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John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868)
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John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868)

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Emma COWIE (1807 - 1880)
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


John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ Emma COWIE

John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ
John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ Emma COWIE John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ
b. 1809 at Armagh, Ireland
m. 03 May 1836 Emma COWIE (1807 - 1880) at Campbell, Tasmania, Australia
d. 22 Aug 1868 at Ireland aged 59
Parents:
Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ (1762 - 1824)
Charlotte ATKINSON (1784 - 1852)
Siblings (7):
Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ (1803 - 1866)
Elizabeth Caroline VON STIEGLITZ (1805 - 1870)
Henry Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1808 - 1876)
Francis Walter VON STIEGLITZ (1811 - 1889)
Charlotte Christine VON STIEGLITZ (1812 - 1879)
Robert William VON STIEGLITZ (1816 - 1876)
Charles Augustus VON STIEGLITZ (1819 - 1885)
Events in John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1809 John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ was born Armagh, Ireland
08 Jun 1824 15 Death of father Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ (aged 62) Cookstown, Tyrone, Northern Ireland
03 May 1836 27 Married Emma COWIE (aged 28) Campbell, Tasmania, Australia
22 Nov 1852 43 Death of mother Charlotte ATKINSON (aged 68) Ballan, Victoria, Australia
22 Aug 1868 59 John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ died Ireland
Personal Notes:
Two other brothers, John Lewis (1809-1868) and Robert William von Stieglitz (1816-1876), 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. 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.

The massive population growth of 1839 to 1841 placed enormous pressure on the capacity of the new colony to adequately supply the needs and wants of the thousands of recently arrived immigrants (Boys 1959, pp.117 & 129). Some, like John von Stieglitz and his wife Emma, were relatively well off and could probably afford to bring significant amounts of portable material culture with them on their voyage to the new land, while others had to select from what was made available to them in the retail establishments of Melbourne. The extent and nature of some of the portable material culture available to a well-off squatter and his wife in the year 1841 can be seen in Emma von Stieglitz’s watercolour painting depicting the interior of their home (Figure 1). The presence of books, artworks and a piano on the right-hand side of the room, for example, are clear demonstrations of their owner’s social status (Lane & Serle 1990, p.64).
Figure 1 Interior of a Squatter’s Hut at Port Phillip (1841) watercolour painting by Emma von Stieglitz (from the collection of Mr. H.O.C. Gilbert; reproduced from Lane & Serle 1990, p.65)

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
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