Cecilia Elizabeth Jenkin (1908 - 1997)

Cecilia Elizabeth Jenkin, is the 1st wife of Myer Rosenberg, my maternal 3rd cousin 2x removed. Rosenberg family tree Here

Parents: Walter Browne Jenkin (1867 - 1919) and Rose Bessie Beachey (1870 - 1940)

Born: 21 October 1908 in Perranwell, Cornwall, England

Married: Myer Rosenberg in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1930. Myer was 28 and Cecilia 22 years old. 

Myer Rosenberg and Cecilia Jenkin

Children

Their only child was born in 1931 when Myer was 29 and Cecilia 23 years old. 

• Harold Myer Rowe 1931 -

Census details

1911

Cecilia and her family are living in a 6 room house in Chycoose Street, Perranwell Station, Perranwell, Cornwall, England. Her father, Walter Browne Jenkin is age 43 and a poultry farmer and her mother, Rose Bessie Jenkin, is age 40 and a partner in the family poultry business. The children are Barry Pearce Jenkin age 11, Beatrice Winnifred Jenkin age 7, Richard Walter Jenkin age 4 and Cecilia age 2

Migration to Australia

Cecilia's parents were born in England (Cornwall and Devon) before both independently moving to  Natal sometime in the 1890s and were married in Pietermaritzburg on 2 September 1898. They moved back to England in 1904, where Cecilia was born in 1908. The family then migrated to Australia, departing London, England on 23 January 1913 aboard the Ballarat and arriving in Sydney on 8 March 1913

Passenger list for the ship Ballarat which departed London on 23 January 1913

Passenger list for the ship Ballarat which arrived in Sydney on 8 March 1913

Photograph

Cecilia at right sometime in the 1980s

Death
6 June 1997, age 88 years of age in Melbourne, Australia. She was cremated on 11 June 1997 following a service in the Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Greater Dandenong City, Victoria, Australia. Her cremated remains have been scattered

Residence

In 1931 Myer and Cecilia are living at 2 Plimsoll Grove in Fairfield, Melbourne, Australia

In 1934 Myer and Cecilia are living at 20 Ellingworth Parade, Box Hill, Melbourne, Victoria. It no longer exists and the properties here are now office buildings

In 1937 Myer and Cecilia were living in Nicol Street Yarram, Gippsland, Victoria as per the 1937 electoral register. Shortly afterwards he absconded