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Does this fellow fit in with any listers?
Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand KAISER 19 years, ore sorter of Clausthal, Hanover is listed as a passenger aboard STEINWARDER, a barque of 258t,which departed Hamburg 31 May 1853 and arrived at Port Adelaide,South Australia on the 16 Sept 1853 under Master Torgenson
On the 8 January 1854 Wilhelm arrived in Victoria,Australia aboard the HAVELAH. He received his Citizenship/naturalization in Sandhurst, probably on 16 April 1861
He died at St Kilda, Victoria, in 1919, aged 86.
Kindly Submitted by Nic Haygarth... (Author of 'BARON BISCHOFF..History of Tasmanian Mining')
Tasmania’s first high-profile mining manager, Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand (‘Ferd’) Kayser was born at Clausthal, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1833, where he graduated from the Royal Academy of Mines. A champion of mechanisation, Kayser deplored ‘primitive’ Cornish tin-dressing. This imposing figure managed the famously rich Mount Bischoff tin mine from 1875 to 1907. His blunt, autocratic style, and directorial support for his methods, alienated the mine’s founder, James ‘Philosopher’ Smith, but under Kayser’s management Mount Bischoff became one of Australia’s most profitable 19th-century base metal mines. Launceston’s grand Victorian-era buildings testify to his drive, milling expertise and deliverance of dividends, but his extraction technique was laborious and the directors’ ‘strip mine’ mentality shortened Mount Bischoff’s life. Kayser’s vigorous ‘rule’ of the ‘company town’ of Waratah was praised by some and resented by others.
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