Wuchatsch family burials
Westgarthtown Lutheran Cemetery
Given names |
Birth |
Death |
|
| [ | John | 08.04.1802 Särka, Saxony | 29.09.1884 aged 82 |
| Magdalena (née Bartsch) | 02.07.1825 Särka, Saxony | 27.09.1903 aged 78 | |
| Emma | 19.10.1857 | 14.04.1898 aged 40 | |
| Christina | 23.07.1862 | 19.03.1935 aged 72 | |
| [ | Charles | 16.01.1860 | 05.07.1946 aged 86 |
| Elizabeth Martha (née Proposch) | 01.02.1876 | 01.09.1905 aged 29 | |
| [ | Norman Charles | 21.07.1902 | 29.11.1978 aged 76 |
| Muriel Jean (née Dunn) | 20.03.1918 | 23.12.2007 aged 89 | |
| [ | Johann | 07.10.1838 Särka, Saxony | 30.09.1892 aged 53 |
| Johanna (née Graff) | 02.02.1841 | 15.08.1923 aged 82 | |
| Carl Peter | 26.09.1871 | 11.11.1872 aged 13 months | |
| Adolph Charles | 24.09.1877 | 04.03.1878 aged 5 months | |
| Ernst Adolph | 13.09.1884 | 12.11.1889 aged 5 | |
| Henry John | 01.11.1866 | 10.01.1898 aged 31 | |
| Carl Herman | 05.04.1875 | 18.10.1935 aged 60 | |
| [ | Joseph David | 17.11.1885 | 08.12.1968 aged 83 |
| Marion Walker (née Cook) | 06.06.1882 | 05.01.1968 aged 85 | |
| [ | William Albert | 28.01.1868 | 29.08.1948 aged 80 |
| Emma Christiane (née Maltzahn) | 18.09.1867 | 27.05.1957 aged 89 | |
| Margaret Gaye (née Lohse) | 07.08.1943 | 23.04.2014 aged 70 |
Additional information
Heinrich Johann (Henry) Wuchatsch (1866 – 1898)
Henry, the eldest child of Johann and Johanna Wuchatsch (née Graff) of Epping, died suddenly aged 31. Family legend has it he collapsed suddenly at home while shelling peas. A post mortem examination by Dr Wilkinson of Preston gave the cause of his death as 'Haemorrhage into pleura from lung'. Pleura is the membrane enclosing the lung, including the visceral pleura and the parietal pleura which are separated by a small amount of fluid. Henry was unmarried.
Henry's headstone includes the inscription:
On the resurrection morning, soul and body meets again:
No more sorrow, no more weeping, no more pain.
Ernst Adolph Wuchatsch (1884 – 1889)
Adolph was the ninth child of Johann and Johanna Wuchatsch. He drowned in a waterhole on his parents' farm at Epping on 12 November 1889 while playing with a younger brother, who stated at the inquest:
'My brother and I were playing near the waterhole - he was trying to catch a frog when he fell in.'
Emilia Emma Henrietta Wuchatsch (1857 – 1898)
Emma, who was born at Westgarthtown and lived on her parents' Johann and Magdalene Wuchatsch's farm there, was 40 years old when she tripped onto a set of harrows in long grass while walking across paddocks one night with eggs for her sister Johanna Seeber, who lived in High Street, opposite today's Lalor railway station. Her death certificate lists the cause of death as 'heart disease, injury to heart — ulcerative endocarditis — duration of last illness six weeks.'
Emma's obituary in the Lutheran monthly journal Der Australische Christenbote recorded:
'She died as a result of an accident…she bore her heavy suffering for several weeks with great patience, at the same time borne up powerfully by the perceptible nearness of her saviour and now her heartfelt wish to be at home with him is fulfilled.'
Emma was buried at Westgarthtown on 16 April 1898 in the iron fenced family grave which now contains her parents and younger brother Charles. She never married.
Images
John Wuchatsch's headstone
Ernst Adolph Wuchatsch memorial card