Auguste Emilie Helene "Lena" BEHM b. 23 Aug 1880 Storkow, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia d. 27 Mar 1962 Ipswich Hospital, Chelmsford Ave, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia: Colston & Wenck families in Australia

1880 - 1962 (81 years)

Name	Auguste Emilie Helene "Lena" BEHM [1]
Nickname	Lena
Born	23 Aug 1880	Storkow, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia [1, 2, 3]
Christened	12 Sep 1880	Storkow, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia [1]
Gender	Female
Immigration	7 Jan 1884	Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia [4]
	The family left Plymouth, England 7 Nov 1883 on board the "Goalpara" which arrived in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1 Jan 1884. Some passengers disembarked there and at Townsville, Bowen, Mackay, Rockhampton and Moreton Bay where the Behm family disembarked. On 8 January the passengers were put into quarantine on Peel Island. The Behms were listed as free nominated and were: August 36, Emilie 27, Albert 8, Auguste 3, August 1 dead (he died at Colombo) Emilie was known in Australia as Bertha, and Auguste as Lena/Eleanor/Helena
AKA	Auguste [4]
FamilySearch ID	KZRY-4MN
FamilySearch link	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZRY-4MN
Died	27 Mar 1962	Ipswich Hospital, Chelmsford Ave, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia [5]
	Cause: Hypostatic pneumonia, Arteriosclerosis, Senility, Dry Gangrene of right leg
Cremated	28 Mar 1962	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens, 329 Nursery Road, Holland Park, Queensland, Australia [6]
	Event Description: Mt Thompson Crematorium Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens Location: Columbarium 13 Section: Section 20 Lat/Lng: -27.52610, 153.07760
Notes	Lena knitted in the continental fashion, with the needle points close together and the knitting done at great speed. She also cut the bread in a strange fashion, which other German people apparently did, holding the loaf to her chest and sawing towards herself. She was a rather quiet woman.
Person ID	I47	Colston & Wenck families in Australia
Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

Father	August Friedrich Wilhelm BEHM, b. 31 Aug 1847, Storkow, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia , d. 19 Oct 1895, Rosewood Scrub (Minden), Queensland, Australia (Age 48 years)
Mother	Emilie Bertha Friederike "Bertha" STRASSBURG, b. 30 Aug 1856, Radewitz, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia , d. 8 Sep 1939, Coolana, Queensland, Australia (Age 83 years)
Married	26 Jun 1874	Grünz, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia
Family ID	F91	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Adolph Christian Georg "Otto" WENCK, b. 1 May 1874, Kluesfeld, Bau, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia (Bov, Denmark) , d. 20 Apr 1941, Coolana, Queensland, Australia (Age 66 years)

Married 16 Feb 1899 Ipswich, Queensland, Australia [7, 8]

Married in the Office of the District Registrar, East Street, Ipswich.
Witnesses R. Wenck [Reimer Wenck] and Bertha Behm
The reason for marrying in the registry office and not a church was probably because of disagreement with the type of Lutheran Church locally. To be married or buried in church required membership of the congregation. Some of Otto's siblings also married at the registry office. Non-membership of a church congregation would be the same reason the Wenck burial plot was established on the Wenck farm.

WENCK, Adolph "Otto" & Lena née Behm

Children

+	1. Sylvia Ivy Valerie WENCK, b. 14 Apr 1900, Hillside (Coolana), Queensland, Australia , d. 23 May 2002, Bundaleer Lodge Nursing Home, North Ipswich, Queensland, Australia (Age 102 years)
+	2. Myrtle Clorine Ruby WENCK, b. 19 Mar 1911, Lowood, Queensland, Australia , d. 20 Oct 1985, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia (Age 74 years)

Last Modified 9 Jul 2018

Family ID F41 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 23 Aug 1880 - Storkow, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia
	Christened - 12 Sep 1880 - Storkow, Kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia
	Immigration - 7 Jan 1884 - Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia
	Married - 16 Feb 1899 - Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
	Died - Cause: Hypostatic pneumonia, Arteriosclerosis, Senility, Dry Gangrene of right leg - 27 Mar 1962 - Ipswich Hospital, Chelmsford Ave, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
	Cremated - 28 Mar 1962 - Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens, 329 Nursery Road, Holland Park, Queensland, Australia

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WENCK, Lena née Behm

WENCK, Adolph "Otto" & Lena née Behm

WENCK, Lena under the house at Coolana
The hydrangea blooms are huge.

WENCK, Lena in garden at Coolana

Sources

[S608] Strassburg research in church books of Storkow, Grünz and Penkun, May 2012, Martin Sohn, Storkow, 14/1880.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, 1899/B18471 Marriage certificate.
[S95] Collin's Home Dictionary owned by Sylvia Wenck, Mum's birthday 25 August.
[S423] QSA Assisted Immigration 1848-1912 index [database on-line], (http://www.archives.qld.gov.au), IMM/118 562 Z1961 M1699.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Death registration: Lena Wenck, Death date: 27/03/1962, Mother's name: Bertha Strahburg, Father/parent's name: August Behm, Registration details: 1962/C/2089.
[S738] Heaven Address Resting Place, (https://www.heavenaddress.com/restingplace), Mt Thompson Crematorium.
[S16] Queensland Federation Index 1890-1914, (Brisbane, The Registrar-General, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, 2004), 1899/ 001782.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Marriage registration: Adolph George Christian Wenck, Marriage date: 16/02/1899, Spouse's name: Lena Behm, Registration details: 1899/C/1782.