Summary

Family names mentioned in this article:

ALTMANN, BARTEL, BRAENDLER, BRAUER, CUNNINGHAM, GERLACH, HERBIG, HIMMLER, KLAEBSCH, KRAMM, KUCHEL, LAUBE, LIEBELT, LÜTZOW, MARTIN, McDONALD, MILLER, MINKWITZ, MUELLER, PAECH, PÄCH, RATTEY, RODERT, SCHÄPEL, SCHROEDER, STORCH, WOODBANK, WILSON, WUTTKE, 

Autographs cannot be accurately attributed to people if their full names have not been added to the page, the following names are the best match given the information available to the author to date.

Specifically:

• 2A Meta LIEBELT.
  • This autograph was written on 28 July 1897.  In researching for Meta I found an Ottilie Meta LIEBELT who was the 7th child & 1st daughter to Marie Louise MINKWITZ & Johann Friedrich LIEBELT & was born on the 28 July 1897 so could not have been the writer of the autograph. 
  • J.F. LIEBELT's parents were Johanna Caroline LUBASCH & Johann Gottlieb LIEBELT of Friedrichstadt.  Marie MINKWITZ known as Emilie was the daughter of J Gottfried MINKWITZ & Karoline Wilhelmine NAUCK.  This Ottilie Meta LIEBELT married Arnold Darwin RIX in 1920.  
  • This Meta LIEBELT was only born on 28 July 1897, Friedrichstadt.
  • The author believes this autograph was written for Meta's birth by another person, perhaps her mother. We will continue to look for other women called Meta LIEBELT incase this is not correct.
  • Ottilie Meta LIEBELT is a 1st cousin to Elsie KRAMM
• 3A Dora KRAMM
  • This autograph was written on 7 April 1901.  A Dora Selina KRAMM was the 2nd child of Anna Auguste HERBIG & Johann August Wilhelm KRAMM.
  • Anna's parents were Anna Caroline RATTEY & J Friedrich HERBIG married in Prussia.  J August Wilhelm KRAMM was the son of Christian Emile GERLACH & Heinrich Friedrich KRAMM.  This Dora Selina married Herman Gustav LIEBELT in 1926.
  • This Dora Selina KRAMM was only born on 7 April 1901.
  • The author believes this autograph was written for Dora's  birth by another person, perhaps her mother. We will continue to look for other women called Dora KRAMM  incase this is not correct.
  • Dora Selina is a 1st cousin to Elsie KRAMM.
• 5B Edgar LIEBELT 
  • This autograph was written in German on an unnamed date and it was preceded and followed by other autographs written in German.   A Carl Edgar LIEBELT  was the 4th child of Johanna Caroline LUBASCH  & Johann Gottlieb LIEBELT, he is a 1st cousin to the above Ottilie Meta LIEBELT. 
  • Anna's parents were Anna Caroline RATTEY & J Friedrich HERBIG married in Prussia.  J August Wilhelm KRAMM was the son of Christian Emile GERLACH & Heinrich Friedrich KRAMM.  This Dora Selina married Herman Gustav LIEBELT in 1926.
  • This Carl Edgar LIEBELT was only born on 22 May 1899, Friedrichstadt. 
  • The author believes this autograph was written for Carl Edgar's birth by another person, perhaps his mother. 
  • Carl Edgar LIEBELT is a 1st cousin to Elsie KRAMM.
• 6A Heinrich KRAMM
  • ​This autograph was written on an unnamed date. Heinrich Albert LIEBELT was born at Friedrichstadt 14 February 1889, he was the 7th child of Johanne Wilhelmine KLAEBSCH & Johann Friedrich Wilhelm LIEBELT [who was a son of Johanna Caroline LUBASCH  & Johann Gottlieb LIEBELT].
  • Heinrich Albert LIEBELT is a 1st cousin to Elsie KRAMM.
• 6B Ethel WILSON 
  • ​The author has no record of an Ethel WILSON.
• 7A M. MUELLER
  • This autograph was written on 18 April 1914.  There is not enough information to identify which MUELLER this would be.  The family of Johann Carl Ferdinand MUELLER & Johanne Eleanora PAECH are not related to Elsie KRAMM. However the wife Edward Otto MUELLER, Pauline Hulda KUCHEL is a 1st cousin to Elsie KRAMM.
• 7B Florrie BRAENDLER
  • ​This autograph was written on 2 February 1913. A Florentina Gertrude LIEBELT was known as 'Florrie' and in 1909 she married Gottlieb Christoph BRAENDLER.  In 1913 Florrie would have been 24 years of age. 
  • Florrie's parents were Ottilie Clara ALTMANN & Johann August LIEBELT whose parents were Johanna Caroline LUBASCH & Johann Gottlieb LIEBELT of Friedrichstadt. Ottilie Clara ALTMANN's parents were Johanne Louise LIEBELT & J Karl Joseph ALTMANN.
  • Florentina Gertrude LIEBELT is a 1st cousin to Elsie KRAMM.
• 8A Louise LIEBELT
  • ​
• 8B Rita STORCH
  • This autograph was written on 6 April 1914.  Rita Marie STORCH  was the 6th child of Helena Auguste PAECH & Wilhelm Albert STORCH [m St Michael's Church Hahndorf 1886].  
  • Helena's parents were J Luise PÄCH & J Friedrich PAECH & J married in 1851, Lobethal.  Luise is the 2nd child of Dorothea Elisabeth BARTEL & J Gottlieb PAECH & Wilhelm Albert STORCH the son of Johanne Julianne LAUBE & Carl August Heinrich STORCH.  This Rita Marie STORCH  married Ronald McDONALD,  in 1926.
  • This Rita Marie STORCH was born on 7 April 1901 which means she was 13 years of age if and when she wrote her autograph page.

