Tour Notes for 40 Year Anniversary Bus Tour.
7 October 2023
Bethel-Lutheran-Cemetery
Ehrenfried-Arnold-QR-Code-Bethel.
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Bethel to Greenock
On Greenock Road from Branson Road to St Johns Road.
This land is Section 7597 Belvidere, 141 acres (57 hectares) and was purchased in 1856 by Ernst Friedrich Kruger. Kruger was the first husband of Johann Karoline Nitschke. Kruger went off to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields never to return. Karoline later married Carl Friedrich Arnold. (the fifth brother)
Johann Wilhelm Arnold (the fourth brother) purchased the farm in 1863. In 1868 Wilhelm died and in 1871 Johann Ehrenfried Arnold (3rd brother) purchased the farm at auction.
In 1878 Carl Friedrich Arnold (5th brother and now the husband of Karoline Kruger nee Nitschke) purchased the farm. It was then transferred to Ernst Wilhelm Arnold (2.3) (the 3rd child of Gottlieb) in 1883. Ernst owned this land for 25 years then it was purchased by his grandson Rodney Malcolm (2.3.9.1). Rodney and Margaret Arnold farmed on this land until they sold and moved to Lake Boga in Victoria in 1978.
Various members of the Arnold family owned this land for 115 years.
Greenock
Carl Friedrich Arnold (5th brother) worked as an ostler at the Greenock Arms Hotel for a number of years and purchased his first land. The Greenock Arms Hotel was at the corner of Murray Street and Adelaide Road where the War Memorial stands today.
Greenock cemetery drive down Murray Street then straight ahead into Koncke Street, turn right into Bevan Street.
Johann Wilhelm Arnold is buried here. Wilhelm died at Siegersdorf/Dorrien in March 1868 after being struck by a horse. His wife Maria was pregnant at the time and Maria Ernstine was born on 19 June 1868, she died on 31 August 1868 and is buried at Greenock.
Other members of the Arnold family buried here are Ernst Wilhelm (1.3) & Caroline Arnold (nee Wenke) – third child of Gottlieb and their son Wilhelm Rudolph Arnold (1.3.2).
Gloria Grace Arnold (1.3.9.2) daughter of Alfred & Hilda Arnold (1.3.9) (from the farm on Greenock Road) who died aged 5 months.
Wilhelm Adolph & Antonia Meta Bachmann (1.4.4) members of the Gottlieb branch.
From Greenock cemetery return back down Koncke Street to the main intersection then turn right along Adelaide Road which becomes Seppeltsfield Road.
Marananga
St Michael’s Gnadenfrei Lutheran Church.
Gottlob Arnold was a founding member of this Church in 1873. Gottlob and Gottlieb and their families worshipped here.
There are 19 members of the Arnold family buried here including Gottlieb and his wife Johanne Christiane (nee Bachmann) There are 13 members of Gottlieb’s branch in this cemetery.
Two Hands Winery – turn right at Neldner Road.
This building was originally the home and bakehouse of Carl Friedrich Arnold, the eldest son of Gottlieb Arnold. The land here was originally bought by his father, Gottlieb Arnold, and Carl Friedrich bought it from his father just six months before his father died.
Carl was born in Silesia and travelled to Australia with his parents in 1867 when he was sixteen years old. Carl lived the rest of his life in the Marananga area and died in 1940 aged 89 years.
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Return down Neldner Road to the corner of Seppeltsfield Road
On the left is where Gottlieb purchased 40 acres (16 hectares) being part section 87 on 13 April 1876. His son Carl Friedrich (1.1) took possession of it on 5 July 1911, and it was later passed on to his son, Friedrich Wilhelm (1.1.7) in 1940 and remained in the Arnold family until Friedrich Wilhelm’s death in 1961. It is on this land that Two Hands Winery is located.
Turn right and note the Marananga School on the corner.
Turn right into Seppeltfield Road on the right is section 80 (80 acres) which was purchased by Gottlieb Arnold on 13th April 1874 and sold to his son Carl Friedrich (Gottlieb Branch – Two Hands) on 2 April 1884
“The Louise” is on the corner of Stonewell Road. This property of 80 acres (32 hectares) was purchased by Gottlob in 1854 – this was his second land purchase. This is where Gottlob built his mud and stone thatched roof house and where the family lived until 1887. This is where all his brothers and his mother came when they arrived in South Australia. In 1869 was described as being fenced with 15 acres cultivated.
Turn right into Stonewell Road
On the left is part Section 82 (16 acres) which Gottlob purchased on 19 May 1853 for thirty-two pounds. This is the first land purchased in Australia by a member of the Arnold family. In 1856 this land was recorded as being cultivated and fenced with no buildings.
In April 1861 Ehrenfried purchased the other part of Section 82
Do a U turn and proceed along Stonewell Road to Section 123.
Gottlob purchased Section 123 on 5 May 1856. In 1869 this land was described as having no buildings and being fenced. It was 15 acres (6 hectares) and was cultivated.
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Dawn-Lorraine and John.