Scott Davis
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Scott B. Davis
Born 1960s.
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Biography

This profile is part of the Davis Name Study.
Scott Davis is a member of the Earl Grey's Famine Orphan Scheme 1848-1850 Team.

I came to Wikitree as an experienced Wikipedia contributor, with an interest in South Australian geography and history and my ancestors' places in it.

My ancestors migrated from Great Britain and Europe to South Australia between 1838 and 1876. The earliest of those had lived in Van Diemen's Land as a free settler for over five years, since leaving England in 1832.

I have discovered that the "male lines" have generally been easier to research than female ones - it has taken more effort to learn about maternal grandmothers at almost every point on my family tree.

Ancestors

List generated by https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/clarke11007/surnames.php?ph=0 on 1 February 2021.

My Surnames

Legend:
Surname (alternate spellings) : First Person with surname in tree → EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor
( # ) = number of generations from Primary person to EKA
pedigree.gif 𐂷 = pedigree chart of First Person / descendant-link.gif ⇟ = descendant list of EKA
Altus  : Maria, b. 1846, Nechern, Saxony pedigree.gif 𐂷Johann Altus, b. 1820, Rodewitz, Sachsen, Germany descendant-link.gif (4)
Bartisch  : → Anna Bartisch, b. 1810, Kreis Crossen descendant-link.gif (4)
Brand  : → Elizabeth Brand, b. 1774, Montrose, Angus, Scotland descendant-link.gif (5)
Bruce  : Eliza, b. 1843, Islington St Mary, England pedigree.gif 𐂷David Bruce, b. 1773, Montrose, Angus, Scotland descendant-link.gif (5)
Chilcott  : Maria, b. 1829, Holford, Somerset, England pedigree.gif 𐂷John Chilcott, b. 0000, descendant-link.gif (5)
Cox  : Amy, b. 1885, Bowden-on-the-Hill, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Edward Cox, b. 1811, Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, England descendant-link.gif (4)
Davies  : Elizabeth, b. 1878, Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Shadrach Davies, b. 1808, St John; Swansea descendant-link.gif (4)
Davies  : Margaret, b. 1845, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom pedigree.gif 𐂷Thomas Davies, b. 1810, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales descendant-link.gif (4)
Davis  : Barry, b. 1939, Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Thomas Davis, b. 1792, Stogursey, Somerset, England descendant-link.gif (5)
Deer  : Gweneth, b. 1913, Cowell, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Jacob Deer, b. 1747, Pontardawe, Wales descendant-link.gif (6)
Fawcett  : → Harriet Fawcett, b. 1805, descendant-link.gif (5)
Fincham  : Hannah, b. 1808, Coggeshall, Essex, England pedigree.gif 𐂷John Fincham, b. 1775, null descendant-link.gif (5)
Fischer  : Anna Eleonore, b. 1846, Ostritz, Züllichau-Schwiebus, Brandenburg, Prussia pedigree.gif 𐂷Johann Fischer, b. 1814, Züllichau, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany descendant-link.gif (5)
Goble  : → Mary Goble, b. 1810, England descendant-link.gif (5)
Godwin  : Elizabeth, b. 1814, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, England pedigree.gif 𐂷Charles Godwin, b. 1791, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, England descendant-link.gif (5)
Gregurke  : Emma, b. 1881, Eudunda, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Johann Gregurke, b. 1803, Trebschen, Zuellichau Schweibus, Germany descendant-link.gif (4)
Groby  : → Katharina Groby, b. 1800, null descendant-link.gif (5)
Henschke  : Emilie, b. 1837, Chociule,Lubuskie,POL pedigree.gif 𐂷Johann Henschke, b. 1770, Brandenburg, Prussia descendant-link.gif (5)
Hern  : → Hannah Hern, b. 1788, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, England descendant-link.gif (5)
Herrmann  : → Anna Herrmann, b. 1780, null descendant-link.gif (5)
Hirsch  : → Anna Hirsch, b. 1812, Prussia descendant-link.gif (4)
Hunt  : Jane, b. 1843, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England pedigree.gif 𐂷George Hunt, b. 1818, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom descendant-link.gif (4)
James  : → Catherine James, b. 1775, Llanguicke, Glamorgan, Wales descendant-link.gif (5)
Keller  : Johanne, b. 1851, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Karl Keller, b. 1816, Gleinau, Kreis Wohlau, Schlesien, Prüßen descendant-link.gif (4)
Klente  : → Maria Klente, b. 1800, descendant-link.gif (5)
Klingner  : Caroline, b. 1866, Stockwell, South Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Carl Klingner, b. 1826, Semmelwitz, Silesia, Prussia descendant-link.gif (4)
Knuschke  : Anna, b. 1837, Upper Heidau, Silesia, Prussia pedigree.gif 𐂷Johann Knuschke, b. 1805, Heidau, Silesia, Prussia descendant-link.gif (5)
Koithan  : Ernstine, b. 1892, Dutton, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Johann Koithan, b. 1799, Mariendrebber, Germany descendant-link.gif (5)
Krause  : → Johanne Krause, b. 1817, Gleinau, Kreis Wohlau, Schlesien, Prüßen (Silesia, Prussia) descendant-link.gif (4)
Krollig  : Alma, b. 1914, Dutton, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Bartolomaus Krollig, b. 1800, null descendant-link.gif (5)
Kurzen  : → Johanna Kurzen, b. 1801, Trzebiechów, Lubuskie, Poland descendant-link.gif (4)
Lemar  : Harriet, b. 1859, Macclesfield, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷Samuel Lemar, b. 1742, England descendant-link.gif (7)
Monk  : Amy, b. 1821, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England pedigree.gif 𐂷Job Monk, b. 1795, Alvescot, Oxfordshire, England descendant-link.gif (5)
Morgan  : → Catherine Morgan, b. 0000, Wales descendant-link.gif (4)
Nerton  : → Mary Nerton, b. 1806, Dulverton, Somerset, England descendant-link.gif (5)
Petras  : → Johanne Petras, b. 1820, Klemzig, Brandenberg, Germany descendant-link.gif (5)
Schneider  : → Anna Schneider, b. 1822, Nechern, Saxony, Prussia descendant-link.gif (4)
Stacey  : Mary, b. 1794, Stogursey, Somerset, England pedigree.gif 𐂷James Stacey, b. 1767, descendant-link.gif (6)
Steinkow  : → Marianna Steinkow, b. 1816, Gross Dammer, Prosen, Prussia descendant-link.gif (4)
Thomas  : → Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1814, Michaelstone, Glamorgan, Wales descendant-link.gif (4)
Wittwer  : Faye, b. 1945, Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia pedigree.gif 𐂷George Wittwer, b. 1780, Tschausdorf, Kreis, Crossen, Brandenburg, Prussia descendant-link.gif (5)
Wolschapp  : → Dorothea Wolschapp, b. 1806, Germany descendant-link.gif (5)
Wood  : Sarah, b. 1837, O'Brien's Bridge, Van Diemen's Land pedigree.gif 𐂷Joshua Wood, b. 1793, North Hall Bridge, Leeds, Yorkshire, England descendant-link.gif (5)

