Emilie Auguste Hermine Albrecht

Emilie Auguste Hermine Albrecht (~1854–1921) was a Prussian-Australian woman who immigrated to Australia at nine years old.

Early life
Emilie Albrecht was born to Wilhelm Friedrich Albrecht and Johanne Pohl in either 1853 or 1854, most likely in Prussia. Later, Emilie's residence is noted as Warthe, Prussia (present-day Brandenburg, Germany); this was likely her residence from birth.

Emilie was likely her parents' third child and first daughter as they had a five-year-old son named Carl and a three-year-old son named Wilhelm. Emilie's parents would have two more children approximately in 1857 and 1859; a daughter named Mathilde and a son named Hermann respectively. Sometime between Hermann's birth and May 1863, Emilie's mother Johanne died.

On May 23, 1863 at nine years old, Emilie and her family left Prussia via Hamburg on the ship Beausite. They arrived in Brisbane three months later on September 5, 1863. All of her family had survived the voyage.

Family
Emilie Albrecht got married at approximately 19 years old on November 5, 1873 to August Friedrich Wilhelm Thiedeke, known as Wilhelm, at Bethania Lutheran Church in Bethania. They had their first child together 11 months later on October 24, 1874; a son named Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. Over the next 14 years they had five more children. Friedrich Wilhelm Richard was born on January 7, 1877, Carl Gustav was born on April 12, 1879, Albert Edward was born on June 4, 1881, Ida Caroline was born on May 30, 1884, and Anna Maria Amelia was born on November 7, 1888.

On January 3, 1901, Emilie's daughter Ida died at sixteen years old. 13 years later on November 6, 1914, Emilie's son Albert died at 33 years old.

Life in Australia
From 1903 to 1919, Emilie Thiedeke is listed (as Amelia Thiedeke) on the federal electoral rolls as living at Yellow-wood in Yatala (just south of Greater Brisbane).

Death
Emilie Thiedeke died on August 23, 1921 at 67 years old, likely at home in Yatala. She's buried with her husband Wilhelm at Beenleigh Cemetery (M03-UO-29). Wilhelm only survived Emilie by two days.