A young man from the town of Butzbach in Hesse who emigrated to the Victorian goldfields in 1855. His sister Elisabetha Apollonie remained in Germany and married Conrad Fischer - and it was through her son who emigrated to the US that DNA connections between Australia and the US confirmed the Steinhauser family origins in Germany.
The full story of Johann Jakob Steinhauser - from Butzbach to the Victorian goldfields and the decades he built a life at Clunes.
In preparation The Research ReportThe research report establishing Johann Wilhelm Fischer of Butzbach as William Fischer who married in New York in 1887, and confirming the DNA connection between the Australian and US Steinhauser descendants.
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