 1841 - 1895 (54 years)
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 | Ship's Manifest for S.S. Australia - Honolulu to San Francisco - Departing June 14, 1895
The manifest shows Bruno Weyser (age 55 yrs 6 mos), a Swiss farmer who had last been in San Francisco in 1892), his wife Elisa (age 49 yrs 7 mos), daughters Marie (age 18 yrs 9 mos, possibly crossed out), Fanny (age 9 yrs 11 mos), and Lena (age 7 yrs 10 mos). The ship left on June 14, 1895, and arrived on July 1, 1895. |
 | Marriage Certificate - Ida Wyser and Albert Widmer
20 May 1887 in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia |
 | Odd Fellows' Cemetery Crematory Record for Bruno Wyser
Bruno died of cancer (age 54 years 9 months) at the Lane Hospital in San Francisco on 7 Dec 1895. He was cremated on 9 Dec 1895 (3:00 PM), and his ashes were collected by his widow on 29 April 1896. She was then living at 31 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. |
 | Passenger Manifest of S.S. Arawa - Depart San Francisco 12 Jan 1895, Arrive Honolulu 19 Jan 1895 - Bruno Wyser and Family, from Switzerland, "seeking employment"
Sheet 2 of the passenger manifest, for steerage passengers, shows Bruno Wyser, age 53, a tanner from Switzerland, arriving in Honolulu "seeking employment." With Bruno are wife Eliza (48) and children Mary (23), Lily (22), Bruno (10), Fanny (8), and Lena (6). [We believe Lena is Amy Winifred, daughter of Ida Alice Wyser.]
Manifest courtesy of the Hawaii State Archives, Honolulu. |
 | Bruno Wyser - Page 149 from Niedergösgen - Eine Reise durch die Geschichte by Beat Holder, 2008
Translation by Ingeborg Gowans:
(1) Example: Bruno Wyser
Concerning a son of Alois Wyser (1797-1870), Cantonal Councillor, (Regierungsrat) and armoury administrator (Zeughausverwalter) in Solothurn, Bruno Wyser emigrated to Uruguay in 1860 at the age of 18.
His cousin Katharina Wyser (1826-1901) dedicated the following poem to him at his departure for America: (29)
When, after many years you will return to this page and recall old times
may you remember the house nestled among the shade giving trees,
where you used to play, trying bow and arrow,
where you spent many a day,
enjoying carefree hours with us..
Now you are off to foreign lands
and we shall not see you anymore
May God grant you good health and well being in your life
May your Guardian Angel walk before you..
It is not clear whether Wyser served in the army, whether he found a new home in the newly established Swiss colony "New Helvetia" or even worked for the shoe enterprise Bally. We know for certain that he married in 1869 in Montevideo, (30) as can be seen in the church registry of Niedergösgen:
| Wedding ceremony: | Feb. 03, 1869
published by the German-protestant parish in Montevideo | | Name of couple: | Bruno Wiser Alois, Catholic, 27 years of age
Elisa Schönhals, Protestant , 25 years of age
daughter of Pastor Johann Schönhals of Montevideo | | Witnesses: | Louis Erni and Leo Tugginer | | A few years later the young family returned to Niedergösgen
In 1873 Elisa Schönhals and Bruno Wyser had a child in Niedergösgen
| | Birth: | April 13, 1873 | | Name of child: | Emilia Katharina | | Witnesses at baptism: | Johann Schönhals and Emilia Balli (Schönenwerd) |
Not only did he emigrate again, but also considerably enlarged his family. The testament of his brother Otto Wyser (who died in 1914) mentions six children (Ida, Marie, Emilie, Otto, Bruno and Fanny). Some of them lived in San Francisco and in Honolulu. (31)
It is remarkable that the descendants of the family keep the family history of Niedergösgen alive. (32)
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 | Letter of Aunt Wiser-Herzog in Solothurn, dated 30 Dec 1875 - From Niedergösgen - Eine Reise durch die Geschichte by Beat Holder, 2008
Translated by Ingeborg Gowans:
[...]
Bruno's (17) last news sound quite favourable.
[51]
reporting that.. he has a fairly profitable income, lives in a place where there are many Germans, and even found someone from Solothurn, his family is enjoying good health, and added a boy to the clan (since he wrote last). However, months have passed again since he last wrote this letter, who knows how he is doing now? I had to struggle with my strong desire to see him and the dear children. I found it often unbearable to live without my dear Marie who is close to my heart and each time when I think of this precious child, I have to fight back tears.
