Some 12,000 Germans in more than 80 ships arrived in South Australia between 1844 and 1850. It was on February 3rd 1858 when Carl Philip Leopoldine and Eduard Leopold Kaesehagen, cousin Leopold Conrad and Aunt Anna Heuzenroeder nee Kaesehagen arrived in South Australia from Duderstadt, a medieval walled town in the centre of modern Germany. Christolph Wilhelm Kaesehagen and Wilhelm Specht followed shortly afterwards.
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