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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
by Benjamin Hollister. © 2022. All rights reserved. This text may be reproduced with proper attribution of the author. | |||
=== 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, 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. | 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 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 Leopoldine, nursemaid to the Heuzenröders), Leopold migrated to South Australia aboard the ''[[Ohio]],'' arriving in February 1858. | ||
=== In Australia === | === In Australia === | ||
[[File:79 Hindley Street 1865 SLSA B-6312.jpg|alt=Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865|left|thumb|Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865 [courtesy SLSA B-6312]]] | Upon arrival in the colony of South Australia, Conrad began employment with George Clark, a butcher in the city of Adelaide, before beginning his own smallgoods manufacture and hawking business from rooms near the [[Earl of Zetland Hotel]] in Flinders Street. This location, on the corner of today's Gawler Place and Flinders Street, was very much in the German quarter if Adelaide, as well as near the Catholic church of St Francis Xavier.[[File:79 Hindley Street 1865 SLSA B-6312.jpg|alt=Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865|left|thumb|Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865 [courtesy SLSA B-6312]]] | ||