[...] |
 | New South Wales Police Gazette - 8 Apr 1891 - Otto Wiser
On page 121: "Sydney - A warrant has been issued by the Central PoliceBench for the arrest of Otto Wiser, charged under the Industrial Schools Act. He is about 15 years of age, short and stout build, fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes: dressed in a short-cut dark-gray sac coat and gray trousers: very shabby and dirty looking. Complainant, Bruno Wiser, 193 Elizabeth Street." |
 | Sands Directory - 1881 - Bruno Wyser
The 1881 Sands Directory (1881, page 41) shows Bruno Wyser living on Regent Street in Adeliade, South Australia. |
 | Bruno Wyser - South Australia, 1882
The 1882 South Australia Directory shows Bruno Wyser, a tanner, living at Ifould Street. (Page 38) |
 | "They Swear Fealty - Hawaiians and Others Who Will Support the Republic"
Pacific Commercial Advertiser - 30 January 1895 - Page 6 |
 | Bruno Wyser (and others) take the Oath of Allegiance to the Republic of Hawaii
The Hawaiian Star - 29 Jan 1895. Bruno arrived in Hawaii, from San Francisco, on 19 Jan 1895 "seeking employment," and takes the oath within his first ten days in the Republic. |
| Headstones |
 | Gravestone in Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii
It is unclear if Bruno's remains are buried here: the office at the cemetery says that they are, but this is inconsistent with his obituary from the California newspaper. |
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| Name |
Bruno Albert Wiser |
- Also known as Bruno Weyser and Bruno Wyser
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| Birth |
6 Nov 1841 |
Solothurn, Switzerland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Imigration |
1877 |
Adelaide, South Australia [1] |
Official assisted passage passenger lists show arrival in South Australia on 23 Jan 1877 on the Herschel:
Adolf (presumably Alfred) Wyser
Emilie (presumably Emilia) Wyser
Ida Wyser
Marie Wyser
Otto Wyser
Bruno Wyser
Elise (presumably Elisa) Wyser
The voyage (sequence 77/6) apparently began in Hamburg. |
| Residence |
1881 |
Adeliade, South Australia |
| From the Sands Directory |
Address:
Regent Street
Adelaide, South Australia |
| Residence |
1882 |
Adeliade, South Australia |
| Occupation in the South Australia Directory shown as tanner (page 32). |
Address:
Ifould Street
Adelaide, South Australia |
| Residence |
11 Apr 1882 |
Adeliade, South Australia |
| Residence as shown on son Bruno's birth record. |
Address:
Grenfell Street
Hindmarsh Ward
Adelaide, South Australia |
| Occupation |
29 Sep 1884 |
Glebe, N.S.W., Australia |
| Fanny Weyser's birth certificate shows Bruno Wyser is a Tanner. |
| Residence |
29 Sep 1884 |
Glebe, N.S.W., Australia [2] |
| Occupation (in Sands Directory): Tanner |
Address:
14 Mitchell Street
Glebe, NSW
Australia |
| Residence |
1886 |
Sydney, Australia [3] |
| Occupation in 1886 Sands Directory: Tanner. Surname shown as Weiser |
Address:
Mayes Street
Leichhardt
Sydney, NSW
Australia |
| Occupation |
20 May 1887 |
Glebe, N.S.W., Australia |
| On Ida Wiser's marriage certificate, Bruno is shown as a Carpenter. |
Address:
Franklyn Place
Glebe, N.S.W.
Australia |
| Residence |
1888 |
Sydney, Australia [4] |
| Occupation in 1888 Sands Directory: Tanner |
Address:
21 Bunn Street
Sydney, NSW
Australia |
| Residence |
1889 |
Sydney, Australia [5] |
| Occupation in 1889 Sands Directory: Tanner. Surname spelled Wycer. |
Address:
183 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW
Australia |
| Residence |
1890 |
Sydney, Australia [6] |
| Occupation in 1890 Sands Directory: Tanner |
Address:
193 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW
Australia |
| Death |
7 Dec 1895 |
San Francisco, California |
- Cause of death: Cancer. Died at the Lane Hospital in San Francisco, California, attended by Dr L C Lane (Levi C Lane).
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| Cremated |
9 Dec 1895 |
Crematory at Odd Fellows' Cemetery |
| Cremated (or "incinerated") at 3:00 PM on December 9, 1895. No autopsy performed. The ashes were received by Mrs E. Wyser on 29 Apr 1896. |
| Age: 54 y 9 mos |
| Cause: Cancer |
| Cremation |
Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii |
- According to the Crematory records from the Odd Fellows' Cemetery (sheet 62), Bruno Wyser died from cancer on 7 Dec 1895 at Lane Hospital, San Francisco. His attending physician was L. C. Lane, and there was no autopsy. Bruno Wyser was 54 years 9 months old. His remains were received by the crematory on 9 Dec 1895 and were "incinerated" at 3:00 PM. The witness to the incineration was James W. Mallady. The arrangements were handled by Union Undertaking Company, and the ashes were "delivered to Mrs. Wyser 29 April 1896." She signed a receipt as "Mrs. E. Wyser, 31 Minna Street."
