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Blog posts-

  1. Commencing our Lutge voyage of discovery - Peter Benson Lutge died on 17 May 1890 - first published 17 May 2017
  2. The voyage continues with Mary Lutge (nee Bonner) - Peter's wife - first published 28 May 2017
  3. John Henry Lutge (1866 to 1929) -The first child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 16 June 2017
  4. Patrick Walter (Paddy) Lutge (abt 1867 to 1936) - The second child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 02 July 2017
  5. Mary Ann Ritchie (nee Lutge) (abt 1869 to 1911) - The third child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 12 July 2017
  6. Peter Benson Lutge (1870 to 1944) - The fourth child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 26 July 2017
  7. Denis (Dinny) Lutge (1879 to 1953) - The eight child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 20 August 2017
  8. 29 August 2017 - A trip to Gore Hill Cemetery  - first published 02 September 2017
  9. Margaret Lutge (abt 1881 to 1895) - The ninth child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 27 October 2017
  10. On 04 December 1772 in Aabenraa, Denmark - Carl Flor and Helena Bentzon married - first published 03 December 2017
  11. Eighty years after the death of Matilda Lutge (nee Winton) - 1868 to 1937 - first published 31 December 2017
  12. Hannah Maria Ford (nee Lutge) (abt 1872 to 1954) - The fifth child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge - first published 23 February 2018
  13. 150 years since the death of Ann Winton (nee Richards) on 29 February 1868 - first published 02 March 2018
  14. My branch of the Lutge Family - Kelvin Walter Lutge and Ethel Lillian Webb-Wagg - first published 27 March 2018
  15. ANZAC Day 2018 - Remembering Cliff and Kel Lutge's service in The First World War - first published 24 April 2018
  16. The Golden State Killer and DNA - first published 06 May 2018
  17. A "field trip" to Aabenraa, Denmark - The home of our many times great-grandfather - Peter Benson Lutge - first published 22 June 2018
  18. Field trip to Aabenraa completed - first published 30 July 2018
  19. 90 years since John Henry Lutge drowned in Sydney Harbour - 02 February 2019 - first published 02 February 2019
  20. John Henry Lutge - The Mosman Poundkeeper - first published 03 February 2019
  21. Today we remember Mary Joyce Brown (known as Joyce) who was born on 06 February 1919 - first published 06 February 2019
  22. 150 days today since our many times great-grandfather, Peter Benson Lutge, was naturalised! - first published 26 June 2019
  23. Kelvin and Helene Lutge and Matilda, their mother - first published 30 September 2019
  24. Finally DNA evidence that Mary Ann and Hannah Maria are the children of Peter and Mary Lutge - first published 14 December 2019
  25. Enid Purcell Taylor (nee Lutge) - born on this day 100 years ago! - first published 19 June 2020
  26. 150 years since the death of our many times great grandmother - Maria Lutge (nee Jensen) - first published 20 July 2020
  27. Was "Matilda Armstrong" my most elusive ancestor? - first published 23 October 2021
  28. Able Seaman Godfrey Frederick Callaghan (1906 to 1942) - first published 6 April 2022

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Commencing our Lutge voyage of discovery - Peter Benson Lutge died on 17 May 1890

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We've set up this space to connect with Lutge descendants in Australia - to share stories and develop our understanding of the family in Australia and our Danish and Irish roots. Peter Benson Lutge was born on 15 March 1837 on Aabenraa, Aabenraa-Sonderborg, Denmark.  Peter was the oldest of the eight children of Johann Friedrich Lutge (Lytge or Lutje) and Maria Cathrina Jensen (Jensdr).  The various spellings demonstrate how difficult this research can be!  Equally, there can be absolute gems fall into you lap like this page from the 1855 Denmark Census. https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10258-1907202-/peter-b-lutge-in-1855-denmark-census?indId=individual-382609941-2000217&s=382609941 Dated 4 August 1855, Peter Benson, aged 17, is living at Vaegterplads in Aabenraa with his father, Johann Friedrich (47), his mother, Maria Cathrina (45) and his 2 younger brothers and 5 younger sisters - Cathrina Dorothea (16), Hans Jensen (14), Johann Friedrich (12)
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The voyage continues with Mary Lutge (nee Bonner) - Peter's wife

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Having spent last Thursday at a study course on Irish records, it's a good time to share my findings to date about our matriarch, Mary Bonner.  Again there are many variations to the spelling of the name including Bonnor, Boner and Bonar.  Maybe we should just call her Mary B! Over the last year, I've been working with our Lutge cousin, Karen, on our family story.  We had Mary B's marriage and death registrations.  Based on these, we thought that Mary B was born in the late 1840s in County Donegal, Ireland and came to Australia in the early 1860s.  Our next stage was to find out about Mary B's birth family and voyage to Australia. A few weeks ago, we were sitting in a coffee shop, laptop between us and looking at the new information AncestryDNA provides called "Genetic Communities".  We've both tested with AncestryDNA and the strongest "Genetic Community" I belong to is the one formed around Donegal highlighting Mary B.  
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Denis (Dinny) Lutge (1879 to 1953) - The eighth child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge

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Denis (Dinny) is the most well known of our Lutge family.  There's even a "wikipedia" entry which gives Dinny's birth date as 26 November 1879.  All sorts of searching of the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and still no success in finding a birth registration.  So, the search continues.... Dinny was the eighth child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge.  He moved to the Mosman area with the family in the mid 1880s.  While Dinny worked as a stevedore in his early life, he commenced his rugby union career with the Mosman Junior in 1893.  We can see how young he is in this picture where he is second from the right in the second row (behind the fellow with the cap).  Three of his brothers are in the bottom row -  far left is Bob Lutge, second from left is Peter Lutge, second from right is Paddy Lutge. Between 1901 and 1907, Dinny played rugby union for the Northern Suburbs Club.  He made his international debut as a lock-forward in the first rugby un
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