Schreyvogel, Daniel

Obituary

Death of an Old Colonist.— Another of the old colonial first settlers has passed away in the person of Mr. D. H. Schreyvogel, who died on Monday morning, December 13, in his 70th year. Daniel Henry Schreyvogel was a German, who came out from London in the first ship that arrived in the colony, the Duke of York, in 1836, as a clerk in the employ of the South Australian Company. In 1838 the deceased was accidentally thrown from a horse, and received injuries which up to the time of his death seriously affected his mental faculties. For several years following the accident, how ever, he was engaged at the Bank of South Australia. One of his duties consisted in serving notices of dishonoured bills, and so thoroughly did his name become associated with the task that the recipients of the unwelcome documents got in the habit of saying they had been ' Schreyvogeled.' After leaving that situation he lived for about twenty years on capital that he had accumulated. Thereafter Mr. Thomas Giles (of Messrs. Anstey & Giles) found a sinecure for him at a sheep station on Yorke's Peninsula ; but eventually he came to Adelaide, and for six years previous to his decease he was an inmate of the Destitute Asylum. He was one of the oldest members of the first Congregational Church under the late Rev. T. Q. Stow, and since the accident that befell him he received continual tokens of interest and sympathy from his fellow-members. Owing to the unfortunate accident deceased was subject to many strange delusions, and frequently wrote to the Government and private individuals on various topics. Most old colonials remember the old gentleman, who was so thoroughly identified with the early days of the colony, and his death will revive bygone times. The committee arranging for the Old Colonists' gathering had sent him a complimentary ticket for the conversazione only the week before his death took place. As far as we know the deceased had no relatives in the colony.