Hello Norm,
With regards to your Büsing ancestors from Rostock the LDS (Mormons) have filmed most of the church records you need.
Films can be ordered from your nearest Mormon family history library, there are no consolidated indexes to any BDMs in Germany.
Each parish was responsible for its own records until Germany became unified in 1871. After unification civil records are recorded by district.
A large city like Rostock will come under several districts, each responsible for their own records, it is necessary to know exactly where the
event you are looking for took place.
Civil records began in Mecklenburg in 1876. Church records are still kept as well as civil records after 1876. See the dates below
of church records that have been filmed for each parish.
for further details go to www.familysearch.org
click on library and then click on library catalog, then do a place search.
Type Rostock in the top box and Germany in the lower box and several headings will appear.
Click on Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Rostock it will take you some time to explore all the films available.
examples below:
Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Rostock - Church records
Kirchenbuch, 1657-1910 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Petri Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1662-1933 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Nikolai Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1668-1816 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Georg Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1671-1875 / Evangelische Kirche Warnemünde (Rostock)
Kirchenbuch, 1679-1881 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Jacobi Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1686-1823 / Evangelische Kirche Heilige Geist Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1687-1813 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Catharina Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1698-1892 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Marien Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1711-1901 / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Johannis Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1758-1933 / Evangelische Kirche. Kloster zum Heiligen Kreuz Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1810-1913 / Evangelische Kirche. Militärgemeinde Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
Kirchenbuch, 1679-1881
Evangelische Kirche Sankt Jacobi Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) (Main Author)
Mikrofilme aufgenommen von Manuskripten in Goslar, und Stadtarchiv Rostock.
Parish register of baptisms, marriages, deaths and confirmations for Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. Text in German.
8 Mikrofilmrollen ; 35 mm.
Taufen 1745-1784 Taufen 1679-1744 Tote 1695-1793 Heiraten 1699-1793 - FHL INTL Film [ 1676317 ]
Taufen 1785-1816 - FHL INTL Film [ 69457 ]
Taufen 1817-1843 - FHL INTL Film [ 69458 ]
Taufen 1844-1862 - FHL INTL Film [ 69459 ]
Heiraten 1794-1850 Tote 1794-1850 Tote 1852-1875 (auf See) - FHL INTL Film [ 69460 ]
Heiraten 1851-1867 Tote 1851-1867 Konfirm. 1816-1865 - FHL INTL Film [ 69461 ]
Taufen 1863-1875 Heiraten 1868-1875 - FHL INTL Film [ 69462 ]
Taufen 1876-1878 Heiraten 1876-1881 Tote 1868-1879 Konfirm. 1866-1880 - FHL INTL Film [ 69463 ]
St.-Johannis-Kirche (St John's church) which lies in the green parkland to the south-west of the City of Rostock, in the Barnstorfer Wald. The church was built in 1950 from the stones of old St.-Jakobi-Kirche (church of St James), which was destroyed during the War and torn down at the behest of the Communist authorities. The Lutheran Parish of St. Johannis came into being only after the War, and since the new church was built this has been its home. From 1960 onwards the Kirchenmusikdirektor (Director of Music) Prof. Hartwig Eschenburg worked in a most commendable manner to build up the four choirs of the St.-Johannis-Kirche.
Kirchenbuch, 1698-1892
Evangelische Kirche Sankt Marien Rostock (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) (Main Author)
Mikrofilme aufgenommen von Manuskripten in Goslar, Berlin, und Rostock.
Parish register of baptisms, marriages, deaths, confirmations and indexes for Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany.
7 Mikrofilmrollen ; 35 mm.
Taufen 1747-1774 Taufen 1698-1747 Heiraten 1722-1774 Tote 1722-1774 - FHL INTL Film [ 1676318 ]
Taufen 1774-1833 - FHL INTL Film [ 69466 ]
Taufen 1834-1870 - FHL INTL Film [ 69467 ]
Heiraten 1774-1860 Tote 1774-1852 - FHL INTL Film [ 69468 ]
Tote 1853-1869 Konfirm. 1816-1875 - FHL INTL Film [ 69469 ]
Taufen, Konf., Heiraten, Tote 1871-1875 Taufen 1876-1887 Geburten 1876-1877 (ungetaufte) Heiraten 1876-1880 Tote 1870-1892 - FHL INTL Film [ 69470 ]
Tauf-, Heirats-, Toten-Index 1817-1875 (l. S., dann r. S. rückw.) - FHL INTL Film [ 1418042 ]
I also have the CD of Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia 1850-1879. These records are transcribed from the original Hamburg Departure Lists
by Eric & Rosemary Kopittke, both the Büsing families are recorded, one family per the "Freideburg" in 1871 to Brisbane, the other per the
"Friedeburg" in 1972 to New Zealand. All these passenger lists have also been filmed by the LDS. see websites below.
You can also see from the above Parish Church records that the originals registers were held in different archives at the time of filming, perhaps
you could contact their archives, however fees apply. I doubt if any of the above records are online. You may not realise but it costs a lot of money to
preserve and house all these primary records in archives worldwide.
I do not quite understand your previous e-mail "you did not think any ships sailed direct from Hamburg to Australia or New Zealand" !!
Hundreds of ships sailed to Australia from Bremen and Hamburg you can check this on the Internet, the Bremen passenger lists were destroyed
see http://www.passagierlisten.de/ Unfortunately, all lists from 1875 - 1908 older than 3 years were destroyed due to lack of space in the
Bremen Archives.
Hamburg information http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/hamburg.html this site will give you all the information about Hamburg Departure Lists
both Direct voyages to Australia and Indirect voyages via British ports Indexes 1850-1934. If you subscribe to Ancestry you can look at them online.
You also thought: "the brother that went to Queensland from Germany in 1871 a year earlier sailed on the same ship.
I bet they thought they were going to the same place"
Both brothers would have known their exact destinations, emigration agents in Rostock would have arranged a work contract for Bernard Büsing being
a married man aged 30 yearsu to emigrate, he would have sought permission under the new regulations imposed by Bismark after the unification of Germany.
His wife Wilhelmine aged 31 years, their son Carl being only three years of age would have complied with the regulations.
By 1872 immigration agents were promoting New Zealand as a destination, the N Z government promoted a new scheme to develop the North Island.
Carl Johann Georg Büsing, his wife Johanne and their son Wilhelm and daughter Wilhelmine would have emigrated to New Zealand under the
"Vogel Scheme" The government wanted to set up public works offering employment to migrants for a variety projects.
For further information: http://us.geocities.com/somesprisonersnz/germanating/ger1.html
I hope this helps, if you send me the Christian names of your ancestors Günther and Reheir I can check several other indexes here in Australia
for their arrivals or any other details, I can also send you copies of the Kopittke article on the "Friedeburg," contact me off line.
Elizabeth