Olive Pearl Warneke (nee Smith)
Olive Pearl Smith was born to parents Joseph and Elizabeth Margaret (nee Stocker) Smith at Queenstown, Adelaide, South Australia, on 9 Oct 1886. As a child she and her family…
Warneke Ken (1922-2003)
Kenneth Arthur Warneke, the sixth child and fourth son to John and Pearl Warneke was born in Moorlands, South Australia, on 12 Feb 1922. After leaving the bush farm at…
The Warneke Family
A family legend in our family says that my Grandfather John Warneke from Hamburg, was a ship’s engineer and jumped ship at Port Adelaide way back around the turn of…
Did John H.D. Warneke arrive on the Sophie Charlotte Herzigon?
View his pedigree chart For many years it has been thought that John Helmuth David Warneke arrived in South Australia around 1900 from Hamburg, Germany. Now new information and the…
John H.D. Warneke, a potted history
JOHN HELMUTH DAVID WARNEKE (1881-1954) OLIVE PEARL SMITH (1886-1930) Great grandparents of Clancy James Paternal grandparents of Christine James John Helmuth David Warneke was born on September 9th, 1881, in…
The Move to Moorlands
Note: These photos are not of the Warneke family, but are of Moorlands at the time and have been included to show how harsh life was for the settlers. Possibly…
WARNEKE Robert James (1915 – 1984)
Born in August 1915, Robert (known as Bob) was born in Pt Adelaide shortly before the family picked up and moved to Moorlands, a small farming community in the Murray…
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