Emma Klewitz-Malpas (1826-1867)

Biography

Author: Benjamin Hollister. This text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

It is not known when the Klewitzes arrived in Adelaide, or even if they were related. The only migration record for a Klewitz is in 1849 aboard the Princess Louise for Friedrich Wilhelm Klewitz, a miller and teacher in the Barossa Valley.

The first instance of a teacher named Miss Klewitz is through an advertisement on the 16th of March 1850, stating:

“MISS E. KLEWITZ proposes taking a Few Young Ladies for instruction in the German, French, and Italian Languages, Drawing and Music, and the usual branches of Education in the English Language. Miss Klewitz was engaged in England in the families of Lady Norris and Lady Spencer. References are kindly permitted to Lady Young, J. B. Montefiore, Esq., and Captain O'Halloran. Applications for terms, to be made to Miss Klewitz, at Mrs Bray's, Tavistock Buildings. March 13, 1850.”^[1]

By 1854, a Miss Bertha Klewitz is running a school in Ebenezer Place, off Rundle Street. Neither Miss E or Miss Bertha appear in any other list of citizens or residents, and it appears that Miss E (presumably Emma Wilhelmina Philippina) had married William Malpas by 1852 when their son William Louis Klewitz was born, while it is known that Bertha married George Soward in June 1856. By July, the Misses Sinnott’s were running the school in Ebenezer Place, and advertising as the successors to Miss Klewitz.^[2] Madame Klewitz-Malpas advertises classes in Norwood for young ladies July 1863 to February 1865. ^[3] ^[4]

William and Emma Malpas had only one son, and Emma predeceased her husband, Emma dying in in 1867 (at age 41) and William in 1899. William Lous Klewitz Malpas married in 1879 and died in Queensland in 1889.

Family

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Published Obituary

References

↑ "Advertising". South Australian Gazette And Mining Journal. Vol. V, , no. 307. South Australia. 16 March 1850. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
↑ "Advertising". Adelaide Times. Vol. X, , no. 1764. South Australia. 25 July 1856. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
↑ "Advertising". South Australian Register. Vol. XXVII, , no. 5219. South Australia. 17 July 1863. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
↑ "Advertising". Süd Australische Zeitung. Vol. XV, , no. 5. South Australia. 3 February 1865. p. 6. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

External links

[1] "Advertising". South Australian Gazette And Mining Journal. Vol. V, , no. 307. South Australia. 16 March 1850. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[2] "Advertising". Adelaide Times. Vol. X, , no. 1764. South Australia. 25 July 1856. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[3] "Advertising". South Australian Register. Vol. XXVII, , no. 5219. South Australia. 17 July 1863. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[4] "Advertising". Süd Australische Zeitung. Vol. XV, , no. 5. South Australia. 3 February 1865. p. 6. Retrieved 12 July 2022 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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