Table of Contents

These 68 Autographed pages were scanned in 2023 from the original, which is from the Kathryn SCHMEISS Collection.   Kathryn is the author's 4th cousin and grew up off the Echunga Road on Schmeiss Road.

1.    Authors Note

On the inside page of this Autograph book is says [above] Elsa KRAMM, Hahndorf.  Elsa was born Alfrida Elsa KRAMM on 18 July 1898, Nr Hahndorf, Nairne', [SAGHS Birth Index Database]. Elsa was the 2nd child of Anna Bertha LIEBELT & Carl Reinhold KRAMM.  

However the very next page is dated 1891 [left]  several pages later one is dated 1866 [right] which indicates this book was begun over 30 years before Elsa was born.  

Else is the grandmother of Kathryn SCHMEISS who has preserved this 160 year old autograph book which includes some scripts written in German. 

Elsa's mother was the youngest of 11 children born to Johanna Caroline LUBASCH & the 1st child of the '2nd LIEBELT son' [Johann Gottlieb LIEBELT] married to Maria Elisabeth KUCHEL.  They were both on the 'Zebra' which arrived in South Australia in 1839.

1	2a Meta LIEBELT 1897	2b German script 1864
	1891	1864
3a Dora KRAMM 1901	3b German script 1901	4a German script 1866
1901	1901	1866
4b German script 1867	5a German script 1903	5b Edgar LIEBELT German script
6a Heinrich KRAMM	6b Ethel Wilson 1913	7a M. MUELLER 1914
7b Florrie BRAENDLER 1913	8a Louise LIEBELT 1914	8b Rita M. STORCH 1914
9a 1913	9b Ottilie A. BRAUER 1913	10a Ottilie BRAUER 1913
10b Ebba D. BRAUER 1913	11a Alma SCHÄPEL 1913	11b Johanna Luise KUCHEL 1913
12a Alma SCHÄPEL 1913	12b 1913	13a
13b 1913	14a H. MUELLER 1914	14b 1912

15a F.W. LIEBELT 1914	15b  H. WUTTKE 1914	16a  Meta MARTIN 1912
16 b 1912	17a Selma LIEBELT 1912	17b  C.A. LIEBELT 1912
18a Hulda & Vera LIEBELT 1914	18b Elsie HIMMLER 1913	19a B.W.P. RODERT 1914
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19b	20a August LIEBELT 1913	20b Ruby LÜTZOW
21a 1914	21b 1913	22a Alfred LIEBELT
22b 1913	23a	23b 1913
24a 1912	24b 1912	25a
25b	26a	26b
27a 1912	27b 1912	28a 1914
28b	29a	29b
30a 1913	30b 1913	31a 1914
31b 1913	32a 1914	32b 1912
34a	34b