Fischer Family History
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Click here to view photos of the Fischer family and their Gawler residence.
Emil Julius Fischer, his wife nee Louise Anna Maria Temme and their children moved to Gawler from Adelaide in about 1925. They purchased two acres of land on Adelaide Road, just across from the southern end of the racecourse,[1] and had their home built by C Duldig. The bungalow still stands, its contemporary address is 524 Main North Road, Evanston Park.
Initially, Emil worked as a warehouse manager at the Gawler South warehouse (probably located at 10 Fifteenth Street) of Hugo Fischer Ltd, for his brother Hugo Fischer, who manufactured leather good in Western Australia. Later, in the 1930s, Emil ran his own grocery store in Murray Street, next to the old post office.
The family sold their Gawler home in 1951[1] and moved back to Adelaide.
Their son Gerhard Fischer (1918-2003), who went on to become a Lutheran Pastor, wrote down his memoirs in 2002, aged 83; the memoirs cover the family's time in Gawler in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, including Gerhard's time at the local schools.
Gerhard's Memoirs "Fishy Tales: A Fischer History" - September 2002
Memories from the past keep coming back to me for these never-to-be-completely-recorded memoirs, so, day by day:
Higgledy, piggledy, my old black pen,
Will jot down things from yore and from yen;
Some very important and others not so,
But all sure did happen as these lines will show!
Introduction by Gerhard's son Tim Fischer - December 2002
"In recent years my father has become more involved in the past, as experienced by many of us as we age. I think there have been several catalysts for these memoirs. My mother has always kept meticulous diaries of their travels – even an interstate car trip would involve a log of times, distances and costs. Their trips to Germany over the years have also spurred a quest for learning more about the Fischer ancestry and my father and Gertrud Fischer had done some preparatory work towards a Fischer Family Book.
Their efforts were overtaken with the publishing of the book about his side of the descendants of Paul Gerhard Eusebius Fischer in Australia by Clem Fischer from Perth in the 1980’s and the supplementary part of the family tree which included our branch. Therefore, much of the material relating to the German origins which appeared in Clem Fischer’s books were already known to my father, but some extra information was held by him and more information has been obtained since. My father was on the committee which organised a very successful Temme reunion in 1986 and subsequent to this, for some years he was active on the archives committee of Bethlehem Lutheran Church. So, if anyone should realise the importance of recorded history, it should be him.
These memoirs have been transcribed by me, from his handwritten notes, some of which date back many years. Where possible, I have copied his notes directly but was given free hand by him to set this out however I thought most appropriate, interesting and readable. Editorial comment has been added (along with metric equivalents) in italics."
Click here to read "Fishy Tales: A Fischer History" - by Gerhard Fischer (2002)
Fischer Family Birth, Death & Marriage Information
FISCHER, Emil Julius
b. 1877, SA, son of Edmond Fischer and nee Bertha Schaedel ('Julius Emil FISCHER', Reg. Adelaide 182/102)
m. 1906 'Louise Anna Maria TEMME', SA (Reg. Adelaide 229/77)
d. 1953, SA (Reg. Adelaide 803/5745)
Children of Emil Fischer and nee Louise Temme
FISCHER Edmund Wilhelm (1907-)
FISCHER Roland Friedrich (1910-)
FISCHER Irma Louise (1911-)
FISCHER Carl Emil (1912-)
FISCHER Hugo Gunther (1914-)
FISCHER Gerhard Edwin (1918-2003)
- m. 1943 Rita Edna Doris MEYER
- d. Jan 2003, aged 84
FISCHER Herbert Oswald (1921-)
FISCHER Wilma Ruth (1924-)
FISCHER Theodor/Theodore (1928 – died aged 8 hours, buried Willaston Cemetery, plot 18 F 4)
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