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Note: * Maria was born on the 11 /05/1880 at Highfields, Queensland to Joseph Polzin and Emilie Panzram. She was the 5th of 7 children the couple had. * Maria married Adolf Otto on 31/08/1898 at the Highfields Lutheran Church in Queensland. they had 9 children:- 1. Ella Maria born 19/09/1899 at Highfields. She married her step-father's brother Wilhelm (Bill) Kuhl. Ella died on the 8/12/1976 and was buried on the 10/12/1976 at the Geham/Cabarlah cemetery. 2. Wilhelm (William) born on 15/11/1900 at Highfields. He married May Brown on 18/05/1932. He was buried on the 19/03/1983 at the Crows Nest Lawn cemetery. 3. Marie (Mary) Anna born on 23/08/1902 at Highfields. She married Heinrich Christian Dioth on 30/09/1925. 4. Alfred Louis born on 11/l12/1903 at Highfields. He married Evelyn Mary Lowein on 20/07/1927. He died on the 1/01/1960. 5. Dorothea born in 1905 at Highfields. She died on the 23/05/1911 and was buried on the 25/05/1911. Dorothea died from burns she received when her nightdress caught fire. 6. Ada Angelina born 10/02/1907 at Highfields. She married John Henry Brown on 6/07/1927 in Yarraman, Queensland. She died on 27/05/1997 at Kingaroy, Queensland and is buried at Yarraman cemetery. 7. Lenhardt born 26/10/1908 at Highfields. He married Florence Pauline Gillies on 10/02/1932. He died in August 1998 and is buried at the Wondai cemetery. 8. Ernest Frederik born 22/12/1911 at Highfields. He married Maria (Mary/Dolly) Ann Gillies on 2/11/1938. He died on 26/05/1998 in Toowoomba, Queensland. 9. Stanley born in 29/06/1913 at Highfields. He married Lauren Bertha Louise Polzin on 10/05/1939 in Douglas, Queensland. Maria also had two children to her second husband. 10. Reginald. 11. Jack. Maria married Johann (John) William Kuhl . Maria'a family disapproved of the marriage and they left Highfields to live at Bum Bum Creek. * Maria trained trotting horses and owned land at Brigalow, Queensland as well as other places to spell the horses. * Maria used to give her grandshildren a "treat" of bread soaked in tea. * Maria died in August 1946 and was buried on 14/08/146 at the Geham/Cabarlah cemetery. John Kuhl was buried on the 15 June 1946 also at the Geham/Cabarlah cemetery. Has notes.
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