- "Charles Dickens" departed 5 April 1877 from Hamburg arriving at Moreton Bay on 17 July 1877
HOFFMANN August, Gelsenkirchen, Westphalen, Arbeiter, 23
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 18 July 1877, page 2
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The Charles Dickens, ship, from Hamburg, with immigrants, arrived at the anchorage, Brisbane Roads, yesterday afternoon. From our local columns it will be seen that the vessel has been refused pratique.
and on the same day ........
THE ship Charles Dickens, which arrived in Moreton Bay on Saturday, with 508 immigrants, from Hamburg, was visited by the health officer at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the surgeon-superintendent, Dr. Uterhardt, reported that during the voyage, which lasted 100 days, there had been much sickness, more particularly amongst the children, there having been no less than sixty cases of measles, two of which proved fatal - one death from this cause occurring on the 6th and the other on the 7th of the current month, about a week before the end of the voyage. There were altogether eighteen deaths and five births. The deaths were all of children, except two, viz., Anna Maria Brener, a married woman, aged twenty-eight years, who died of acute odema cerebri; and Therese Frieberg, a single girl, aged twenty-two, who died of peritonitis. The other deaths were of children from four years downwards, the greater number being infants - two died from diptheria, three from bronchitis, two from pneumonia, two from phthisis, two from convulsions, one from cramps, one from Bright's disease, and one from apoplexy. It is not stated whether measles still prevails on board, but we may assume that it does, the two deaths from this cause having occurred within a few days of the ship's arrival in port. Neither is any reason given for the occurrence of so much sickness; but the number of children on board at the date of sailing was 172, which may be considered far too large a number of children for one vessel. The health officer ordered Captain Bochwoldt to hoist the yellow flag, and has recommended that the ship and passengers be placed in quarantine. It is expected that a Gazette Extraordinary will issue to-day ordering the ship into quarantine, and she will probably be towed over to Peel Island to-day or to-morrow. The immigrants are mostly German, but we notice in the list a goodly sprinkling of Polish names.
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- The Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 - 1956), Thursday 17 August 1933, page 25
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MR. A. HOFFMANN.
Mr. August Hoffman, another of Queensland's old mining warriors, passed away at the age of 80. A native of Germany - he was born in Silesia, Hamburg - he came to Australia in 1877, in the sailing ship Charles Dickens, landing in Ipswich. He secured work in a coal mine there for about a year and then went to Gympie as a gold miner and worked in many of the claims, both as a miner and manager.
After 20 years in Gympie he removed to Crow's Nest gold mine as foreman, but soon came to Mt. Usher, and was employer, by the Mt. Usher Company for five years as foreman. He then took over the management of the Mt. Gothard mine, near Mt. Usher, and later became foreman at Chillagoe and worked at the Red Cape mine, and Mt. Chalmers before taking up his residence in Mt. Morgan in 1914. He was in the service of the Mt. Morgan Gold-mining Co. until 1921, when the mine closed down.
Of a kindly and gentlemanly disposition he was well liked and respected. His illness was only of a short duration.
His funeral, which took place from his late residence, was well attended. Rev. C. W. Chandler, of St. Mary's Church of England, officiated at the graveside. He is survived by a widow and a large grown-up family.
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