As history is important although we may not think so at the moment later on it will be. I have added history on the back of the folders that I present the photographs in because it explains why and a little bit about the group that is in the photograph.
BEECK FAMILY HISTORY:
BRIEF HISTORY OF
BEECK FAMILY
The family of August and Christiana Beeck left Europe, namely the German/Polish town of Posan, in 1847 to accompany their Lutheran pastor and his whole congregation to move to South Australia to escape religious persecution.
The Prussian Government of the day had introduced compulsory allegiance to the State Church. The faithful Lutheran congregation believed in freedom of worship and to follow this ideal, they fled their country of birth for a new beginning in the young colony of Australia.
They settled in South Australia around Lobethal with their family of 5 boys, having brought 2 of them out on the ship “The Gellert”.
After marrying Maria Hermine Borman, Emil Robert Beeck tried different types of employment, from working in the lime works as a young man, to farming the land. He moved often and some of his growing family of twelve took up farming in the district.
Following drought and economic hardship, a number of farmers came across to Western Australia to see if the land was any more reliable for farming. They travelled up into the Great Southern area and found the town of Katanning with its own flour mill. The land appeared to be fertile so Emil sent back to SA for his family to sell up their farms and move west. In February 1892 Emil’s wife Hermine and 11 of their 12 children and their families sailed into the port of Albany on the ‘South Australia.’ A special train was needed to bring all the family, their belongings, food, machinery and live stock to settle in the Katanning district.
Capemont, Summerfield, Orange Grove, Garden Valley, and Raspberry Hill were some or the original farms to be established.
The family have spread throughout the district; some are still farming, while others have spread throughout the land and around the world.
Since settling in Katanning three amazing family reunions have been held. The first in 1952; the second in 1992 and the most recent in 2012 - which celebrated 120 years since the Beeck’s arrived in the heart of the Great Southern. The next milestone is likely to be the 150th Anniversary in 30 years time – a brand new committee will definitely be needed to plan for that memorable occasion!
‘They loved God, their family and the land’
The family of August and Christiana Beeck left Europe, namely the German/Polish town of Posan, in 1847 to accompany their Lutheran pastor and his whole congregation to move to South Australia to escape religious persecution.
The Prussian Government of the day had introduced compulsory allegiance to the State Church. The faithful Lutheran congregation believed in freedom of worship and to follow this ideal, they fled their country of birth for a new beginning in the young colony of Australia.
They settled in South Australia around Lobethal with their family of 5 boys, having brought 2 of them out on the ship “The Gellert”.
After marrying Maria Hermine Borman, Emil Robert Beeck tried different types of employment, from working in the lime works as a young man, to farming the land. He moved often and some of his growing family of twelve took up farming in the district.
Following drought and economic hardship, a number of farmers came across to Western Australia to see if the land was any more reliable for farming. They travelled up into the Great Southern area and found the town of Katanning with its own flour mill. The land appeared to be fertile so Emil sent back to SA for his family to sell up their farms and move west. In February 1892 Emil’s wife Hermine and 11 of their 12 children and their families sailed into the port of Albany on the ‘South Australia.’ A special train was needed to bring all the family, their belongings, food, machinery and live stock to settle in the Katanning district.
Capemont, Summerfield, Orange Grove, Garden Valley, and Raspberry Hill were some or the original farms to be established.
The family have spread throughout the district; some are still farming, while others have spread throughout the land and around the world.
Since settling in Katanning three amazing family reunions have been held. The first in 1952; the second in 1992 and the most recent in 2012 - which celebrated 120 years since the Beeck’s arrived in the heart of the Great Southern. The next milestone is likely to be the 150th Anniversary in 30 years time – a brand new committee will definitely be needed to plan for that memorable occasion!
‘They loved God, their family and the land’
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