Delving into our Danish DNA

The Maitland Mercury on 1 June 1880 reported on a buggy accident where Mr Carl Tronier was driving with his little daughter Ethel when the buggy they were in, collided against a stump of a felled tree. The buggy was destroyed but the occupants escaped injury.   He also tried to maintain his coach building business in Glen Innes but, was forced to move to new premises next to the Police Station. Things did not improve and by September 1888…

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In the 1869s and 70s Tronier family members are found on shipping records on the steamer from MacLeay River and Port Macquarie to Sydney, doing several trips. Was it Carl Tronier checking out the northern part of the state, looking for riches or was it August’s growing family who were looking for new opportunities? In 1878, Joachim August set himself up as a professional photographer in George St, Sydney. Some of his work is still available today both in the…

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In the spring of 1855, two years after arriving in the colony, Joachim married Frances Emily Caulfield originally from Westminster in England. This event is reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on 24 September 1855, taking place at Woolloomooloo Sydney, New South Wales, under special licence. 5 With a growing family, Joachim August Tronier started looking for investment opportunities in New South Wales. In December 1855, he applied for a Publicans Licence for The Travellers Home Hotel Ulladulla, where Joachim, his wife Frances…

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It was a fine sunny morning when the ship Sir Charles Napier arrived in Port Phillip Bay. On board the vessel were 93 passengers in second class and one passenger in steerage. Our two times Danish great grandfather Carl Christian Andreas Haaber Tronier, was a 21-year-old passenger on board the ship. Carl had left London in late November 1857, probably with the weather cooling down to arrive in Australia on a warm sunny day, so he must have felt very excited to…

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My grandmother Gwendoline was very proud of her Danish grandfather, Carl Christian Andreas Tronier and her Danish family history. Often the word “royal’ was dropped into conversations. A few years ago, my Uncle Robert, her son, gave me a copy of a large record of the family tree. This was created by lawyers tracing descendants of this Danish family right back many centuries and down to my Grandmother’s generation. I look forward to sharing about our Tronier and Haaber families…

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