Ernstine⁴ Schneider (Johann Casper⁵, Jeremiah⁶)⁽²⁷³⁾ was born in Penshurst, Victoria, Australia on September 8, 1863.⁽²⁷⁴⁾ Ernstine died on January 1, 1942 in Temora, New South Wales, Australia at 78 years of age.

Ernstine was confirmed at 14 years of age in Murtoa, Victoria, Australia on November 11, 1877. Ernestine's birth was registered at Gnadenthal. She received her schooling at Spring Creek and was confired in the Lutheran Church, Murtoa, Victoria by Pastor G. Hiller on November 11, 1877. In 1879 Ernestine, her mother, two brothers and three sisters shifted to Ni Ni, approximately twenty miles from Dimboola.

She married Karl Eduard Fritsch (Ned) at the Lutheran Church in Ni Ni, Victoria, Australia in 1881.⁽²⁷⁵⁾ Ned was born on November 16, 1854 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. He⁽²⁷⁶⁾ was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Fritsch and Johanna Dorothea Uebergang. Ned died on July 5, 1934 in Temora, New South Wales, Australia at 79 years of age. He was baptised in Hochkirch, Victoria, Australia on November 27, 1854.⁽²⁷⁷⁾ Occupation: Farmer. (See Karl Eduard Fritsch for the children resulting from this marriage.)

 

 

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