Conrad Friedrich Anton Reese (1818-1899)

Conrad Friedrich Anton Reese (b.c. 1818 Holzminden, Kingdom of Hanover - d. 1899 Victoria Park, South Australia) was a builder in the City of Adelaide and both built and rebuilt the Duke of Brunswick Hotel in Gilbert Street.

Biography

Author: Benjamin Hollister. This text is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

In Germany

Reese was born in Holzminden.

In Australia

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Family

Friedrich and Caroline had seven children:

Name	Birth	Death	Spouse
Augusta Wilhelmine Christine	abt 1846 Holzminden	3 Mar 1908 Crystal Brook	Edward Cox 1865
Caroline Wilhelmine Emmy	12 Jan 1850 Melbourne, Vic (aboard the ship Emmy)
Johanna Caroline Wilhelmine	30 Apr 1851 Adelaide	07 Jan 1852 Adelaide	(died as infant)
Georg Friedrich	30 Jul 1857 Adelaide	09 Sep 1934 Adelaide	Mary Elizabeth Frances Tynan 1880
Friedrich Conrad Anton	12 Oct 1859 Adelaide	04 Jul 1961 Adelaide	(died as infant)
Emma Amalie	27 Dec 1861 Adelaide	19 Jul 1908 Dulwich SA	Joseph Henry Palmer 1880
Caroline Eleanora	28 Jan 1864 Adelaide	25 Jan 1926 Adelaide	Edmund Andreas Kruss 1881

Published Obituary

From The Register, Saturday 30 November 1878:

REESE. —On the 20th August, at the residence of his son-in-law (Mr. J. Palmer), Hanover-street, Victoria Park, Conrad Frederick Anton Reese, of senile decay, late of Winifred-street, South-terrace, in his 81st year. A colonist of 50 years.