Otto Edwin Wiser

1875 -

• Name	Otto Edwin Wiser
  Birth	6 Oct 1875	Sao Paolo, Brazil
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	12 Jan 1877	Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia   [1]
  	Arrived Port Adelaide as an infant with his parents and siblings (as Otto Wyser); sailed 1876.
  Record ID Number	MH:I29
  Person ID	I29	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2003

  
  

  Father	Bruno Albert Wiser,   b. 6 Nov 1841, Solothurn, Switzerland d. 7 Dec 1895, San Francisco, California (Age 54 years)
  Mother	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   [2]
  Marriage Witnesses	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Louis Frey and Leo Tugginer
  Minister	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Pastor Hoppe
  Notes	WHEN BRUNO AND ELISE MARRIED (resolved 2 Nov 2026). The Montevideo church registers (media 1509, 520, 521) are the definitive record: Bruno Wyser and Elise Schoenhals married at the German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, on 3 Feb 1869. Their daughter Ida Alice had been born there on 30 Oct 1867, "unehelich" (out of wedlock), and was baptised on the same day as the wedding, which made her legitimate. Bruno's brother Otto Wyser was one of her godparents, and she shares her name with Bruno's sister Ida Rosalia (INFERENCE that she was named for her). Fifteen years later, in Sydney, Bruno declared on Fanny's birth certificate of 29 Sep 1884 (media 78) that they had married on 16 October 1866 in South America. INFERENCE: a respectable earlier date, which put the wedding before Ida's birth. The same certificate claims 11 earlier children (2 boys and 3 girls living, 3 boys and 3 girls dead). TNG has 9 children before Fanny, 3 of them dead by 1884. The two missing children, if they existed, may have been born and died between Ida (1867) and Maria (Dec 1871) in Uruguay, but nothing has been found. Not changed. Ages: the marriage register gives Bruno as 27 (TNG born 6 Nov 1841, which fits) and Elise as 25 (TNG born 20 Mar 1841, which would make her 27). Not changed. Ida went on to repeat the pattern: her own daughter Amy Winifred "Lena" (born 1887) was illegitimate and was raised as Bruno and Elise's child.
  Documents » Slide Show		Bruno Wyser's Obituary - December 8 1895
  		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 Hoppe Witnesses: Louis Frey and Leo Tugginer German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans. [2 Nov 2026: names corrected against the full register pages in media 1509: Hoppe, Frey, Tugginer, Funke.]
  		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. FROM THE MANIFEST ITSELF (re-read Oct 2026): Bruno Wyser 35 (married), Elise 32, Ida 9, Marie 4, Emilie 3, Adolph 2 and Otto under 1 (3/4). Summary of the voyage: 218 adults, children 1-12 and 16 infants embarked, 305 souls in all; 4 births and 5 deaths of children on the voyage; 304 landed alive. The immigration agent's certificate is dated 29 Jan 1877. DATES: embarked Hamburg 26 Sep 1876; anchored Port Adelaide 12 Jan 1877; immigrants landed 23 Jan 1877. The voyage, the passengers' petition against Captain Kammann (Bruno Wyser was the eighth signatory) and the commission of enquiry are told in "Rich Man, Poor Man" (media 1377).
  		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.
  		Bruno Wyser and Elise Schoenhals - marriage, and Ida Alice Wyser - baptism - German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, 3 Feb 1869 (full register pages, with the Estudio Batres Franzese cover letter of 6 Nov 2008) Seven pages, obtained for Craig by Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese, Buenos Aires (cover letter 6 Nov 2008), from the registers of the Congregacion Evangelica Alemana (German Evangelical Church), Montevideo. MARRIAGE REGISTER 1869 ("Aufgebotene und Getraute", pp. 105-106), entry 3: Bruno Wyser of Solothurn, Switzerland, Catholic; father Zeughausverwalter (arsenal administrator) in Solothurn; aged 27; parents' consent given by letter. Bride Elise Schoenhals of Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse; father Johannes Schoenhals, Pfarrer (pastor) in Simmersbach; aged 25. Married on the third of February 1869 (3.2.1869) by Pastor Hoppe. Witnesses: 1. Louis Frey, 2. Leo Tugginer. BAPTISM REGISTER ("Geborene und Getaufte", entries for 1868-69), no. 51/3: Ida Alice, born 30 Oct 1867 at 6 in the evening, UNEHELICH (born out of wedlock); father Bruno Wyser, Landwirth (farmer), of Solothurn, Switzerland; mother Elise, born Schoenhals, of Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse; parents living in Montevideo; baptised 3 February [1869] by Pastor Hoppe. Godparents: 1. Eugen Funke (in Vertretung Louis Frey), 2. Otto Wyser (in Vertretung Leo Tugginer), 3. Alice Cartier (in Vertretung Elise Wyser, born Schoenhals). The cover letter dates the marriage 4 Feb 1869, but the register itself says 3 February, the same day as Ida's baptism. Readings corrected 2 Nov 2026 against the earlier translation on media 520-521: the pastor was Hoppe (not Hopper), the witnesses Louis Frey (not Freyo) and Leo Tugginer (not Fugginer; Tugginer is an old Solothurn family name).
  Histories		S.S. Arawa - Built for Shaw, Saville & Albion in 1884 An 11,570-ton emigrant steamer of Shaw, Savill & Albion. Her career from the Dumbarton yard in 1884 to her torpedoing off Cyrenaica in 1915, with a photograph of the ship.
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  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."

  
  

• Sources

  [S5004] Ancestry.com, 12 Jan 1877, South Australia, Australia, Incoming and Outgoing Passenger Lists, 1845-1940 (Reliability: 2). Otto Wyser, born about 1876, arrived Port Adelaide 12 Jan 1877 with parents and siblings. [S4968] Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese, Marriage register 1869, German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, pp. 105-106, entry 3 (media 1509) (Reliability: 3).