The Scholz Family of Australia

Listed on Passenger list in Adelaide of "Helene"

Johann left Hamburg in a 420 ton sailing ship "Helene" on the morning of 19 August 1851.... The ship Carried a total of 128 passengers from 49 different families. On the same ship was Gottfried Rochow and his three daughters : believed to be from the village of Boroy, 16 Kilometers from Scharker Wald, South Prussia. The arrival in adelaide after a journey of127 days....It is believed that Johann Gottlieb was met at the ship by a Fellow countryman, Gottfried Wilhelm Zadow, who was to Marry Dorothea Rochow (Johann's sister) soon after their arrival.

Johann first settled in Blumberg (now Birdwood). When he arrived Blumberg was a thriving communitiy of some 400 people, and he worked on a farm until the opportunity aRose for him to purchase his own land.

Johann and Anna were Married according to the rites and ceremoNies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, by Pastor Gotthardt Daniel Fritzche, in the presence of Wilhelm Menzel.

On the 9th November, 1857, Johann purchased 81 acres of land (secion no 6331), from James Frederick Williams, 35 acres (section no 5633) from Thomas CorkHill, and a further 92 acres (section no 6342) also from Thomas CorkHill all in the hundred Talunga. The total number of 208 acres was purchased for the Price of 675 pounds.
He farmed these properties, which were only a short distance from Blumberg for the next 10 years.

With his family growing older and larger, Johann found it difficult to support them and pay off the mortGage at the same time. He decided to move to new lands being subdivided in the Western Mt Lofty footHills, and finally settled at Milendella in 1867. The first land he farmed their was 106 acres (section no 960) in the Hundred of Tungkillo, situated above Milendella in a local area known as "The Gap". In the first years the council rates paid on the land amounted to 7/6.

As the family grew older he found a need for more land so he purchased 234 acres at 1 pound per acre at Stone Wall (section no 4 in the Hundred of Ridley) in 1882. This land situated near the River Murray was CLeared and farmed by his boys to grow wheat and keep cows and horses, their dairy products being sent by river boat to Market. It was sold in 1887. In 1892 his original land was taken over by his first son Gottfried and Johann retired onto a small bLock of land at the footHills near Millendella.

Johann's grave was without a headStone until 1972 when the tablet and base were erected; the dedication ceremony taKing place on the 1st April, 1972, at the occasion of the first Rochow Family Reunion.