Gottlieb Andreas Schuetze was born 19 June 1817 in Cochstedt, Germany.

He married Maria Dorothea Roediger in Cochstedt near Magdeburg some years prior to emigrating to Australia. Maria was born 14 March 1818 in Hackpfüffel, municipality of Goldene Aue, Sachsen-Anhalt, Bundesrepublik, Deutschland.

They left Hamburg and journeyed to Australia aboard the “Wilhelmina Maria” with Captain Roysen at the helm.

With them on the voyage from Germany were sons Gottlieb Wilhelm, Carl Friedrich and Friedrich Eduard.

They touched at Bahie on 12 July and arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia on 30 August 1849.

Daughters Mona Dorothea, Maria Caroline and Rosalia Louise, and another son - Adolph Theodor - were born in South Australia.

Gottlieb was a carpenter (as shown on Naturalisation information), and Publican and the family lived at Hahndorf and Blumberg (now Birdwood) in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. They were of Lutheran religion.

Gottlieb died 3 May 1871 at the age of 53 years and is buried in the Church of the Holy Cross Cemetery, Birdwood (formerly known as Blumberg), South Australia.

His wife Maria, who surviving her husband by 23 years and following a move to Mannum where she resided with one of her sons (Carl, Friedrich or Gottlieb) and his family, lived to the age of 76 years.

She died 4 January 1894 at Mannum and is buried in the Mannum, South Australia cemetery. No headstone has been located.