The Lutge Family in Australia

Today's a good time to write about my immediate Lutge family as my Mum, Beryl, was born 90 years ago - 27 March 1928.   Beryl was the second child of Kelvin Walter (Kel) Lutge and Ethel Lillian Webb-Wagg.  Kel and Ethel married in 1921 at St Peter's Church of England, Neutral Bay. Kel served in the First World War and, after his return, was employed by the Department of Mines as a Warder and Lighterman at the Middle Harbour Powder Magazines.  By the early 1960s, Kel was the officer-in-charge of the Powder Magazines.  He left due to ill health and died in 1964, aged 64.   Kel's on the right of the photo. Beryl's brother John Walter (Jack) was born on 19 August 1922.  Here's Beryl with Ethel and Jack and Ethel's mother, Josephine, in the background at their home, 82 Gerard Street Cremorne.  Their home was build on land sub-divided from the parcel of land owned by Kel's parents, John Henry and Matilda Lutge, and was completed just in time for Beryl

Ann is the many times great grandmother to descendants of John Henry Lutge and his wife, Matilda Winton.  Ann was Matilda's mother - Ann is my 2nd great-grandmother.   We talked about Matilda's birth family back on 31 December 2017 - the 80th anniversary of Matilda's death.  Press here to link to that post. To recap, Matilda was the youngest child of Henry Winton and Ann Richards.  Henry was from Germany and Ann was from England - possibly Devon or Cornwall.  We can't find any record of Ann'e immigration but she arrived in the young colony in the mid 1850s.  Ann's parents may have been John Richards, a farmer, and Mary.  Ann was born in the 1830s.  As you can see, this is all very sketchy.  I'm thinking that genetic genealogy might give us the breakthrough, in time, to find out more about Ann and her birth family. Henry and Ann married on 16 April 1859 at the Scots Presbyterian Church in York Street, Sydney.  Here's an article from the Sydne