Mathes Handreck

Mathes Handreck resided in Byaduk, Victoria, Australia.(323) Occupation: Farmer. Mathes immigrated to Australia arriving on September 24, 1858. The family moved from South Australia to Victoria in 1860. Matthes was naturalised in 1879 at Bynbyne. The Handreck family departed from Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1858 upon the barque Victoria and arrived in Adelaide on September 24, 1858. Accompanying Matthes and Anna were their three children, Christian, 8, Marianne, 4, and Matthes, 2. In 1860 the family moved to Victoria and settled in the Byaduk district of Western Victoria. Byaduk is located fifteen miles south of Hamilton and was established in 1853 as an exclusively Wend community where wendish continued to be spoken until the turn of the century. Neukirch or Byaduk as it is now known, is located 25 km south of Hamilton and was established in 1853 by Peter Burger, Johann Hundrack, Johann Rentsch and the Jeitz, Edlich and Pertzel families. It was an exclusively Wendish community where the Sorbian language was spoken until around 1915. The original Handreck property of around 160 acres, located at Byaduk on Old Crusher Road, was owned by Andrew North during the 1980s. The property?s original homestead was built from old stone on the lava flow and has now been reduced to ruins. The property abutted the original Rentsch and Gude properties.