The terms were – forty guineas per annum, which included English, History, Geography, Writing and Arithmetic. The sisters established a school for young ladies at Gough House in Parramatta which was opened on. They soon joined forces with Laura’s sister Susan, wife of William Griffith, a London-born artist. In Australia he was unable to find employment and eventually the Lubecki’s opened a school on 1 October 1840. Noted as the first known Polish settler in New South Wales, they soon had a son-Jean Konstatin (b. John Duffus, who also came to Australia on the same voyage, Alois and Laura set aboard the Eden arriving at Sydney on 17 October 1838. 1901), the daughter of Thomas Duffus and Susannah Gordon Berryman. Alois took part in the Polish-Russian war of 1830-31 as an officer in the Polish National Army and after the end of the fighting he emigrated, first to Dresden in German Saxony, where he fell gravely ill, and then to France and England.Īlois married in 1836 in London to Laura Duffus (b. He was a cousin of Prince Xavier Drucki-Lubecki, an outstanding minister of finance in the Polish Government in the years 1821-30. His grandfather Jan married a Polish noblewoman, nee Jodko, and held large estates at Volhynia, then a province in Eastern Poland. His forefathers became Lithuanian Princes and became completely Polonized after the union of Poland and Lithuania. 1864) was born at Warszawa, a descendant of the famous Norman Prince Ruric who was invited to govern Russia. Polish Land Ownership in Otago & SouthlandĪlois Konstantin Lubecki, Anglican Block 31 Plot 9, Southern Cemetery in Dunedin, courtesy of Paul Klemick.NZ Return of Freeholders 1882 for Otago & Southland.NZ Naturalisations in Otago & Southland.Notes on Polish settlers at East Taieri.Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Gore.Hyacinth of Waihola now Mary Queen of Peace at Broadbay Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea at Hampden.NZ Polish Settlers Database Spreadsheet.Polish Women in Otago among the First in the World to Vote.Polish Visitors and Settlers from 1772 to 1872.Poles & descendants from Otago & Southland who served in the Armed Forces.Paul Klemick – Researcher & Genealogist.Kociewie, Kaszuby & Polish Historical & Genealogical Sites.Links to other Groups & Polish Churches.Genealogical & Historical Bibliographies.
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