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=== In Germany === | === In Germany === | ||
August Christian, known as August, was born on 4 March 1828 in Hamburg. Little is known about his early years , to date, but his obituary stated that | August Christian Knabe, known as August, was born on 4 March 1828 in Hamburg. Little is known about his early years , to date, but his obituary stated that the death of his parents led to him migrating to South Australia. He left Hamburg aboard the [[Steinwärder (barque)|Steinwaerder]] on the 30th of August 1848. | ||
=== In Australia === | |||
Knabe arrived at Port Adelaide on the 12th of January 1849. By August 1849 he was working for a William Gee, although not always being paid, with a claim brought before the courts for £3 in unpaid wages. He answered the call of the Victorian goldfields and left South Australia aboard the Lysander on the 23rd of December 1851 but, as with many of his fellow colonists, was unsuccessful in making a strike. | |||
By the 22nd of July 1852, August had returned to South Australia and soon set up his mattress factory on Morphett Street, a business he operated until 1886 when he was forced to retire due to ill-health, possibly due to effects of flocking on his lungs. He married Elizabeth Jane Williams at Holy Trinity Anglican Church on 22 July 1852, and the couple had 13 children before Elizabeth’s death in 1876. 6 of the children survived to adulthood, although Joseph August died at the age of 21, with 2 sons and 3 daughters marrying and having families. | |||
August remarried in 1879 to Frances Anne Hawkes (née Johns), a widow, and lived at his Elizabeth Street residence in the city until his death in 1903. | |||
==Family== | ==Family== | ||