His father was a man of considerable poetic ability on the literary staff of the Kölnische Zeitung (Cologne Gazette), but was prompted by the civil unrest of 1848–1849 to emigrate to England, and later to Melbourne, where he died on 27 December 1874.
A Register report of Kate Thayer's concert in 1882 read: — Mr. Puttmann contributed greatly to the success of the evening by his skilful rendering of Ernst's violin solo Élégie in which, by his excellent bowing and double-stopping, he proved himself to be a master of the instrument.
[6]Late December 1898 he was in a two-horse trap driven by E. W. Clarke with two others returning from the National Park, Belair to the city, when one of the horses tripped and the passengers were thrown to the ground.
Carl suffered facial bruising and a severely swollen leg where perhaps a wheel had run over him, and appeared for a time to recover, but two weeks later he died of a coronary embolism at his home on South Road, Edwardstown.
[7] The Liedertafel sang at the grave the very chorus the late musician had taught them years before – Es ist bestimmt Gottes Rath by Ernst Freiherr von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849) Püttmann married Maria Helene Loessel (died 1941) in 1866.