Margaretha Heinz
The Lorelei
Immigrant.........Mother.........Prominent Citizen
Margaretha was born in 1850 in Mainz, Budenheim, Germany, she arrived in Australia in 1855 on board the "Wilhelmsburg" with her parents, Philip Heinz and Apollonia (nee Reichert) and two brothers Johann and Philip and her sister Eva. They departed from Hamburg and came via Hobart Town, Tasmania.
On arrival in Australia they changed the spelling of their name from Heintz to Heinz and originally settled in Clarence Town NSW where three other of her brothers were born.
In her teenage years, Margaretha, travelled many times between Sydney and Hill End by Cobb & Co coach where her brother Johann was operating his gold mine in partnership with his brother in law, Johann Krohmann. This is where she first met Heinrich Dorhauer, whom she was to later marry after the death of Heinrich's first wife Maria.
When Margaretha had turned twenty one years old, her brother Johann, who had made a fortune on the Hill End gold fields, took her and his wife Lucy to Germany for a holiday. They traveled with Johann And Eva Krohmann, (Margaretha's sister ) and their family on the ship "Baroda" which departed from Melbourne on the 27th of May 1872.
They returned to Australia one year later in September 1873 on board the "Somersetshire."
Heinrich built a home for Margaretha at 109 Queen Street Woollahra, she named it "Lorelei" after the rocks in the Rhine River near her home in Budenheim, Mainz,Germany. In the 1960's it was demolished by the Woollahra council to become what is now the "Dorhauer Lane carpark"
Margaretha was to acquire many terrace houses, shops and other properties, many of which were built by Heinrich, but she also acquired properties in her own right prior to her marriage to Heinrich Gottfried Theodore Dorhauer. At the time of her death in 1929 her estate listed 27 properties, twelve in Moncur Street, six in Queen Street, Woollahra, and nine in Wellington Street Blacktown. Six of the Moncur Street properties numbers 41,43,45,47,49, and 51 were leased from 1857 for a period of 99 years. Margaretha either acquired the leases after the death of Joseph Trickett from the estate of the Late Joseph Tricket, or its possible that she did so prior to Tricketts death when she was still a teenager. The head leesee for numbers 41 and 43 was The Commissioner for Railways Sydney and the sub leesee was Josseph Tricket.
At the time of her death Margaretha was 79 years old, she was 23 years younger than her husband Heinrich. She is buried with Heinrich in the Waverley Cemetery.
Link to Margareth's brother, Johann Heinz & sister, Eva Krohmann nee Heinz
http://sites.google.com/site/johannevaheinz/
Author: Russell Albert James Dorhauer
Surnames & Descendancy Charts & Pedigree Charts researched can be found on this link