Amsberg family

There were a number of Amsberg migrants to South Australia, who appear to be part of a single Jewish family:

Benjamin-Bernard Amsberg with Rose and Frederica
Julius Michael Amsberg
Gabriel Gustavus Marcus Amsberg

A major confusion is the dual naming of Benjamin/Bernhard Amsberg. Benjamin appears on the newspaper passenger list of the Victoria in 1848 with a Rose and a Frederica. Benjamin continues to appear in newspaper reports until 1854. This is the same period that B. Amsberg is appointed the Consul for Hamburg and Mecklenburg, a role that is later identified as filled by Bernhard Amsberg. A B Amsberg and his sister return to Europe a few weeks after the wedding of Frederica to Julius Michael Amsberg in 1851. A Bernhard Amsberg returns to South Australia on the Alfred in 1852, and a journal by his fellow passenger, Joseph Tuppeimer, identifies him as Bernhard-Benjamin. No death registrations appear for Benjamin or Rose, whereas Bernhard, Julius Michael, Frederica and Gabriel Gustavus Marcus buried in the Jewish Section of Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery. All were members of the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation. Both Gabriel Gustavus Marcus and Bernard list Malchin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin as their place of origin on their naturalisations, while Benjamin and Julius Michael do not have naturalisation records, although Julius Michael's birthplace is listed as Hamburg in the Hamburg passenger records.

Julius Michael lists his father as Michael/ Yeche-Eil, and an early court case for Benjamin lists a brother Julius residing in Hamburg and who continues to act as an agent for B. Amsberg & Co.

Benjamin-Bernhard Amsberg 1827-1902 - arrived with his sisters Rose and Frederica aboard the Victoria in 1848. Rose returned to Europe after her sister's wedding in April 1851. Bernhard accompanied her and returned to South Australia aboard the Alfred in 1853.

m. Elizabeth (1846-1893)

___1. Ermine Cicely (1868-1945)

___2. Ernest Bernard Thomas (1869-1948)

Frederica Amsberg (1824-1853) - arrived with her siblings Rose and Benjamin aboard the Victoria in 1848

________m. Julius Michael Amsberg (1819-1888)

___________1. No children

Rose Amsberg - arrived with her siblings Ferderica and Benjamin aboard the Victoria in 1848. Left the colony for Europe in 1851

Julius Michael Amsberg (1819-1888) - arrived aboard the San Francisco in 1850.

m.(1) Frederica Amsberg (1824-1853)

_____1. No children

m.(2) Alice Maud Barnard (1839-1924)

_____1. Caroline Mary (1861-1942)