Heinrich Christian Dürrhauer

     Heinrich Christian Dürrhauer was born on 15 September 1831 at Kasseedorf, Schleswig-Holstein.¹ He was the son of Johann Christopher August Dürrhauer and Sophia Dorothea Stephan.¹ Heinrich Christian Dürrhauer married, at age 31, Wilhelmina Louisa Meurer, age 23, daughter of Christian Frederick Meurer and Karoline Wilhelmina Walter, on Tuesday, 1 September 1863 at Scot's Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.¹ Heinrich Christian Dürrhauer died on 14 June 1904 at Woollahra, Municipality of Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia, at age 72 years, 8 months and 30 days.¹
     Heinrich Christian Dorhauer travelled to England and then to Australia with his brother Heinrich Gottfried Theodore. Both brothers went to Hill End New South Wales where they had a timber yard, as well as the timber yard they dabbled in gold prospecting until they finally moved to Woollahra, a suburb of Sydney. He had ten children with his wife Wilhelmina, two of which died in infancy.¹