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Patrick Muller born 1954 is one of 7 children to parents Albert & Vonnie Muller. His mother Vonnie is 100 years old.
Patrick’s Great Great Grandfather Jacob & wife Annie with 3 young children migrated to Australia on Dec. 1854 from Hamburg Germany. Germans were assisted to emigrate if British could not supply the skills, mainly pastoral & wine industries. They travelled with 500 others on the ship Cateaux Wattel.
Jacob and his family then boarded the vessel Norma arriving in The Shoalhaven on 14 March 1955. He signed a 2 year indenture agreement prior to migrating to work for David Berry at Coolangatta. They lived initially in a house at Back Forest. Jacob was naturalised in 1861, he could then buy land. He remained all his life working on the Estate at Coolangatta, as a plasterer. He bought a house in 1880 in Berry St. Nowra. Deeding this to his son George in 1882 on his death.
George was to follow in his footsteps and became a builder after his father passed. Next son John (Johann) bought an initial 86 acres from John Hay part of the Meroo estate in 1893, when Estate lands were being sold. His brother George built John his house, ‘Pomona’. 5 generations of the Muller family were to grow up and farm at Pomona.
Today the house is heritage listed and was the heart of the Meroo community throughout the 20th century. John married Mary Host in 1877 and had 7 children.
His son Albert married Bridget Morrissey in 1912 and leased Pomona til 1941 then he purchased it. They had 8 children. Their son Albert stayed at Pomona and worked as a sharefarmer after he married Vonnie Walsh in 1948. They purchased Pomona in 1959.
For Pomona to survive; with the introduction of milk quotas in the 60s and 70s, extra land had to be purchased, even though farm practises and machinery were improving. It was a rapidly changing industry.
Patrick Muller, their son was to remain with the farm and bought Pomona in 1986 with wife Jeanette King from Pyree. he extended their land purchases. Their children also helped dairy farm. This is Patrick's story.
Some facts sourced from the publication Jacob Muller & the Shoalhaven published in 2011. A booklet produced by Katherine M Reynolds for Shoalhaven Historical Society. An extended family genealogy an emigrant story. Contact Therese Sweeney at [email protected] website:Theresesweeney.com main archive: sweeney.lib.uts.edu.au
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Richard Boxsell is a 5th generation Boxsell residing in Meroo Meadow on part of his families dairy farm. The Boxsell Bros ran a prominent dairy stud, breeding Illawarra Shorthorns from 1893 at Myrtlebank Meroo. They took out many ribbons at local shows along the east coast including Kiama, Berry & Nowra. Richard Boxsell represented in this photograph with wife Minnie Anna was an integral part to creating the family legacy. Boxsells lane is named in his memory.
His grandson Richard is engaged for this episode and reflects on many areas of the families life up in Kangeroo Mountain then in the high terrain where generations dairy farmed.
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Johannes Morschel migrated from Germany to Australia in 1854 after signing an agreement to work for De-Mestre of the Terrara Estate. Johannes witnessed the terrible floods of 1870 in Terrara that diverted the hub of the region- to Nowra; appointed as the new township centre a few years later. Johannes secured land in Boxsells Lane in 1893. His second eldest son Jacob and younger son John farmed the land with him. John settled in Morschels Lane which is named after the family.
Johannes had 13 children.
Jacobs grandson David Morschel has dairy farmed in Pestells Lane since age 9, moving from Boxsells Lane. After his father's death David took over managing the dairy farm from age 17. He is still there in Pestells Lane. As is his sister Anne, who lives down the road. David is an interesting character, was an inventive dairy farmer and has lived most of his life in isolation on the property.
Therese Sweeney managed to secure David's trust to participate in this important lane history.
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Introduces the listener to Therese Sweeney, Historian and her interest & experience producing dairying histories by immersing herself for years in communities. This new project aims to capture and publish the 20th century dairying history of Berry & surrounds through the voices of the descendants; their life stories, memories and anecdotes of ancestors and their hardships and victories as farmers and early settlers. Toward a regional history, pioneers who laid the foundations in developing the dairy industry to what it is today in Australia. dairying was the primary industry in the Shoalhaven region throughout the 20th century.
Therese engages a leading local historian from Berry and a 5th generation farmer in this first episode to position the work from the late 19th century. An overview if you like, as to what to expect in episodes to follow, the themes and thos families to be engaged whom the lanes are named after from Bomaderry to Berry NSW..
