Family: Bruno Albert Wiser / Elisa Schoenhals

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Arrival of the Wyser Family in Adelaide, South Australia - 23 Jan 1877

This passenger manifest, from the collection of State Records of South Australia, shows the arrival in Adeliade on 23 Jan 1877 of: Bruno Wyser (age 35), Elisa (age 32), Ida (9), Marie [?] (4), Emilie (3), Adolph (2), and Otto (3/4).

According to the Palmer List of Merchant Vessels: "The British ship EDITH BYRNE (Official No. 16216) was built by the Canada Works, Birkenhead, in 1856 (first registered, Liverpool 9 June 1857). 729.44 tons register; 165.4 x 30.2 x 19.7 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks.

"In March 1865, the EDITH BYRNE was purchased from Byrne, of Liverpool, for £8,250 by the Hamburg shipowner, Robert Miles Sloman, who renamed her HERSCHEL, after an earlier vessel that he had sold in Indonesia in 1859. Measurements (Hamburg): 333 Commerzlasten /787 tons; 50,3 x 9,1 x 5,79 meters (length x beam x depth of hold)."

The master from 1875-1878 was J. J. Kammann. The vessel's voyages in the 1870's:

1871/73 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Amsterdam/Cuxhaven
1873/74 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Cardiff
1874/75 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Greenock
1875/76 - Wellington/Peru
1876/78 - Adelaide/intermediate ports/Huanillos
1878/80 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Corinto, Nicaragua

According to the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, Inc. fact sheet, this voyage of the Herschel originated in Hamburg. Sequence 77/6 -- see http://www.saghs.org.au/ships/shipsH.htm

On On 1 June 1891 the HERSCHEL was sold to Hartvigsen, of Arendal, Norway. There is no record of her final fate.

Please see: http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/com-ed.htm#edithbyrne1856

GRG35/48 – Assisted Passage – Consignment/Sub-series 1, Unit 22; Volume 22 1877 – Adolph Wyser through Elsie Wyser.

FROM THE MANIFEST ITSELF (re-read Oct 2026): Bruno Wyser 35 (married), Elise 32, Ida 9, Marie 4, Emilie 3, Adolph 2 and Otto under 1 (3/4). Summary of the voyage: 218 adults, children 1-12 and 16 infants embarked, 305 souls in all; 4 births and 5 deaths of children on the voyage; 304 landed alive. The immigration agent's certificate is dated 29 Jan 1877.

DATES: embarked Hamburg 26 Sep 1876; anchored Port Adelaide 12 Jan 1877; immigrants landed 23 Jan 1877. The voyage, the passengers' petition against Captain Kammann (Bruno Wyser was the eighth signatory) and the commission of enquiry are told in "Rich Man, Poor Man" (media 1377).

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