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| Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ (1803 - 1866) |
| Baron, J.P. |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ (1803 - 1866) + Catherine Christiana MCNALLY (1789 - 1857) Hester Anne BLACKER ( - 1899) |
Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ (1762 - 1824) | Christian Ludwig Baron VON STIEGLITZ (1724 - 1772) | ||
| Christiane Friederike RICHTER (1736 - ) | Johann Christian RICHTER (1689 - 1751) | |||
| Christiane Sophie RUCKER (1699 - 1750) | ||||
| Charlotte ATKINSON (1784 - 1852) | John ATKINSON (1752 - 1824) | Robert ATKINSON (1726 - 1806) | ||
| Mary Delap DUNLOP (1730 - ) | ||||
| Eliza HENDERSON (1750 - ) | Francis of Ahorey HENDERSON | |||
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| b. 13 Oct 1803 at Eglish, Armagh, Ireland |
| m. (1) 1834 Catherine Christiana MCNALLY (1789 - 1857) at Tasmania, Australia |
| m. (2) 14 Apr 1859 Hester Anne BLACKER ( - 1899) at Armagh, Ireland |
| d. 14 May 1866 at Glen, Armagh, Ireland aged 62 |
| Parents: |
| Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ (1762 - 1824) |
| Charlotte ATKINSON (1784 - 1852) |
| Events in Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ (1803 - 1866)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 13 Oct 1803 | Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ was born | Eglish, Armagh, Ireland | |||
| 08 Jun 1824 | 20 | Death of father Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ (aged 62) | Cookstown, Tyrone, Northern Ireland | ||
| 07 Aug 1829 | 25 | Emmigration to Tasmania | |||
| 1834 | 31 | Married Catherine Christiana MCNALLY (aged 45) | Tasmania, Australia | ||
| 22 Nov 1852 | 49 | Death of mother Charlotte ATKINSON (aged 68) | Ballan, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 17 Aug 1857 | 53 | Death of wife Catherine Christiana MCNALLY (aged 68) | Fingal, Tasmania, Australia | 1857/110 | |
| 14 Apr 1859 | 55 | Married Hester Anne BLACKER | Armagh, Ireland | ||
| 14 May 1866 | 62 | Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ died | Glen, Armagh, Ireland | ||
| Personal Notes: |
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VON STIEGLITZ, FREDERICK LEWIS (1803-1866), pastoralist, was born on 13 October 1803 in Ireland, the eldest son of Baron Heinrich Ludwig von Stieglitz and Charlotte, née Atkinson, and grandson of Christian Ludwig von Stieglitz who had been created a baron of the Holy Roman Empire in 1765. In 1802 the family moved from Pilsen, Bavaria, to a property known as Lewis Hill in Ireland and after nine years to Cookstown, County Tyrone. When the baron's death in 1824 left the family of six sons and two daughters poorly provided for, they decided to emigrate to Van Diemen's Land. Frederick Lewis, Francis Walter and Robert William von Stieglitz arrived at Hobart Town in the Lion on 7 August 1829.
Frederick, an active and intelligent young man in the lieutenant-governor's opinion, received 2000 acres (809 ha), which he took up near Fingal and named Killymoon. In 1830 he married Catherine Christiana McNally, (She was actually a widow called Widow ransom and her daughter Anne Ransom married Francis Von stieglitz the 2nd youngest brother) who owned an inn at Kempton. He bought a further 3000 acres (1214 ha) near Fingal and in the next decade built Killymoon House in stone in the style of Killymoon Castle, County Tyrone. In 1841 he was appointed a justice of the peace and in 1846 became a nominee in the Legislative Council on the resignation of the Patriotic Six. For some years he was a member of the Avoca Road Trust and in 1856 was elected to represent Fingal in the first elective assembly. After his wife's death in 1857 he sold Killymoon, to his step son Ransom returned to Ireland, assumed the title of baron, and became a justice of the peace for the Counties of Armagh and Down. In 1859 he married Hester Anna, the daughter of George Blacker and Anne, née Sloane. He died without issue on 14 May 1866. The second brother, Henry Lewis von Stieglitz (1808-1890), arrived in Hobart in the Juno in November 1830, bringing about £1600, and was granted 1500 acres (607 ha) at Apsley, naming his property Green Lawn. He died at Sunnyside, Nile, Tasmania. Two other brothers, John Lewis (1809-1868)married emma cowie and Robert William von Stieglitz (1816-1876), married a Belcher received no land in Van Diemen's Land but were among the first settlers at Port Phillip, where they took up sheep runs first in the Geelong district and later at Ballan on the Werribee. John also held Station Peak for eight years. In 1836 he married Emma (1807-1880), the daughter of George Cowie, bookseller and alderman of London. brother of Robert and John Anthony She was a talented artist, producing landscapes and botanical studies. John sold his 16,000 acres (6475 ha) at Ballan in 1852 and returned to Ireland, where he became a justice of the peace for County Tyrone. He died there on 22 August 1868 without issue. After acquiring 5000 acres (2024 ha) at Ballan and 192,000 acres (77,700 ha) at Lake Hindmarsh in the Wimmera, Robert also sold out and returned to Ireland, where he died on 18 March 1876. Francis Walter von Stieglitz (1811-1889), who had studied farming before he emigrated, was given a maximum grant of 2560 acres (1036 ha) at Fingal and called it Lewis Hill. In September 1843 he was appointed a justice of the peace for Fingal and in 1864 coroner, officiating both in Fingal and Launceston. In 1840 he married Anne Ransom, by whom he had six sons and two daughters. He retired to Launceston in 1880 where he died on 14 April 1889. The sixth and youngest brother, Charles Augustus (1819-1885), had been left at school when the elder brothers emigrated and he did not arrive until 1839. He joined his brothers in Victoria, acquiring 24,000 acres (9713 ha) at Durdidwarrah, Portland Bay District. He sold out soon after the death of his mother, the baroness, in November 1852, and returned to Ireland where he bought Knockbarragh Park, County Down, in 1859. He died there in July 1885. The family is commemorated in Victoria in the old gold-mining town of Steiglitz (so spelt), and in Tasmania in a township reserve at George's Bay. Charlotte Von stieglitz married John Anthony Cowie and they returned to england no children she came back to Tasmania after he died Select Bibliography K. R. von Stieglitz, The Centenary of Christchurch, Cullenswood (Evandale, 1948); Colonial Times (Hobart), 22 Jan 1830; Hobart Town Courier, 6 May 1836; Examiner (Launceston), 15 Apr 1889; CSO 1, 5, 8 and 24 (Archives Office of Tasmania). More on the resources Author: K. R. Von Stieglitz Print Publication Details: K. R. Von Stieglitz, 'Von Stieglitz, Frederick Lewis (1803 - 1866)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp 556-557. |