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My fiance has started doing his family tree + would like a little help with a few names he has found ..... his family line originated in Holland but some came from the UK ...... this is what he found + would be very much appreciated if any1 could point him in the right direction ........ plz send any info/msgs to my msg box so I can foward them to him Thanks in advance :) :) Title The Ploog family Stmnt.Resp. by Lorna Merle Bell, nee Ploog Authors Bell, Lorna Merle Ploog, 1927- (Main Author) Notes Microreproduction of original published: Craigie, W.A. : L.M. Bell, 1987. vi [i.e. ix], 109 p. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography: p. 97. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herman Jens August Ploog (1836-1895) was the seventh of the twelve children of Heinrich Ploog (1801-1859) and Sophie Margrethe Jessen, who had married in 1824 (Heinrich worked as a customs officer in Hamburg, Germany). As the conflict over Schleswig-Holstein developed between Denmark and Germany, Herman was fearful of being called upon for military service, and he decided to immigrate to Australia. He arrived at Port Phillip in what later became Victoria in 1850, when he was only 14 years old. He wrote to persuade other family members to join him, and three sisters, a brother in law, and one nephew immigrated to Australia as well. He wemt to Ballarat, Victoria in 1853, when the gold rush occurred there, and later to Melbourne, Victoria, where he married Mary Ann Green in 1863. Descendants and relatives of Herman, his sisters, brother-in-law and nephew lived in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in Holstein, as well as the history of its change from Danish to German control.