Dr Schulzen was the last Dr to see Patrick O'Neill before he died in 1874.
Dr Ludwig Wilhelm Schulzen (known as William) was born in Bremen, Germany c1820, according to his naturalization papers which can be viewed on the NAA site.
He looks to have first arrived in South Australia in c1847 and was a resident of Guichen Bay on the Eastern coast (probably now a town called Robe) when he was naturalized in 1851.
A google search indicates that he was an active botanist between the periods 1840-1850.
He looks to have moved to Victoria to the goldfields and was first registered as a Doctor in Victoria in 1856. His move was prompted by the South Australian government reducing the salaries of medical practitioners. They would never get away with that in today's times! There is more detail on where he was living in a great resource from the Medical Pioneers Site sent to me by the wonderful researcher Marg Morters.
The next trace of him is when he married Louisa Newsham (nee Singleton) in Patricks Plains NSW in 1866.
Patricks Plains was the original name for Singleton. Singleton was named after Benjamin Singleton, the first settler of the place. Benjamin, coincidentally, was Louisa's father.
Louisa, who was born in Patricks Plains on the 28th of September 1827, married William Newsham in 1850. They had a child, Claude in 1852 who died as an infant in 1855. The NSW BDM index shows that another child Claude was born in 1861, but I'm not so sure of that reference.
I'm not sure what happened to William Newsham as I can find no obvious death reference.
In the 1872 Greville's Directory, Dr Schulzen is shown as having rooms in King St, Clarence Town (more thanks to Marg for that reference).
Louisa died in 1908 in Singleton, whereas Dr Ludwig died in Greta in 1881.
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