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Hi Scott,

Thank you so much for joining the Southern Cross Stars for the Connect-a-Thon this weekend. There is information on the Southern Cross Stars page, and our chat post at https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1682615 . We'll be chatting during the Thon on the new Aussie Challenge Teams channel. You can message me any time if you have any other questions. I'm always happy to help! Gillian, Southern Cross Stars Team Leader

posted by Gillian Thomas
Hi Scott,

We're contacting you for the annual Australia Project membership checkin. We really appreciate your involvement in the Project in the last year. Thank you so much for all your help to improve Australian profiles on WikiTree.

Please could you reply to this message, or send me a private message to let us know if you'd like to stay on in the Project, and if you'd like to make any changes to the teams that you belong to. The teams are listed on Australia Project Teams.

If you've moved on to other things for the moment, that's absolutely fine. We'd appreciate if you'd let us know so that we can remove you from the membership list.

We're always happy to receive any ideas or suggestions that you have to make our project even better.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

The Australia Project Leadership Team ~ Gillian, Margaret and Veronica

Hi Margaret. I'm definitely still involved in the Australia Project - SA team, current focus is a bit diffuse:
  • My own (and wife's) ancestors and their families and friends
  • Colonial people who lived in areas I'm interested in
  • Making connections between existing profiles and connecting unconnected branches
  • Adding missing cemetery categories and populating them from the Wikitree+ FaG cemetery reports
  • Adding sources and details to profiles I trip over

Scott

posted by Scott Davis
Hi Scott, Thank you for responding to the check-in message, and for your ongoing contributions to WikiTree and the Australia Project, they are much appreciated! Most especially your great work with the cemeteries categories is much appreciated.

Regards, Margaret

Hi Scott. I see you edited in data for my mother Lorna Vial Bennett (nee Leesue). Are you a relative?
posted by John Bennett
Hi John. Sorry I didn't notice your message more promptly.

I think I was reacting to the { {unsourced} } template, but Lorna is 7 degrees from me, so counts in my CC7. It turns out your father was my wife Leanne's grandfather's first cousin!

Scott

posted by Scott Davis
edited by Scott Davis
Hi Scott. Are you in Adelaide? I suspect your wife may be connected to the Bennetts at Bennetts Magill Potteries. It is run by another John Bennett, we have a common great great grandfather.

