Andreas Samulewsky
Contents
Background
Andreas (Andrew) Samulewsky sailed to Australia on the Alfred, leaving Hamburg, and arriving in South Australia on 06 December 1848.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Andreas was residing at Ballarat when he signed the Benden Hassell Petition in 1856. [2]
- [Letter] From Andrew Samulewsky, stating he had been residing nine years on the Free Trade Flat, with a frontage of his house to Caledonia street. He found by a re-survey of the land he was left without a frontage to any street, which he considered a hard case, and requested the council to give it due consideration as he was a poor man and had lived on the flat 11 years.—Referred to the works committee.[3]
Family
Children
1. Alvena Samulewsky (married Charles Beaumont)
2. Albertina Samulewsky (married Andrew Murdoch)
Obituary
- DEATH. SAMULEWSKY.— On the 27th November, at the Ballarat District Hospital, Andrew Samulewsky, aged sixty-six years, late of Queen street, Ballarat.[4]
See also
Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case
Further Reading
Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.
