Geo: 53.5534, 9.9922An amazing day, treading in the footsteps of my great-grandfather.Otto Rudolph Carl Sielaff was born in about 1855 in Lauenberg, in what was then Prussia. We know that he came to Queensland, arriving in Maryborough (or Brisbane) on 25 June 1889, on the Merkara ship. He married Hannah Blass (1876-1939) at Laidley in 1898, and lived around the Darling Downs (Gatton, Clifton North, etc, before retiring up in Hervey Bay/Wondai according to Electoral Rolls). My grandfather, Franz Carl Hermann Sielaff was born 25/9/11, in Toowoomba, when his father was 56, and was followed by siblings Wilhelm Carl Franz (16/6/13) and Roberta Doreen Emilie (Wendt) in 1915. Otto died 25/2/34 and is buried in Maryborough.The day today was focussed on what Germany/Prussia was like, when my great grandfather left, and the reasons that he might
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