Uebergang

Mrs. Emma Atkinson has advised us that her sister, Mrs. Hilda Rouget, died on 18th July this year. She was born Hilda Uebergang in 1900 at East Doncaster.

Studio photograph of Hilda and Emma Uebergang, the daughters of Carl Heinrich Uebergang and Sarah Constable his wife (nee Buck) of Andersons Creek Road, East Doncaster. Hilda was born in 1900 and Emma in 1903. DP0917

Her father, Henry Uebergang was born on January 5th 1861 at Doncaster East and served his apprenticeship as a Wheelwright, Blacksmith and Coach Builder in Heidelberg at Aumann's foundry, but chose to go on the land at the age of 23.
He bought an orchard block in Andersons Creek Road in 1884 and cleared it all of thick timber. There was a stable, for his horse Punch, a wagon shed, feed room, chaff cutter, and fruit storage room. Wild deer roamed the area - and ate his first cherries.
Henry Uebergang met his wife Sarah in 1896. She rode on the last trip of the Electric Tram from Box Hill to Doncaster. They were married in 1897. Their children were, Agnes, born March 1898, Hilda May 1900, Emma July 1903 and Henry January 1911.
Mrs Emma Atkinson is the last survivor of the family. We are pleased to have Mrs. Emma Atkinson as a life member of our Society.

1984 12 DTHS Newsletter

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Emma Atkinson Remembers

Extract from a letter received from Mrs Emma Atkinson, who when Emma Uebergang, went to East Doncaster School.

"I left school in 1917 after receiving the merit certificate. The following year, I went to work for the Snell family in the newly renovated Cronin home. The school held concerts, at first in the Methodist Church Hall and later the Athenaeum Hall. At a special concert one item was the "Soap Box Derby". Ten year old Maurice Fitzgerald led his goat, harnessed up and attached to a small cart his father had built and he led the cart along the stage of the Athenaeum Hall. Beattie Beavis also took part in the Soap Box Derby. (He remembers that the climax to the concert came when Mavis Smedley flew across the audience. She was hauled on a cable from the stage to the top of the projection box while singing with her beautiful voice). In Andersons Creek Road, the next orchard was Fitzgeralds. They had a shop in Andersons Creek Road and, in the year 1896, my mother aged 19 years, was walking up there from Smedleys home to buy some sugar when she met my father. They were married the following year. "

Mrs Atkinson went on to tell more about the people who lived in the area at that time. We are fortunate to have members like Mrs Atkinson who write such interesting letters.

1990 09 DTHS Newsletter

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See also:
Carl Samuel Aumann : the family history, 1853 - 1993  - Eric Uebergang.  560 p. Diamond Creek, Vic. : Aumann Reunion Committee, 1993.