We have received the cremation record from the California Genealogical Society, with special thanks to Nancy Peterson.
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| Notes |
- According to Beat Hodler:
A Cousin of Bruno Wyser: Catharina Wyser (1826-1901): During many years, she ran the post-office in Niedergösgen. She wasn’t married. She wrote a very varied diary which is today an excellent historical source. In this diary, you find a lot of information about weather, politics, religion, prices, popular medicine and so on. There is also a poem which she dedicated to her cousin Bruno, when he left Switzerland in 1860. In this poem she remembers the good times they had spent together and she expresses also a blessing:
Dem Bruno Wyser ins Stammbuch bei seiner Abreise nach Amerika 1860:
Wenn auf dem Blatt nach langer Zeit
dein Aug einst sinnend ruhen bleibt
dann mög vor deinem Blick erscheinen
das Haus, umgeben von den Bäumen;
In dessen Schatten du einst spieltest
Nach der Scheibe mit der Armbrust zieltest,
Und manche liebe Ferienzeit
So sorglos dich mit uns erfreut
Du willst nun in die Fremde gehen
Wir werden lange dich nicht mehr sehn.
Möge nun in deinem Leben,
Gott viel Glück und Heil dir geben
Und dein guter Engel mit dir gehn
Translated (by Ingeborg Gowans) into English:
For Bruno Wyser : at his departure to America in 1860:
When, after many years, you will return to this page
and recall old times
may you remember the house nestled among the shadegiving trees,
where you used to play, trying bow and arrow,
where you spent many a day, enjoying carefree hours with us..
Now you are off to foreign lands
And we shall not see you anymore
May God grant you good health and wellbeing in your life
May your Guardian Angel walk before you.
- According to Beat Hodler:
"I still don't know why Bruno actually travelled to Montevideo, but I guess that his emigration had something to do with the Bally enterprise. His family was related to the Bally family. Bally was at that time one of the very big European shoe producers. Around 1870, Bally tended to expand to South America, whith some difficulties at the beginning and quite a good success in the long run. In the 1870's Bruno Wyser returned to Niedergösgen, where he spent some years before emigrating again (as you know already). In 1873, Elisa Schönhals and Bruno Wyser had a child in Niedergösgen, whose godmother was Emilia Balli. (source: Kirchenbuch Niedergösgen).
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| Person ID |
I21 |
Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Craig |
| Last Modified |
15 Oct 2018 |
| Father |
Alois Wiser, b. 18 Jul 1797, Niedergosgen, Switzerland d. 28 Oct 1870, Solothurn, Switzerland (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
Katharina Herzog, c. 17 May 1801 d. 16 Nov 1886, Solothurn, Switzerland (Age ~ 85 years) |
| Marriage |
14 May 1832 |
Catholic Church of Solothurn, Switzerland |
| Record ID Number |
MH:F14 |
| Family ID |
F14 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elisa Schoenhals, b. 20 Mar 1841, Simmersbach, Germany d. 19 Jul 1910, 573 Jones Street, Oakland, California (Age 69 years) |
| Marriage |
3 Feb 1869 |
Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Type: German-Evangelistic Church |
| Marriage Witnesses |
03 Feb 1869 |
Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer |
| Minister |
03 Feb 1869 |
Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Pastor Hopper |
| Children |
| + | 1. Ida Alice Wyser, b. 30 Oct 1867, Montevideo, Uruguay d. 16 Feb 1941, On Board S.S. Mariposa at Sea, Between Samoa and Suva, Fiji (Age 73 years) |
| + | 2. Maria Constantina Wiser, b. 31 Dec 1871, Aarau/AG, Switzerland d. 22 Mar 1961, Merritt Hospital, Oakland, California (Age 89 years) |
| + | 3. Emilia Katharina Wyser, b. 5 Apr 1873, Niedergosgen, Switzerland d. 21 Nov 1959, Eugene, Oregon (Age 86 years) |
| | 4. Alfred Alois Wiser, b. 24 May 1874, Niedergosgen, Switzerland d. 21 Mar 1881, Conningham Street, Young Ward, South Australia (Age 6 years) |
| | 5. Otto Edwin Wiser, b. 6 Oct 1875, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
| | 6. Fanny Wiser, b. 1878 d. 29 Mar 1879, South Australia (Age 1 year) |
| | 7. Bertha Fanny Wiser, b. 15 Mar 1880, Bailey's Garden, Adelaide, South Australia d. 09 Jan 1881, Regent Street, Young Ward, Adeliade, South Australia (Age 0 years) |
| | 8. Bruno Wiser, b. 11 Apr 1882, Grenfell Street, Hindmarsh Ward, Adeliade, South Australia |
| | 9. Otto Wiser, b. 08 Nov 1883, Sydney, Australia d. 01 Dec 1947, Fairmont Hospital, San Leandro, California (Age 64 years) |
