Historical information

HEHR Jacob and Magdalena Christian Hehr and his wife Dorothea and several children arrived in Australia from Wurtemburg, Germany in 1856. The Hehr's were living in Brunswick in 1860 when Christian was naturalised but they purchased 76 acres at Wollert in 1866 and established a dairy farm.
On Christian's death in 1892 aged 85, the property passed to a son Jacob. here Jacob and his wife Magdalena raised a family of seven boys. Walter, the youngest died of influenza in 1904 aged six, however the other boys all grew up to either farm at Pine Park, as the property became
known, or purchase dairy farms nearby.
Two sons, Henry and Ernie, were particularly interested in the breeding of Clydesdale horses and for many years were very successful in their classes at the Whittlesea Show.
Hehr's Pine Park farm with its bluestone farmhouse, milking shed, stables and dry-stone walls still survives. It is considered to be historically significant on a regional level and architecturally significant on a State level for the remarkable intactness of the dairy and horse breeding structures.
(By John Waghorn, published WHS Newsletter Number 25, May 2017)

Physical description

White memorial card with gold lettering, unmounted, original.

Inscriptions & markings

On front: Walter Edward Hehr. Dearly-loved youngest Son of Magdalena and the late Jacob Hehr. Who died May 16, 1904 Aged 6 years 4 months.
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