2 siblings came from Parchen, in the povince of Magdeburg. (It's now in the "Kreis" of Jerichower Land, in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt).
August later (perhaps in the 1870s) wrote the names of his children as "Vogt", although he still wrote his own as "Voigt". His gravestone at Bethel, S.A. bears the name "Vogt". I am a great great grandson.
We don't know why the name was changed, except that both names exist and are pronounced identically in Germany. Vogt is the correct phonetic spelling. (Both names are badly mis-pronounced in the English-speaking world).
August and Charlotte's families (and perhaps Rudolph) in the first instance lived at Rosenthal (later renamed Rosedale, due to war-time persecution) in the Barossa Valley. In 1862, the Vogt and Schmidt families moved to Bethel (near Kapunda); those names are still well-known in the Kapunda district to this day.
Off-hand, I don't know exactly what became of Rudolph Voigt's family, but I can find out. Their family research has been underway for several years. A Vogt/Voigt research committee meets quarterly in and around Adelaide. The result will be a Vogt/Voigt/Schmidt history book, to be released next year - probably at the reunion.
I'm currently living in Germany, and have been successful at finding records in church books, for all of my ancestors *except* Voigt. Unfortunately, it seems that the church books in Parchen were destroyed in the war; the other ancestors all came from nearby towns - Güsen, Hohenseeden and Dretzel - where the books are all in hand.
If you need more info or phone numbers, feel free to e-mail me directly.
Brian.Vogt@eds.com
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