Cecilia Ann Brede

Cecelia Ann Brede was the eldest child and only daughter of a London vintner. She was named after her mother Cecilia Matthews, who came from Surrey. In 1849, she married Samuel Bouts at St Botolph Without, Aldersgate, London. They had six children, but in 1863, between February and June, the family was devastated by the deaths of Samuel, her older son, aged 9, and then Cecelia. They are buried in Abney Park cemetery. Her baby boy was only a year old and the children were perhaps cared for by her widowed mother, Cecelia, who died in 1880 at Mile End and is also buried at Abney Park.
The three surviving daughters were educated at Pinner, a school for orphans of travellers. Alice and Jessie emigrated to Melbourne in 1884, then Cecelia followed in about 1895. A cousin, Arthur Bouts emigrated to Adelaide in 1881 but we do not know if they kept in touch.