 Edinburgh 1868 aka Gutenberg Over recent weeks I have accessed much available information about Gutenberg passengers and their descendants. But I know there is a heap more out there that it would be good to include in the publication being prepared for the March 2026 Wellington Reunion of Descendants. 165 people - adults and children - travelled aboard the Gutenberg when it sailed from Bremehaven, Germany to Whanganui-a-tara (Wellington) 1875-76. I have information about over half of these people derived from genealogical websites, Papers Past, books, plus other internet and descendant-provided material. Information I have relates to the following immigrants:
Alve – Carl, Theresia and Anna Malgraff – Johann, Johanna, Clara, Auguste and Paulina Weiss Turchi – Carlo Giovanni, Santina Margarita and seven children Federli – Giovanni Battista Corrado – Pietro Schormann – Heinrich, Dorothea, Friedrich and Marie Briesemann – Heinrich (Cabin Passenger) Maul – Carl, Wilhelmine, Frederick and Wilhelmine(Jnr.) Bredow – Rudolph, Marie, Reinhold and Anna Kohler – Ewald, Auguste, Waldmar and Hedwig Nielsen – Ane Margaret, Marie and Niels Stenberg – Amalie, Mathildr, Axel and Johna E Ficinus – Carl, Bertha and Alexander Meyer – Johanne D. Mudrack – Robert, Auguste and Martha Paaske – Jorgen Schirnack – Carl, Wilhelmine, Franzisea and Emil Manz – Friedrich, Pauline, Bertha, Otto, Auguste, Emma and Minna Frandi – Aristodome, Anunciate, Franzisea, Italia and Aslo Ermer – Franz and Pauline Berthold – Wilhelm, Wilhelmina and Emil Antico – Carlo and Nicolina Bianchini – Antonio, Louisa and Odovardo Wallat – Fredrich, Caroline and Otto Lenz – Wilhelm and Alma Frei – Carl and Melchior (Brothers) Haber – Gottleib, Elise and Rosinia (Unmarried) If you have further info about any of these people, or their descendants through to 1926 you might consider copying me in. Then there are the other half of the immigrants, particularly the single men and women, about whom I have no information except their names on the passenger list which is accessible here: https://www.alve.nz/emigration-1875-1876.html If you can help with the provision of further info please contact me on 027 600 1926 or [email protected] or Messenger me. Or, make a post on this blog page. Many thanks - Terry Alve
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It's only Six months until we Celebrate the Gutenberg's ArrivalA newsletter update was published last week with new information about this sesqui-centenniual event on Sunday 22 March 2026. Click on the button below for new information.
Carlo and his wife Santina, who travelled from Italy, were the largest family (7 children) who travelled aboard the immigrant ship Gutenberg which berthed in Wellington in March 1876. They initially settled at Jacksons Bay in South Westland before the community (up to 400 people) proved too inhospitable for the settlers to remain. In the late 1870s they moved to farm in Taranaki. Along the way they increased their family to eleven children. One of their sons was killed in the Somme during the first world war.
This is part of the story we have about the Turchis. We continue to gather such stories which will be published after the Reunion event. Dietmar's profile is another in this series that investigates who our German cousin's are. He appears, as do Peter Nocken and Jürgen Schmidt, in MyHeritage's Cousin Finder. When I trace his ancestry we see that Carl Alve's (Junior) grandfather - Wilhelm Alfer - was brother of Anna Alfer (Dietmar's 3xgreat grandmother). When we trace downline we see Brochagens and Forsters before Dietmar and his father Oswald were surnamed Höller. 
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