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Charles Rischbieth

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Charles Frederick Rischbieth
Born(1835-01-05)5 January 1835
Died5 April 1893(1893-04-05) (aged 58)
NationalityBritish Subject
OccupationBusiness management
Board member ofCommercial Bank of South Australia
SpouseElizabeth Susan Wills
ChildrenAt least 11, including Henry Wills Rischbieth

Charles Frederick Rischbieth (5 January 1835 – 5 April 1893), born Carl Friedrich Rischbieth, was a leading businessman in the early years of the colony of South Australia.

History

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Rischbieth was born in Neustadt am Rübenberge, near Hanover, Germany and emigrated to South Australia, arriving in 1854, with a number of young German migrants. He worked for a time in the drapery of R. B. Lucas in Hindley Street, but was hampered by his imperfect English. He next worked for McArthur, Kingsborough and Co.,[1] He and Carl Bolk were admitted into the partnership of G. & R. Wills & Co., and a few years later married Elizabeth Susan Wills, a niece of George and Richard Wills. In 1869, he succeeded Robert Alfred Tarlton as managing director of the company. In 1875 Rischbieth retired from active management of G. & R. Wills & Co., but continued to act as an agent for George Wills, who had long before returned to London.[2]

Rischbieth was a Director of the Commercial Bank of South Australia at the time of its collapse.

Pastoralist

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In 1875 Rischbieth and partner, Robert Alfred Tarlton, began the development of Coralbignie Station in the Gawler Ranges and Mount Nor'-West near Farina.[3][4]

Family

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He married Elizabeth Susan Wills (7 November 1842 – 15 January 1908) on 2 July 1862;[5] they lived at "Kolendo", Farrell Street, Glenelg. She died at Acton Vale, Port Elliot. Their children included:

  • Marie Louise Rischbieth (2 May 1863 – 26 April 1897)
  • Charles Frederick Rischbieth (17 September 1865 – 22 February 1937) married Nellie Mary Newman, a maternal cousin, on 3 May 1894
  • Elizabeth Susan "Lillie" Rischbieth (16 July 1867 – 14 June 1929) married accountant George Arthur Jury (16 June 1851 – 9 April 1932) on 9 September 1890. She was his second wife, his first, Mary née Wiedenhofer, having taken her own life.[6]
  • Charles Rischbieth Jury (13 September 1893 – 22 August 1958), poet and Professor of English at Adelaide University[7]
  • George Rischbieth Jury (7 April 1895 – 14 September 1916) was killed at The Somme[8]
  • Kathleen Rischbieth Jury (4 July 1897 – 24 May 1981) married Harry Richmond Aldridge (18 January 1891 – 3 January 1976), a son of James Henry Aldridge.
  • Margaret Rischbieth Jury (23 September 1900 – 1972)
  • Elizabeth Rischbieth Jury (19 December 1904 – 13 April 1954) married Gordon d'Arcy Wainwright (20 February 1900 – ?) on 12 September 1925
  • Ethel Marion Rischbieth (23 January 1872 – 18 September 1874)
  • Edith Constance Rischbieth (25 March 1874 – 12 February 1946), founder of the Mitcham Dogs' Home, later amalgamated with the RSPCA South Australia[12]
  • Harold Rischbieth MD, FRCS (26 March 1876 – 13 November 1943) married Eileen May de la Poer Beresford, a granddaughter of John Acraman, on 3 May 1916[13]
  • John Beresford Wills Rischbieth (17 August 1917 – 29 October 2017) married Joan Annette Stephenson (27 February 1923 – 14 April 2001) on 4 August 1944
  • Henry George Rischbieth VRD, MB BS, MRACP, DCH, FRACP (18 January 1920 – 4 December 1977) married Nancy Fearon Henderson (13 December 1921 – 26 April 2012) on 25 January 1945
  • Richard Harold Charles Rischbieth MB BS, MRCP, MRACP, FRCP, FRACP (4 August 1927 – 26 April 2007) married Judith Ann Wood (20 August 1928 – ) on 23 March 1957
  • Edgar Walters Rischbieth (2 April 1878 – 25 May 1878)
  • Norman Rischbieth (16 April 1879 – 8 November 1885)
  • Hilda Rischbieth (13 August 1881 – 5 April 1937) married Leslie Gardner Stock on 21 June 1906,[14] and second husband, Hector Norman Uphill, in June 1921[15]
  • Ernest August Rischbieth (5 August 1883 – 25 March 1918) married Jean Osborne Lathlean (1894 – ?) on 7 August 1917

A brother, Heinrich Carl Rischbieth (17 May 1840 – 6 February 1921) emigrated shortly after Charles, living at Mount Gambier.[16] He had six sons and two daughters. One of Heinrich's sons was the geographer Oswald Rishbeth.

Holtje & Rischbieth store in Mount Gambier, ca. 1880

Nephew Karl Rischbieth (18 October 1859 – 5 May 1945) was partner in Dettmer & Rischbieth[17]

References

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  1. ^ "The Advertiser. Thursday, April 6, 1893". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 6 April 1893. p. 4. Retrieved 16 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Obituary". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 11 April 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 16 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Death of Mr. Charles Rischbieth". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 11 April 1893. p. 3.
  4. ^ "North and North-West of Port Augusta. Stations and Their Owners". The Observer. Adelaide. 19 January 1924. p. 49.
  5. ^ "Married". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide. 7 July 1862. p. 2.
  6. ^ "Coroners' Inquests". Adelaide Observer. 29 March 1884. p. 28. Retrieved 19 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Jury, Charles Rischbieth (1893–1958)". Australian Dictionary of Biography (Vol 14). Melbourne University Press. 1996.
  8. ^ "Second Lieutenant George Rischbieth Jury". Australian War Memorial. 1914–1918.
  9. ^ "Mr. H. W. Rischbieth". The Daily News. Perth. 27 March 1925. p. 10 Edition: Third. Retrieved 20 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Obituary H. W. Rischbieth". The Pastoral Review. Melbourne. 16 September 1925. p. 781.
  11. ^ "Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel (1874–1967)". Australian Dictionary of Biography (Vol 11). Melbourne University Press. 1988.
  12. ^ "Saving Adelaide's Dogs Humane Work at Mitcham". The Advertiser and Register. Adelaide. 18 July 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 18 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "Marriages". The Chronicle. Adelaide. 6 May 1916. p. 34.
  14. ^ "Weddings". The Critic. Adelaide. 27 June 1906. p. 22.
  15. ^ "Divorce Court Busy. Happy Till He Enlisted". The Express and Telegraph. Adelaide. 5 November 1919. p. 1.
  16. ^ OBITUARY, Border Watch, Tue 8 February 1921.
  17. ^ "Out among the People". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 17 March 1937. p. 27.