Frederick Henry Ferdinand Schilling

Photo: Zane Sinnamon

Rosewood History

Frederick Henry Ferdinand Schilling was born on the last day of December in 1882 at Gatton. His parents Friedrich Christian Schilling and Friereicke Lieppen, were from Brandenburg, Germany. He married Laura Jane née Dowrick (b.1st September 1883) in 1906. Laura’s parents Steven Dowrick and Elizabeth Jane Grieve, immigrated from Cornwall, England.

They had seven children: Cecil Frederick, Ruby Elizabeth (HAIG), Leslie Arthur, Claude Albert , Dorothy Lila, Laura Violet (TRONC) and Phyllis Maud (BULL).

Frederick Schilling was a bootmaker by trade. He worked in the employ of John Aspinall for some years in John Street, Rosewood in a shop opposite the Commercial Hotel in Rosewood. In March 1903 he took over the business and operated on his own account. He was a member of the Congregational Band of Hope and a member of the Success of Rosewood Lodge while in Rosewood and played cricket in his spare time.

Frederick left Rosewood and took his family to Gatton at the end of 1907. He was a lay preacher and deacon and superintendent at the Congregational Sunday School while he was there. The family left inl August 1920 to go and live at Annerley in Brisbane.

Frederick and Laura died in 1955 and 1970 respectively and are interred at Balmoral Cemetery.