Foreign Land holdings in the German Marshall Islands by Dirk HR Spennemann Property on Kwajalein

?? wato Kwajalein Island, Kwajalein

Size of parcel of land: 9.3 ar.

Original acquisition in: 1904

Ownership of property in 1913: Jaluit Gesellschaft

Grundbuch Entry No.: 43 (1913); 55 (1904)

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{1}"Verzeichnis der Grundstücke die im Eigentum von Nichteingeborenen sind." (List of real estate owned by non-natives"). Dated: Jaluit, 24 August 1913. Signed: Scharnbourg (?) for Imperial German Stationchief". German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.

{31} Grundbuch von den Marshallinseln und Nauru. Artikel 1. Eigenthümer: Die Jaluit Gesellschaft zu Hamburg.Signed by Imperial Commissar Domnick, 1 September 1904. Print out of microfilmed document of unknown provenance, possibly from the T.T.P.I. Archives, Kept on file Alele National Archives, Majuro, RMI. Original most likely from German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.

??? wato, ??? Island, Kwajalein

Size of parcel of land: unknown.

Original acquisition in: unknown to A.Crawford & Co.;Like all other stations of that company, the property was not purchased but leased {12} ;

Ownership of property in 1913: local

Grundbuch Entry No.: no entry

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{11} Grundbuch von den Marshallinseln und Nauru. Artikel 27. Eigenthümer: Pflanzer Otto Bock in Kili.Print out of microfilmed document of unknown provenance, possibly from the T.T.P.I. Archives, Kept on file Alele National Archives, Majuro, RMI. Original most likely from German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.

{12} Letter E.M.Morgan, Crawford& Co. to F.L. Sonnenschein, Kaiserlicher Kommandant, Jaluit, dated 18 July 1888. Contained in Records of the German ForeignOffice, Series IX Reichskolonialamt File No. No. 2296, Land und Grundstückserwerbungen auf den Marschallinseln. Allgemeines 1887-1906. National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Microfilm No. G 8491.

??? wato, ??? Island, Kwajalein

Size of parcel of land: unknown.

Original acquisition in: unknown by unknown; A map published in 1879 by Friedrichsen shows that there was a trading station on the atoll. It is likely that the land had been leased.

Ownership of property in 1913: local

Grundbuch Entry No.: no entry

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Friedrichsen, I. 1879, Karte der Marshall Inseln. Auf der Basis der englischen Admiralitätskarte No. 983 nach den von J.Kubary auf Ebon eingezogenen Erkundigungen und nach Angaben des Capitän Mellen.Hamburg:Friedrichsen & Co.