Whitehorse City Council publicity pamphlet giving the history of the cottage and the Schwerkolt family. Includes the farm in Separation Street, Northcote. In Mitcham the farm was a 'mixed' one with fruit trees, vines, dairying, poultry, bee hives, wine making and a stone quarry. Includes details of the museum, coloured photographs and locality and site plans.jackschowsky, mary elizabeth, schwerkolt, johann august, richter, paulina, oppel, maria catherina wilhelmine, deep creek road, mitcham, city of whitehorse, nunawading and district historical society inc, city of nunawading, delacombe, rohan (sir), schwerkolt cottage

Page listing of the Schwerkolt family tree.non-fictionLineage of Johann August Schwerkoltschwerkolt johann august, schwerkolt emil august paul, schwerkolt louis, schwerkolt augustus, schwerkolt albert william, schwerkolt louis 2, schwerkolt augusta paulina, schwerkolt john william, schwerkolt richard reinhold, schwerkolt carl benno, schwerkolt bertha maria, schwerkolt johann theodor, schwerkolt mary elizabeth, schwerkolt louis ernest, schwerkolt arthur, schwerkolt charles clarence victor, schwerkolt peggy, schwerkolt wilhelmina ann, schwerkolt charles lionel, schwerkolt rosalie, kruse maria catherine wilhelmina, luby jane, both francesca, sandilands john, tanner william, harris myra victoria naomi, both wilhelmina, goodwin abigail, jackschowsky august emil, jack walter

Emil Jackschowsky was born in Insterburg (Prussia then Germany now Russia). He met Mary Schwerkolt aboard the 'Seydlitz' on its way to Australia. He was working as a ships steward. They married in Pittsburg in U.S.A in 1912. While visiting family in Germany he was conscripted. His son Walter was born in 1919. Emil became an American citizen in 1928. He died from heart disease in 1954 at the age of 71.sepia photograph with a framed picture of a man seated on an ornamental chair and dressed in a coat and bow tie.jackschowsky emil, insterrberg

Mary Jack is the child of August Schwerkolt and his second wife Wilhelmina (Kruse) Wilhelmina had previously been married to Franz Both and Johannes Oppel.Black and white photograph of Mary Jack (Jackschowsky) nee Schwerkolt. Photo taken outside. Dressed in overcoat with hat. Floral sprayjack mary, schwerkolt family