| | 10. Fannie Wyser, b. 29 Sep 1884, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia d. 28 Mar 1971, Oakland, California (Age 86 years) |
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| Documents
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 | Bruno Wyser's Obituary - December 8 1895
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![Marriage of Bruno Wyser and Elise Schönhals - German Evangelical Church [Lutheran] - Montevideo, Uruguay](documents/thumb_Bruno-Wyser-Marriage-W.jpg "Marriage of Bruno Wyser and Elise Schönhals - German Evangelical Church [Lutheran] - Montevideo, Uruguay") | Marriage of Bruno Wyser and Elise Schönhals - German Evangelical Church [Lutheran] - Montevideo, Uruguay
First name/family name of groom: Bruno Wyser, Solothurn, Switzerland
Occupation and address of father of the groom: Armoury Manager; Solothurn, Switzerland
Age of groom: 27 years
First name/family name of bride: Elise Schönhals, Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hessen [Germany]
Name, address and occupation of father of the bride: Johannes Schönhals, Pastor, Simmersbach
Age of bride: 25 years
Date of ceremony: 3 Feb 1869
Name of pastor who performed the marriage ceremony: Pastor Hopper
Witnesses: Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer
German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans.
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 | Arrival of the Wyser Family in Adelaide, South Australia - 23 Jan 1877
This passenger manifest, from the collection of State Records of South Australia, shows the arrival in Adeliade on 23 Jan 1877 of: Bruno Wyser (age 35), Elisa (age 32), Ida (9), Marie [?] (4), Emilie (3), Adolph (2), and Otto (3/4).
According to the Palmer List of Merchant Vessels: "The British ship EDITH BYRNE (Official No. 16216) was built by the Canada Works, Birkenhead, in 1856 (first registered, Liverpool 9 June 1857). 729.44 tons register; 165.4 x 30.2 x 19.7 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks.
"In March 1865, the EDITH BYRNE was purchased from Byrne, of Liverpool, for £8,250 by the Hamburg shipowner, Robert Miles Sloman, who renamed her HERSCHEL, after an earlier vessel that he had sold in Indonesia in 1859. Measurements (Hamburg): 333 Commerzlasten /787 tons; 50,3 x 9,1 x 5,79 meters (length x beam x depth of hold)."
The master from 1875-1878 was J. J. Kammann. The vessel's voyages in the 1870's:
1871/73 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Amsterdam/Cuxhaven
1873/74 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Cardiff
1874/75 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Greenock
1875/76 - Wellington/Peru
1876/78 - Adelaide/intermediate ports/Huanillos
1878/80 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Corinto, Nicaragua
According to the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, Inc. fact sheet, this voyage of the Herschel originated in Hamburg. Sequence 77/6 -- see http://www.saghs.org.au/ships/shipsH.htm
On On 1 June 1891 the HERSCHEL was sold to Hartvigsen, of Arendal, Norway. There is no record of her final fate.
Please see: http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/com-ed.htm#edithbyrne1856
GRG35/48 – Assisted Passage – Consignment/Sub-series 1, Unit 22; Volume 22 1877 – Adolph Wyser through Elsie Wyser. |
 | Birth record for Bertha Fanny Wyser (15 Mar 1880) and Bruno Wyser (11 Apr 1882)
Birth records published by the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1997, page 3377. Bertha Fanny Wyser = book 234, page 456; Bruno Wyser = book 278, page 217. |
| Histories |
 | S.S. Arawa - Built for Shaw, Saville & Albion in 1884
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| Family ID |
F11 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
20 Sep 2009 |
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| Sources |
- [S5034] State Records of South Australia, 1877, Series GRG35/48, Volume 22.
- [S4960] Sands Directories: Sydney and NSW Australia, 1884, Page 779 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4960] Sands Directories: Sydney and NSW Australia, 1886, Page 802 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4960] Sands Directories: Sydney and NSW Australia, 1888, Page 837 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4960] Sands Directories: Sydney and NSW Australia, 1889, Page 894 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4960] Sands Directories: Sydney and NSW Australia, 1890, Page 972 (Reliability: 3).
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