4 and the outside of the house was white washed, with a mixture of lime and water, also a small portion of Rickitts blue was added. The Mickan house consisted of a combined dining and living room and the size was approx 18 feet by 16 feet. The front bedroom was approx. 16 feet by 16 feet. The house fluer-passage, approx. 10 feet by 16 feet. The back portion of the house consisted of three skillion rooms, two bedrooms and one casual room. The size of the bedrooms were approx. sixteen feet by nine feet and the centre room was approx. 10 feet by 9 feet. The Mickans were thoughtful indeed, as every room was well ventilated, and contained ample light. The front room (mentioned earlier) had four windows each consisting of 12 panes, and they were fitted with narrow strips of timber accordingly, those strips were painted with white paint. The front bedroom contained three windows, which were the same size as those in the living/dining room. In the skillion rooms the windows were the same as the front rooms, but smaller in size, consisting of two windows in each of the bedrooms, and one window in the casual room. The floor of each room consisted of floor bards with nicely ingrained timber. The house floor consisted of a lime mixture flooring, and the casual room was, meaning the floor was a special brick flooring, and there was one verandah in the front of the house, and this also had a lime mixture flooring. The roof of the house was galvanized iron. There was ample room for storage above the front part of the house. The front bed room was Andreas and Anna’s bedroom, the two skillion rooms, the room to the north, was their younger son’s bedroom, namely Andreas, and the room to the south, was their two youngest daughters Lena and Elizabeth’s bedroom. Die alte Hauche, the old kitchen, which was built prior to the new home, was still used for preparing and cooking their meals, using an open fireplace. A camp oven was also made good use of. To the easterly direction of the Mickan's new home, was a very large hoff- yard, and this was situated to the front of the house, within which a large oven was built with stones from a local quarry, which was used for baking bread, yeast buns and kuchen, streusal cake, etc. etc. I shall leave this, to the imagination of anyone who may read this script. On August 28th, 1884 an event took place, namely the marriage of the Mickan's youngest son Andreas of Walla Walla, N.S.W. and Johanne Christianne Arnold, the Arnold youngest daughter of Gnadenfrei, South Australia. Three members of the Arnold family were married in a brief time. Christianne made all the wedding gowns, including her own. The wedding ceremony took place at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gnadenfrei, and it was a double wedding. Anna Arnold and Emanuel Hoffman, Christianne Arnold and Andreas Mickan, the Brautyoungfer, the Bridesmaid, meaning the chief Bridesmaid, for the Mickan wedding was Elizabeth Kleinig of Ebenezer, South Australia. The best man was Christianne’s brother, Gotthilf Arnold. Pastor Nickquet was the officiating Clergyman. I have been informed that they were very nice weddings. The music, singing and dancing, I have reason to believe, Christianne, never missed a dance. The festivities of those years, are grand moments. The honeymoon of Mr & Mrs Andreas Mickan was that they travelled by coach from Freeling, South Australia, approx. 56 miles in a south easterly direction and stayed at Adelaide for a while sightseeing. They then boarded a steamship at Port Adelaide, sailing to Port Melbourne, and stayed in Melbourne for a while, enjoying their honeymoon. The next stage was as follows; Travelling by train from Melbourne to Albury, N.S.W. staying for a few days, and finally the young couple, boarded the Melbourne to Sydney train, travelling as far as Gerogery, and were met there by their brother in law Traugott Pannach, in the family three seated buggy with the two light buggy horses, and taken home to Walla Walla. Andreas Mickan Junior, who was 8 at the time, was on the spot, when the conveyance came to a halt, and received their new daughter-in-law with “open arms”
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