Pribislaw and other German ships
The Pribislaw, which arrived in Melbourne on 2 February 1850, brought half the original Germans and Wends who settled at Westgarthtown – the Franke, Graff, Karsten, Maltzahn, Peters, Rosel, Winter, Wuchatsch, Ziebell and Zimmer families. Other settlers arrived aboard the Godeffroy (Gruenberg, Heyne, Knobloch and Wehner), Dockenhuden (Kawerau and Wanke) and Emmy (Siebel) in 1849 and the Alfred (Groening and Timm), which arrived in February 1850.