The sea journey shaped their family in more ways than one with the death of Catharina and the birth of Agneta en route, before being quarantined for three weeks on arrival and then disembarking to anti-immigrant demonstrations in Brisbane. Little wonder that they soon left for Maryborough where little Agneta was the first to be buried in Australian soil.
Nevertheless, the family persisted. After farming at Gayndah, they moved on to the booming mining community of Mt Perry (Tenningering). It would be 1874 before the second group of immigrants rejoined the rest of the family (sailing on the Herschel). They then set about establishing the Australian Linde dynasty - including swapping germanic given names for local versions by Joachim David (John), Johannes Joachim (John Jr), Johannes (Ernest), and Claus (Henry).
When the mining bug lured family members on to the new fields at Mount Morgan, they were established landholders and small business operators - an outcome that could not have imagined back in 1860's Europe.