Month: May 2020

I have news to share regarding one of the Cecilia Black stories! The relative belongs to Cecelia Bleck (Part 2) the poor one that was murdered. 

I received an email from Jill, a family member of Cecilia Bleck – Cecilia is her 3rd great aunt on her maternal grandfather’s side.  

She shared with me that the Borchert family emigrated from Schleswig Holstein Prussia on the migrant ship the “La Rochelle”. Culturally they were Danish not German hence their emigration after the Prussian war. 

Jill, like me became facinated by Cecilia’s life and went hunting newspaper articles and news stories to get more of the tale.

Jill feels that Cecilia and August married in August of 1877 and had a son Wilhelm whom died the same year, 

She found that Cecilia was 26 when she died, leaving 3 children behind. We can only find details of two of the children – that being Anna Kathrina Sophia Bleck who was born in 1881 and died in 1882 and there could be a son called Albert. Is Wilhelm being counted as the third child or is there another child still to be found?

Jill feels that following the tragic death of Anna, Cecilia may have moved from the family home into a flat in Brisbane. 

Had she lived with August (her husband) in Queanbeyan prior to fleeing to Brisbane?

Cecilia’s parents lived in Meringandan in Queensland, was she moving closer to them?

Cecilia was 4-5 months pregnant at the time of her murder in 1883, who was the father to that baby? Her husband or someone else?

Her death remains a cold case 🙁 Her lifeless body was dumped on the banks of the Brisbane River.