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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 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
m. 03 May 1836 Emma COWIE (1807 - 1880) at Campbell, Tasmania, Australia
d. 22 Aug 1868 at Ireland aged 59
Near Relatives of John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Christian Ludwig Baron VON STIEGLITZ 16 Feb 1724 Leipzig, Germany 04 May 1772 48
Grandmother Christiane Friederike RICHTER 19 Dec 1736 Leipzig, Germany
Grandfather John ATKINSON 16 Jul 1752 20 Aug 1824 72
Grandmother Eliza HENDERSON 1750

Father in Law George COWIE 1761 1829 68
Mother in Law Rachel BUXTON 1769 1846 77

Father Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ 1762 Saxony 08 Jun 1824 Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland 62
Mother Charlotte ATKINSON abt 1784 Lewis Hill, Co Armagh, Ireland 22 Nov 1852 Ballan, Victoria, Australia 68

Self John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ 1809 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 22 Aug 1868 Ireland 59

Wife Emma COWIE 13 Nov 1807 Middlesex, England 01 Nov 1880 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 72

Brother Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ 13 Oct 1803 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 14 May 1866 Glen, Co Armagh, Ireland 62
Sister Elizabeth Caroline VON STIEGLITZ 1805 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 1870 Victoria, Australia 65
Brother Henry Lewis VON STIEGLITZ 13 Jan 1808 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 06 Jul 1876 Nile, Tasmania, Australia 68
Brother Francis Walter VON STIEGLITZ bef 29 Dec 1811 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 14 Apr 1889 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 77
Sister Charlotte Christine VON STIEGLITZ 1812 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 03 Apr 1879 Tasmania, Australia 67
Brother Robert William VON STIEGLITZ 04 Aug 1816 Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland 18 Mar 1876 Drumindony, Co Down, Ireland 59
Brother Charles Augustus VON STIEGLITZ 1819 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 26 Jul 1885 Rostrevor, Co Down, Ireland 66

Uncle Christian VON STIEGLITZ 12 Dec 1756 Leipzig, Germany 17 Jul 1836 79
Aunt Amalie Louise REINHARD 17 Feb 1783 Leipzig, Germany
Uncle Freiderich Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ 13 Feb 1758 Leipzig, Germany 04 Oct 1777 19
Uncle Caspar 'Karl' VON STIEGLITZ 21 Jun 1760 Saxony 1805 45
Aunt Agnes ATKINSON
Uncle Edward ATKINSON
Aunt Eliza ATKINSON
Uncle Francis ATKINSON
Aunt Magdalen ATKINSON
Uncle Frank WHITE
Aunt Maria ATKINSON
Uncle William ATKINSON
Uncle Robert ATKINSON 1783
Aunt female SPARROW

Nephew Edward ATKINSON
Nephew Frederick ATKINSON
Nephew Henry ATKINSON
Niece Marianne ATKINSON
Nephew William ATKINSON
Niece Frances ATKINSON 1840 1852 12
Niece Charlotte ATKINSON 1841 1850 9
Niece Agnes Eliza ATKINSON abt 1843 17 Mar 1909 Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia 66
Nephew Richard VON STIEGLITZ
Niece Jessie VON STIEGLITZ 12 Oct 1835 Avoca, Tasmania, Australia 28 Dec 1913 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 78
Nephew Frederick Lewis VON STIEGLITZ 31 Mar 1837 Avoca, Tasmania, Australia 16 Dec 1913 Prospect, Tasmania, Australia 76
Nephew Henry Gordon VON STIEGLITZ 05 Feb 1839 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 21 Feb 1906 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 67
Niece Charlotte Mary VON STIEGLITZ 29 Jul 1840 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 14 Nov 1906 Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia 66
Nephew Adam Douglas VON STIEGLITZ 07 Jun 1842 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 17 Oct 1899 Longford, Tasmania, Australia 57
Nephew John Charles VON STIEGLITZ 18 Nov 1844 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 26 Aug 1916 Springwood, New South Wales, Australia 71
Nephew William Robert VON STIEGLITZ 01 Sep 1846 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 14 Feb 1910 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 63
Niece Helena Margaret VON STIEGLITZ 08 May 1848 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia
Nephew Walter Francis VON STIEGLITZ 1850 11 Jul 1852 Victoria, Australia 2
Niece Emma Selina VON STIEGLITZ 1851 Swansea, Tasmania, Australia 09 Nov 1950 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 99
Nephew Lewis Frederick VON STIEGLITZ 09 Apr 1841 Tasmania, Australia 06 Apr 1869 Wedbly, Herefordshire, England 27
Niece Christina VON STIEGLITZ 01 Jun 1842 Tasmania, Australia 05 Aug 1888 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 46
Nephew Augustus Francis VON STIEGLITZ 30 Dec 1844 Tasmania, Australia
Nephew Edgar Boyne VON STIEGLITZ 01 Jul 1847 Tasmania, Australia 29 Jul 1918 Clayfield, Queensland, Australia 71
Niece Selina Anne VON STIEGLITZ 1849 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 15 Dec 1903 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 54
Nephew Caspar Harry VON STIEGLITZ 17 Dec 1851 Tasmania, Australia 29 Dec 1891 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 40
Niece Florence Elizabeth VON STIEGLITZ 22 May 1853 Tasmania, Australia 20 Jun 1891 Tasmania, Australia 38
Niece Mary Jane VON STIEGLITZ 22 May 1854 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 1885 Longford, Tasmania, Australia 31
Nephew Oscar Ernest VON STIEGLITZ 27 Sep 1856 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 27 Aug 1914 Queensland, Australia 57
Nephew Tasman Blacker VON STIEGLITZ 06 Mar 1860 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 16 Apr 1919 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 59
Niece Adelaide Mary VON STIEGLITZ 1848 Ireland
Niece Elizabeth Charlotte VON STIEGLITZ 06 Dec 1855 Co Dublin, Ireland 20 Aug 1915 Norwich, Norflok, England 59
Niece Florence Marcella VON STIEGLITZ 28 Jun 1861 Ireland 12 Aug 1910 Germany 49
Niece Augusta Sophia VON STIEGLITZ 29 Aug 1866 Ireland
Niece Mary COWIE 1837 Tasmania, Australia 1928 91

Sister in Law Jane COWIE
Brother in Law Robert COWIE 1802 1884 82
Brother in Law Edward COWIE 1804 1845 41
Brother in Law John Anthony COWIE 13 Apr 1806 England 07 Jan 1875 Ireland 68
Sister in Law Rachel COWIE 1809 1817 8
Sister in Law Georgiana COWIE 1811 1899 88
Sister in Law Catherine Christiana MCNALLY abt 1789 17 Aug 1857 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 68
Sister in Law Hester Anne BLACKER Jan 1899
Brother in Law Francis Morton (Captain) ATKINSON 1783 Ireland 11 Aug 1850 Beremboke, Victoria, Australia 67
Sister in Law Helen AMOS 23 Dec 1811 Heriot, Midlothian, Scotland 24 Sep 1890 Evandale, Tasmania, Australia 78
Sister in Law Anne RANSOM 1817 01 Oct 1892 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 75
Sister in Law Marcella BELCHER 11 Sep 1828 Dublin, Ireland 1922 Rostrevor, Co Down, Ireland 94
Sister in Law Sophia Louise BELCHER 21 Oct 1825 Dublin, Ireland 25 Nov 1891 Warrenpoint, Co Down, Ireland 66
Events in John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1809 John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ was born Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
08 Jun 1824 15 Death of father Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ (aged 62) Cookstown, Co 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)
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