First Generation  

1. Andreas Friedrich Strauss , son of Georg Adam Strauss and Margaretha Bardua , was born on 26 Aug 1788 in Mussbach, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, died on 26 Sep 1871 in Blumberg, South Australia, Australia, at age 83, and was buried in Blumberg, South Australia, Australia.

Friedrich was born in what is now southern German not far from the French border, there were still relatives living in this area in the 1930's, Dolph Strauss, Andreas Friedrichs grandson mentions visiting them in his diary when he took a world tour at the time. I believe it is also the area where Johann Strauss the composer was born if they were related or not I do not know.
The next information on Friedrich we find on the birth certificates of some of his children, he and his wife were living in Danzig (now Gdask) at the time of the birth of their second son in 1825, he was a protestant and was employed as a locksmith/metalworker.

Danzig had a turbulent history and had been under the control of several countries. It was annexed by Prussia in 1793, Prussian rule in the partitions of 1793 and 1795 united Danzig and far stretches of her economic hinterland. Exports, especially of grain, increased. In the early years of the 19th century's first decade. Trade in the port of Danzig continued to increase. The city's population rose from 38,738 in 1794 to 44,511 in 1806, military personnel and their families not included (2 regiments were stationed in the city). In 1806 Prussia entered the Fourth Coalition against Napoleon, together with Britain and Russia. Napoleon defeated the Prussian forces and Danzig then fell under French administration from 1807 to 1813 during the period 10,000 French soldiers were billeted in burghers' houses, to be lodged and fed at their expense, taxes were increased and the British Navy blockaded the port, as a result the city's population had dwindled to 37,131 under the French. In 1814 the return of Prussian rule meant the implementation of a number of reforms introduced in Prussia in the preceding years, most notably FREEDOM OF TRADE (thus the elimination of the guilds which had determined the city's economic life for the previous centuries), MANDATORY MILITARY DUTY (Danzigers no longer exempted) and COMMUNAL SELF-ADMINISTRATION. At this time Danzig was Prussian, but not part of the German Confederation. During the revolution of 1848, the city council applied for the city, with all of West Prussia, to be accepted into the latter. Yet few signs of revolutionary sentiment in the city were suppressed; law and order were, at no stage of the German Revolution, in jeopardy. In 1857, the Danish Sound Levy was abolished, an event of eminent importance to Danzig trade; England had applied Free Trade policy since 1846, a relief for Danzig trade as the high protective tariffs on grain (Corn Laws) thereby were scrapped. MORE ON DANZIG (GDANSK) HISTORY.

However by 1846 the Strauss family had decided to make a new life for themselves and prepared to leave for South Australia. They left their house at number 598 Tischlergrasse Danzig making their way to Bremen on the beginning of a journey that would take them halfway round the world.
Record of Andreas Friedrich Strauss his wife recorded as Auguste Constantine Pauline Pramschnieder and 4 children (Otto Ferdinand?, Karl Wilhelm?,) Friedrich Rudolph & J Adolph arrived South Australia on 28 Oct 1846 on the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel from Bremen there is however no original passenger list for this voyage and this information has been pieced together from various sources note there is no mention of his two daughters. There is also a record of Otto Ferdinand Strauss arriving a few months earlier on the George Washington so I doubt he came out with his parents. The colony of South Australia had only been established eleven years earlier in 1835 with the first boat load of immigrants from England, followed a year later by Kavel's German emigrants with the aim of settling and developing agriculture in the area. By the time Andreas and family arrived the population of the colony had grown to 22,390  (excl aborigines) and there was about 11,000 hectares under cultivation.

From an apprenticeship certificate issued to his son, Carl Wilhelm, in 1845, it indicated that Friedrich was a master tradesman in the Lock, Spur and Reel Makers Guild in Danzig, and from hearsay information when he first arrived in South Australia he was employed by the Government to repair locks in goals and public buildings. The family however eventually settled in Blumberg in the Adelaide Hills were they had a small farm; it was there it seems that Friedrich and Pauline spent their remaining years.

Andreas Friedrich Strauss burial record Birdwood at Cromer Rd Cemetery

Andreas married Constantia Augustina Pauline Pramschnieder . Constantia was born in Feb 1792 in Germany, died on 27 Aug 1879 in Summerfeldt Nr Murray Bridge, South Australia, at age 87,and was buried in Blumberg, South Australia, Australia.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 2 M    i. Otto Ferdinand Strauss was born in 1823 in Germany, died on 7 Jan 1895 in Summerfeldt, South Australia, Australia, at age 72, and was buried in Jan 1895 in Palmer, South Aust. Australia.

+ 3 M    ii. Carl Wilhelm Strauss was born on 1 Oct 1825 in Danzig, East Prussia, died on 14 Sep 1915 in Mannum, South Australia, Australia, at age 89, and was buried on 15 Sep 1915 in Mannum, South Australia, Australia.

+ 4 F    iii. Johanna Rosalie Strauss was born on 12 Jan 1826 in Danzig, East Prussia, died on 17 Nov 1898 in Woodside, South Australia, Australia, at age 72, and was buried in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia.

+ 5 M    iv. Frederick Rudolph Strauss was born in 1827, died on 4 Apr 1903 in Blyth, South Australia, Australia, at age 76, and was buried in Blyth, South Australia, Australia.

+ 6 F    v. Emma Mathilde Strauss was born in 1832 and died on 1 Aug 1889 in Palmer, South Aust. Australia, at age 57.

+ 7 M    vi. Johann Adolph Strauss was born on 19 Apr 1829 in Danzig, East Prussia, died on 12 Feb 1915 in Summerfeldt Nr Murray Bridge, South Australia, at age 85, and was buried in Palmer The Gap, South Aust. Australia.