Kayser, Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand (Ferd)   (1833 - 1919)

Born in Clausthal, Germany, 1833; died at St Kilda, Victoria, on 12 October 1919, aged 86.

He was the third son of mining engineer Georg (or George) Andreas Kayser.

He is listed as a passenger aboard STEINWARDER, which departed Hamburg, Germany, on 31 May 1853 and arrived at Port Adelaide, SA, on 16 Sept 1853.
On the 8 January 1854 he arrived in Victoria, aboard the HAVELAH.
In the following year, he joined the gold rush in Victoria.
In 1863, he became manager of a gold mine in Sandhurst, now Bendigo.

He received his Citizenship/naturalization in Sandhurst, probably on 16 April 1861.

The Mount Bischoff tin deposit was discovered in 1873. He managed this famously rich Mount Bischoff tin mine from 1875 to 1907.

Confounding the doubters, Kayser built the township of Waratah and a railway to the coast, allowing the mine to prosper, making around £1,250,000 for its investors.

Under Kayser's management Mount Bischoff became one of Australia's most profitable base metal mines. Launceston's grand Victorian-era buildings testify to his drive.

In 1908 he and his wife returned to Victoria and had a home 'Willesden' in East St Kilda, where he died in 1919.

Source: Extracted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferd_Kayser
https://www.utas.edu.au/tasmanian-companion/biogs/E000543b.htm
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/kayser/49/
Portrait Photo: None - seeking good portrait

Collecting localities for 'Kayser, H.W.F.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 61 specimens