In May 2021, an article I wrote was included in the Lake Macquarie Family History Group’s(LMFHG) publication called The Chronicle. As I was at the time, researching and documenting our great, great Danish grandfather Carl Christian Andreas Haaber Tronier, I chose to include a section of my data on him and his brother Joachim August Tronier in the publication. My topic in the Chronicle referred to the time the Danish brothers arrived separately in Australia. 

In August 1853 Joachim aged twenty one, arrives on the ship Wilhelmsburg from Hamburg to Melbourne.

Carl followed his brother about five years later, arriving in the colony at Melbourne, 25 February, 1858 from Gravesend, England, aboard the ship Sir Charles Napier.

After the Chronicle was published, a member of LMFHG phoned, informing me of our connection to the 1858 voyage. C.S. had a family member who was the surgeon on the ship Sir Charles Napier during its 1858 journey to Australia. She provided us with an image of the vessel and a copy of the passenger list with our two times great grandfather Carl Tronier listed. Her family’s ancestor, John Shiels signed off on the passengers on Sir Charles Napier.

How fortunate to have more information on our ancestor. We knew Carl was a coach builder in 1874 and these documents show that as a wheelwright by occupation Carl Tronier would have had the skills to create a coach-building business. So thrilled to have a connection from way back in 1858. It is definitely is a small world!