Person:Anna Stasinowsky (1)

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Anna Maria Stasinowsky
b.21 Feb 1865 Nain, South Australia, Australia
d.20 Dec 1949 Stavely, Victoria, Australia
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1848
  1. Johann Ernst Stasinowsky1850 - 1935
  2. Augusta StasinowskyAbt 1852 - Abt 1854
  3. Ernestine Pauline Stasinowsky1854 - 1953
  4. Johann Gustav Stasinowsky1857 - 1950
  5. Carl Heinrich (Harry) Stasinowsky1860 - 1946
  6. Gottlieb Stasinowsky1862 -
  7. Anna Maria Stasinowsky1865 - 1949
Spouse and Children
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m. 1882
  1. Frederick Charles William Leyonhjelm1883 - 1928
  2. Frank Eric Leyonhjelm1885 - 1960
  3. Alice Lily May Leyonhjelm1888 - 1965
  4. Charles Victor Leyonhjelm1890 - 1967
  5. Flora Harriett Leyonhjelm1893 - 1983
  6. May Stella Ivy Leyonhjelm1896 - 1973
  7. Norman Malcolm Leyonhjelm1899 - 1961
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Facts and Events
Name Anna Maria Stasinowsky
Gender Female
Birth[1] 21 Feb 1865 Nain, South Australia, Australia
Marriage 1882 Gnadenfrae, South Australia, Australiato Carl Malcolm (Charles) Leyonhjelm
Alt Marriage 14 Mar 1883 Adelaide, South Australia, Australiato Carl Malcolm (Charles) Leyonhjelm
Death[2] 20 Dec 1949 Stavely, Victoria, Australia
Burial[3] Dec 1949 Willaura, Victoria, AustraliaWillaura Cemetery

Anna Maria (Mary) was the youngest child of Johana Stasinowsky and Elenor Otto both of Silesia, Prussia. Silesia is today a part of Southern Poland and Prussia no longer exists. Mary's elder siblings were born in Prussia, Wilhelm 1848, Ernest 1850, Paulina 1852 and Johan 1854.

The family migrated to Australia on the maiden voyage of " La Rochelle" and arrived in Adelaide 3 September 1855. Henry, born 1858 and Anna-Maria, born 1865, both in South Australia.

The religious problems in Prussia, together with economic reasons, probably encouraged the family to emigrate to South Australia with 4 small children, where there was already a well established Germanic community.

The father was a stone mason and the family lived in various places in South Australia, including the Barossa Valley, before becoming wheat farmers on the York Peninsula at South Kilkerran.

Maria (aged 17) married Charles Leyonhjelm in South Australia in 1882. Charles said of Maria in a letter - I have a good wife - but not wealthy - everyone likes her. Fred was born in 1883 at Gawler, Frank in 1885 at Crystal Brook. They then moved to Maitland in South Australia and later to Pimpinio in Victoria where Alice was born in 1888, Charles was born at "Sheep Hills" in 1890 and Flora (Ruby) 1893, May 1896 and Norman 1899 were all born at Hopetoun in Victoria. The family lived in a wattle & daub house with a detached baking oven. They had a house cow, and after milking it a culture was added to the milk and it was then placed in a large hole in the ground, it soon became yoghurt which the children lived on.

In the early 1900's the family farmed at Strathkellar (near Hamilton)where her husband Charles died in 1922.

Maria was remembered as avery wonderful person, always a lady, kind and gentle, she qualified as being one of the true and great pioneer women of Australia. She died in her sleep aged 84 in an armchair at Stavely (her daughter Ruby's home) and was buried at Willaura.

References
  1. ↑ South Australian births registrations, 1842 to 1906. (Adelaide, South Australia: South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc., 1998 (Hampton, Vic. : MacBeth Genealogical Services))
    Book 31 Page 124, 1865.
  2. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Death Index, Victoria 1921-1985
    Reg No. 23953, 1949.
  3. ↑ Willaura Cemetery, in Ian Marr. Cemeteries of South West Victoria - DVD. (Marrtronics)
    Index No.9.
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