John

posted by John Bennett
Yes, live and worked in the northern suburbs. I'm not aware of Bennett's Potteries.

Leanne's grandfather was Laurie Harkness (1909-1982), so the connection is through your grandmother.

posted by Scott Davis
Hi Scott!

You’re a member of Southern Cross Stars for the 2023 WikiTree Source-a-Thon. Thanks for choosing us! Your Bib is 642 if you want to download your Bib and create a sticker. We kick off this evening. The times for starting and finishing for various locations in Australia is at Southern Cross Stars Chat.

There is Source-a-Thon ‘how to’ information and some lists of unsourced profiles to work on at Southern Cross Stars, but you can work on any unsourced profiles that you want. You’ll find resources relevant to Australia under Australia Project Resources. We'd love to see you on the team Discord channel. If you haven't yet joined Discord, see Help:Discord.

I’m always happy to receive a direct message if you have any other questions, or need help with anything. Have a great fun weekend :-) Gillian, your Team Captain!

posted by Gillian Thomas
Scott,

Thanks very much for adding information to the profile of Ernst MacKenzie. I created these profiles with minimum information - my goal was to search for related families. The extra information is a big improvement.

posted by Steve Thomas
No worries. I am intrigued about a German bloke with the surname Mackenzie. I didn't find enough to learn how he came to have an Irish-sounding surname.

I had ancestors on the same voyage, and he remains by far the most-remotely related passenger to me at 20 degrees (next most distant are five at 15 degrees)

posted by Scott Davis
Dear Germany Project member,

it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.

If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.

In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.

Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.

Kind regards from Black Forest

Flo (Project Coordinator Research/Resources)
posted by Florian Straub
Hi Florian.

I'd like to remain a member please. I have quite a few ancestors (my mother's ancestors) who migrated from Prussia and/or Germany to South Australia about 170 years ago (mostly but not all from places presently in southwestern Poland). I have a latent interest in where they came from and why they left their home and came to Australia. I also have a more general interest in their cohort's contribution to South Australia's history.

I don't speak or read German.

I've completed the survey.

Thanks, Scott

posted by Scott Davis
Hi Scott,

Thank you for contributing to the family tree of Neta Heinrich (Bussenschutt-9). Neta was one of my favourite family members. While I was at boarding school in Adelaide she lived near her sister-in-law, my grandmother, born Dorothy Heinrich(-519).

Cheers, Steve.

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
Hi Steve. I have discovered I enjoy finding and making the missing connections, and at the moment, I seem to be focusing on the "old" family names of the Adelaide Plains. One branch of Bussenschutts seem to have come from the Salisbury-Penfield-Virginia area`- Neta's father was born at "Para Plains" - are you close enough to know where that means in modern places?

The Gregory Families seem to be mostly from a little further north - Hamley Bridge, Alma, Owen etc. although Neta's mother was born at Modbury and died at Paskeville. I expect to find more connections to my wife eventually as she has ancestors from both Golden Grove/Upper Dry Creek and Kulpara-Greens Plains. I am ten degrees from Neta with only my own and one other marriage (Gregory-Roberts) in the chain.

posted by Scott Davis
Oh - and please request to take over the profiles of any of the people who are closer related to you than me.
posted by Scott Davis
Hi Scott,

It's time for the annual Australia Project membership checkin. Thank you so much for contributing to the project and Australian profiles on WikiTree during the last year. We really appreciate you!

If you would like to stay in the project, please reply to this message or send me a private message to let us know that you would like to stay on. Alternatively, if your WikiTree and research interests have moved away from Australia, please let us know and we can remove you from the membership list for the moment. You will, of course, be very welcome to rejoin the project down the track whenever you want to.

We are also keen to know if you want to make any changes to the team or teams that you want to focus on. Take a look on Australia Project Teams to see what teams there are to choose from. If you want to discuss this, or have any questions or suggestions about the Australia Project we'd love to hear your ideas.

Thanks for taking the time to get back to us!

Gillian, co-Leader, Australia Project

posted by Gillian Thomas
Hi Gillian.

Yes, I wish to continue in the Australia Project. I don't seem to be listed on the South Australia team, so I better contact Karyn to join that. I have 16 ancestors in the South Australia Pioneers category!

As far as other teams, I enjoyed the Connector's Challenge but not so much the Sourcerer's Challenge. I tend to add to and improve any profile I happen to read, and create the categories for locations or cemeteries as required. For example I recently saw a memorial for a young man who died in Malta from wounds incurred at Gallipoli. I created his profile and three or four others to connect him to the tree, plus the category for the locality he had come from and improved several other profiles near where his family connected.

My interest is predominantly pre-federation South Australia including my own and my wife's ancestors, their relatives, neighbours and likely friends.

