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=== In Germany === | === In Germany === | ||
Leopold Conrad was born in the southern Hanoverian town of Duderstadt on October 4, 1838 to Franz Phillip Conrad, a shoemaker, and his wife Wilhelmine Catharine Käsehagen. <ref> {{cite book |last= Specht|first= Raymond|author-link= |date= 2009|title= The flight of The Woodpecker|url= |location= St. Lucia, Queensland|publisher= Raymond Specht|page= |isbn=978-0-646-50726-2}}</ref> While Hanover was a Protestant state, Duderstadt, | Leopold Conrad was born in the southern Hanoverian town of Duderstadt on October 4, 1838 to Franz Phillip Conrad, a shoemaker, and his wife Wilhelmine Catharine Käsehagen. <ref> {{cite book |last= Specht|first= Raymond|author-link= |date= 2009|title= The flight of The Woodpecker|url= |location= St. Lucia, Queensland|publisher= Raymond Specht|page= |isbn=978-0-646-50726-2}}</ref> While Hanover was a Protestant state, Duderstadt, having been part of the personal estate of the Archbishop of Mainz, was primarily Catholic, and the Conrad family subscribed to this denomination. At the age of 13, Leopold was apprenticed to his uncle, Leopold Käsehagen, a butcher in Duderstadt. After three years he was deemed to have completed his training and gained employment as a journeyman in Celle, north-east of the city of Hanover and some 160 kilometres north of Duderstadt. | ||
In 1857, along with his aunt Anna Regina Heuzenröder (née Käsehagen), her husband and children, and three Käsehagen cousins (Carl Phillip, a butcher, Eduard Leopold, a shoemaker, and | |||
=== In Australia === | === In Australia === | ||