5 Carl Friedrich Arnold
Born: 7 April 1828 at Neundorf, Silesia.
Died: 17 November 1909 at Tanunda, South Australia.
Carl Friedrich Arnold (Charles) was born at Neundorf, Selesia and at the age of twenty-six travelled to Australia. He was accompanied by his older brother, Wilhelm and they arrived at Port Adelaide in October 1854 on board the ‘ Reiherstieg’. Their brother Gottlob had arrived in Australia in 1848 and Wilhelm and Carl were the next of the five sons of Elisabeth Arnold to arrive in Australia.
In 1857, Carl worked as a labourer at Angus Park which is now part of Nuriootpa. From 1859 until 1866, he purchased various parcels of land in Greenock, and he did some work as an ostler (a person who takes care of horses) at the Greenock Arms Hotel.
On 30 August 1865, Carl married Johanne Karoline Kruger nee Nitschke. She was a daughter of Wilhelm and Maria Elisabeth Nitschke who, in 1838 at the age of six, had arrived in South Australia with her family on the ‘Zebra”. The captain of the ship “Zebra” was Captain Hahn, a compassionate captain who helped the immigrants to make arrangements for settling on land which they named Hahndorf as a tribute to him. The Nitchke’s later settled in Nain not far from Greenock.
Johanne Karoline Nitschke had married Ernst Friedrich Kruger at Hahndorf Lutheran Church on 9 May 1851. Ernst and Karoline Kruger had four children, three sons and one daughter between 1853 and 1859. The first son died in 1859. Ernst and Karoline had purchased land near Greenock in 1856 and then Ernst went to the Victorian Goldfields about 1861, and never returned.
After Karoline married Carl Arnold in 1865 with four children from the first marriage, they went to live in St Kitts SA. Six Arnold children were born between 1865 and 1875 either at St Kitts or Greenock. Caroline Willelmine Mathilde, Johanne Ernestine, Anna Bertha, Auguste Lydia, Louise Caroline and Carl Friedrich. St Kitts was a Wendish community and Carl and Karoline were one of the early pioneering families to settle in this district.
Carl sold the farm at St Kitts in 1878 and they returned to farmland near Greenock where they remained until 1900. in 1902 they retired to Tununda. Carl died in 1909 and is buried at Langmeil Lutheran Church Cemetry at Tununda. Karoline died in 1911 and is also buried at Langmeil Lutheran Church Cemetry at Tanunda.