Scott

posted by Scott Davis
Hi Scott, that all sounds marvellous. Thank you for all the great work that you do! I've added you to the South Australia team, but you might want to touch base with Karyn as well.
posted by Gillian Thomas
Hi Scott,

As shown by the red type, the Category:Gross Dammer, Posen has been completely renamed. I have moved some profiles to the new 'Groß Dammer, Meseritz, Posen, Preußen'.

This doesn't deal with all the problems you raised. 'Category: Posen, Preußen' and 'Category: Posen, Prussia' need some clean-up. I'll raise a new G2G sometime in the future.

Regards, Steve.

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
Hi Scott,

Rather than confuse the whole discussion, I want to clear up a small point.

I will support the location category structure under Category: Preußen. In the formal structure the appropriate spelling includes "ß" and umlaut. Category:Meseritz_(Kreis),_Posen fits comfortably inside this structure, Category:Posen,_Prussia does not fit as well. One part of the cleanup is to remove Posen, Prussia as a parent for Category:Gross_Dammer,_Posen. Is that OK?

Regards, Steve

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
I think that sounds like a good plan. I would aim that we shouldn't have parallel structures. Wikimedia Commons is a multilingual example with one category structure and uses templates to display the right language(s) for the reader (if it has been written).
posted by Scott Davis
I agree with one category structure. I have started the cleanup.

1) I have started the process to rename the category 'Gross Dammer, Posen' to the full German title 'Groß Dammer, Meseritz, Posen, Preußen'. This might take a few days. 2) I am the manager of 4 of the profiles in Meseritz(Kreis). When the renaming is complete I will move those profiles to Groß Dammer. 3) Then I will look at how to compact the parallel Posen categories.

I am quite amused. Groß Dammer was 8 km North-West(ish) of the town that used to be Bentschen. The train line between Warsaw and Berlin passes between these 2 towns. I took this train in 2018. Without knowing it, I had passed within 3 km of Groß Dammer.

posted by Steve Thomas
Thanks Steve. Should the category name be full four levels of name, or just "Groß Dammer, Meseritz" or "Groß Dammer, Posen" if that is unique? We don't use 3-4 level category names here (but we do for birth/marriage/death places in the data fields).

More than half my immigrant ancestors came from this area (Posen, Eastern Brandenburg, Silesia), and I have not been close to it (yet). I visited England and Scotland almost 20 years ago, and it looks like I went close to where a couple of my British ancestors might have been, but that was well before I knew that, and we didn't go near the previous home of the few I knew about then.

posted by Scott Davis
The normal standard could be either "Groß Dammer, Meseritz" or "Groß Dammer, Posen". There aren't any other Groß Dammer, so I would prefer "Groß Dammer, Posen",

This was an exceptional case. I have only added the 4 levels for reference of anyone looking at this example. It serves as a model for the location fields.

[More explanation added 14 hours later. This 4 level category name sets the gold standard for the location field. The silver standards are the minor variations in German and English. "Gross Dammer, Meseritz, Preussen", "Gross Dammer, Meseritz, Prussia". I do not worry about most variations in the location field unless they are clearly wrong. "Gross Dammer near Bentschen" is correct and may be helpful to that Profile Manager. In South Australia I will defend the location "White Hut near Clare" in https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lindner-709.]

When the dust settles this entire discussion stream can be archived and de-clutter your profile.

P.S. did anyone mention that I am the Team Leader for Prussia in the Wikitree Germany Project?

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
I don't know if you have seen the attached list. A German historian, Wilhelm Iwan, compiled a list of Old Lutherans that left Prussia. I have extracted information for the ones that went to Australia. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Name_list_of_%27Old_Lutheran%27_Emigrants_to_Australia
posted by Steve Thomas
Thanks Steve. It looks like you have done some good work there. I think I spotted a couple of "my" profiles in the list. Possibly others would be in the groups that aren't named as someone wasn't sure if they were committed Old Lutherans.
posted by Scott Davis
Hi Scott,

It is going to take me some time to answer your question about parallel categories. Gross Dammer was about 8 km West of Bentschen in the Prussian province of Posen. Around 1900 this region was predominantly German speaking. Wikipedia contains interesting history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zb%C4%85szy%C5%84

Cheers, Steve.

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
Thanks for adding children to the Gregurke family on the H.R.Patel. I normally check the different sources for discrepancies. I'm not sure how I missed the extra children.

One of my aunts was born Faye Schunke, a descendant of Georg Schunke on the same ship.

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
I reckon there was a Schunke in one of my classes at uni.

August Gregurke was my 2x great grandfather. I’m trying to fill in more of the families of my immigrant ancestors for the connect-a-thon. It’s slow going as I’m trying to do full biographies if I can, not just a name and couple of dates.

posted by Scott Davis

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