Person:Johann Haupt (7)

Johann Christian Christopher Haupt
Facts and Events
Name[1] Johann Christian Christopher Haupt
Alt Name Known as "Christian" _____
Gender Male
Birth[1] 28 Mar 1818 Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Preußen, Germany
Marriage 25 Oct 1846 Timmenrode Lutheran Church, Saxony Annalt, Prussia (now in Sachsen Anhalt, Germany)to Johanne Christiane Elizabeth Fuchs
Emigration[5] 12 May 1866 Sailed from Hamburg
Immigration? 20 Aug 1866 Arrived at Brisbane on the Ship " Beausite". Ship Departed Hamburg May 12, 1866
Occupation[6] 1878 Shoemaker
Medical[4] leg amputated in Brisbane as a result of an accident on board the ship Beausite enroute to Australia
Residence? Yengarie, Ellena Street, Maryborough, Queensland
Death? 24 Jan 1903 Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Burial[2][3] 26 Jan 1903 Bundaberg Cemetery, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

From the book, "Bundaberg District Pioneers" (date and publisher unknown):

Haupt, Christian, son of Christopher Haupt and Elena Jensen, born 1818, (Duchy of) Holstein, (now in Germany); died 24 January, 1903.......occupation, shoemaker; religion, Lutheran; resided 29 Barolin street, Bundaberg - married Femrode, Branswick, Germany to Christina Fuchs (Caroline), daughter of Alias Fuchs (Fox/Fogts) and Johanne Veiman - born 1822 Branswick, Germany, died 23 January, 1885, buried Maryborough - religion, Lutheran - children: John Peter F (1849-1928), Ernst Carl J. (1850-1925), Robert Peter H. (1825-1939), Johan Conrad F. (1857- 1930), Elizabeth Mathilde A. (1859 - ), Adele (1862-1866 died on ship). On arrival settled Yengarie; built "Young Australian Hotel" in Maryborough, said to have been exploited due to inability to speak or read English and forced into bankruptcy after court cases; moved to Bundaberg 1885.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Research of Mrs. F.K.Wetzenstein, Kiel, Germany, 1983.
  2. Genealogical Society of Queensland letter of 13 Nov, 1984.
  3. Bundaberg, Queensland, website www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/srch cemetery.
  4. Complaint of Christian Haupt, Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1877.

    "...during the passage here had the misfortune to have my lag broken by one of the ship's spars, and after being twenty-eight weeks in the Brisbane Hospital had to undergo amputation....."

  5. Complaint of Christian Haupt, Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1877.
  6. Marriage Certificate for Samuel and Elizabeth Wicks, Colony of Queensland, A 87432, 1878.