Wichard Gustav Gottfried Schwarzlose (1927 – 1965)

 

• 1927 - 12th September: Wichard Gustav Gottfried Schwarzlose was born in Breslau, Germany
• 1928 - 16th September: Roma Patricia Gray was born in Sydney, Australia
• 1939 – 1945: World War 2
• 1927 - 12th September: Wichard completed a carpentry trade test certificate in carpentry and joinery in Hannover, Germany
• 1952 - 4th January – 10th February: Wichard travelled on the MS Nelly from Bremerhaven to Melbourne via Cape Town along with 52 other 'Jennings Germans'
• 1951 – 1952: Roma was the Canberra YWCA’s Physical Activities & Social Activities Secretary
• 1952-1954: Wichard and Roma met through their involvement in the YMCA & YWCA organisations
• 1954 - 18th December: Wichard married Roma in Bright, Victoria
• 1955: Roma travelled to Brewarrina to live with Wichard who was building in the bush, they lived in tents/shearers’ huts
• 1956 - 7th February: Jennifer Elizabeth Schwarzlose was born in Brewarrina
• 1957 - 27th November: Wichard renounced his German citizenship at a Naturalisation Ceremony at the Brewarrina Council Chambers (according to a newspaper article published in The Western Herald on 6th December 1957)
• 1958 - 4th September: Rodney Peter Schwarzlose was born in Brewarrina
• 1960: Wichard, Roma, Jennifer & Rodney moved from Brewarrina to Canberra
• 1962 - 15th April: Vaughn John Schwarzlose was born in Canberra
• 1965 - 25th October: Wichard passed away
• 2005: Vaughn’s daughter (Wichard’s granddaughter) Emily started researching her paternal family history
• 2009: Emily went on a Rotary Exchange to Germany and met Wichard’s siblings (Rosel & Jobst), nieces & nephews