How Carolina Wilhelmina KRANTZ came to be in South Africa

In 1858, a peasant farmer from Werbelow, Prussia, his wife, and their four children, came to Braunschweig, South Africa on board the ship 'Wilhelmsburg'. One of these children was our Carolina Wilhelmine KRANTZ (SCHIEDER/SCHAEFER).
Find the passenger list here.

Manifest of the Wilhelmsburg page 1 - KRANTZ family lines 11-15

Carl Johann Joachim Frederich KRANZ, 42, his wife Wilhelmina Frederike Marie Caroline KRANZ (nee Zernke), 44, and their four children:

Child 1: (age 12)
Caroline (Albertine) Wilhelmine KRANZ
born: 9.1.1846
baptised: 18.1.1846
Werbelow, Trebenow, Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Germany (Prussia)

Child 2: (age 9)
Auguste Wilhelmine Ernestine KRANZ
born: 26.12.1848
baptised: 7.1.1849

Child 3: (age 7)
Carl Wilhelm Friedrich KRANZ
born: 9.12.1851
baptised: 17.12.1851

Child 4: (age 4)
August Friedrich Wilhelm KRANZ
born: 29.6.1854
baptised: 9.7.1854

Some shipping detail of The Wilhelmsburg:

Left Hamburg on 19 October 1858;
Arrived at East London on 13 January 1859;
64 children and one adult died en route.
Ship's captain: Captain C.H. Müller
Ship's doctor: Dr Carl Paul (26), Weimar

Eventually of course, Caroline Wilhelmina died - on 10.3.1918 age 73 in Joubert Street, Bethulie. Three months later, her second husband Michael SCHAEFER also died, age 83 - on 9.6.1918 in his son-in-law's house, Bethulie.

They are buried in the Bethulie Main cemetery: