Henry Noltenius

History

Family

• Henry Noltenius married Emma Eliza Payne on 1 July 1852. She was the eldest daughter of Samuel Payne of Payneham. They had a home in Bridge Street, Kensington. Their family included:
• Bernhard August Noltenius founded Noltenius, Meyer & Co., wine and spirit merchants with Christian Ludwig Meyer in Adelaide by 1848, had a similar business at corner of Flinders Lane and Market Square, Melbourne 1852–1856. Both Noltenius and Meyer were proved insolvent in 1857. He had a shop at 31 Currie Street 1884–1887 or later. He left Adelaide, died in Borgfeld, near Bremen. Was he the person listed as "C. B. Noltenius", passenger aboard Leontine arrived August 1848 ?
• Johannes Lebrecht Noltenius was tobacconist at Beechworth, Victoria around 1858. He managed mines at Montacute and the Barossa Valley. From around 1873 he managed a copper mine at Yam Creek in the Northern Territory, where he died of spear wounds inflicted by Aborigines. A party sent to arrest the culprits and recover stolen property took it on themselves to conduct a reprisal, killing around five Aborigines.