Edward Julius Wecker

Male 1881 - 1936  (54 years)


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  • Name Edward Julius Wecker 
    Born 26 Dec 1881  Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Name: Edward Julius Wecker
      Birth Date: 26 Dec 1881
      Father's Name: Michael Wecker
      Mother's Name: Emma Amelia Kelher
      Registration Year: 1882
      Registration Place: Queensland
      Registration Number: 001994
      (Queensland Birth register)
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 Sep 1936  Kingaroy District, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Name: Edward Julius Wecker
      Death Date: 16 Sep 1936
      Father's Name: Michael
      Mother's Name: Emma Amelia Kohler
      Registration Year: 1950
      Registration Number: 002093
      (Queensland Death Register)
    Personal 19 Sep 1936  The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FARMER MISSING
    KINGAROY. Friday.
    Edward Julius Wecker, of Alford Street, Kingaroy, and owner of farming properties at Chahpingah and Durong, left his home on Wednesday morning, supposedly, for his Durong property. Nothing has since been heard of him. Yesterday the police organised a search party. They were advised that a man answering to Wecker's description was seen walking along the Kumbia Road towards the showgrounds on Wednesday. This is in the opposite direction to the Durong route. Wecker. who is aged 52, is of dark complexion and heavily built, and walks with a limp.
    Transcribed from "The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Queensland", Saturday 19 September 1936
     
    Death 30 Nov 1949  he Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FARMER'S ESTATE
    Death remains mystery
    THIRTEEN years after Edward Julius Wecker, retired farmer, disappeared from his Kingaroy home the cause of his death remains a mystery. A skull, believed to be Wecker's, was found inside a hollow log near Kingaroy nine years after his disappearance on September 16, 1936. Yesterday in the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Matthews granted Wesley John Wecker, of Tingoora, near Kingaroy, leave to swear death as the proposed administrator of his father's £9554 gross estate.
    In an affidavit, Sergeant James Patrick Gallagher, of Redbank police, formerly of Kingaroy police, said that the skull was found by a boy named Kevin Tincknell, of Kingaroy, while on a picnic at Mt. Wooroolin, two miles from Kingaroy, on September 2, 1945.
    The log was about 30 feet from a patch of dense scrub in a reserve used as a rifle range, and was 40 feet from the road leading up the mountain.
    JAW MISSING
    The lower jaw of the skull was missing and Kingaroy dentists could not identify any work on the teeth.
    Police inquiries had failed to disclose any suspicious circumstances in Wecker's disappear ance. No other human remains had been found.
    A certificate by the Health Department Pathology Director (Dr. E. H. Derrick) stated that the top of the skull was rather flattened and agrees with the shape of the top of the head in a photograph of Wecker.
    Wesley Wecker's affidavit stated that prior to his father's disappearance, Wecker lived with his wife, Maud Ethel Wecker, now of Clayfield, and her two children by an earlier marriage.
    WIDE SEARCH
    Wecker's affidavit continued that for about two or three weeks after his father's disappearance, a thorough search of the Kingaroy countryside, including Mt. Wooroolin, was made by more than 100 police and civilians, and two black trackers, without result.
    Shortly before his disappearance his, father had been worried about the health of his wife, who had suffered a nervous breakdown. His father had never said or done anything which would lead him to suspect that he would take his own life, Wecker said.
    Mr. D. O. Andrews, instructed by McGuire and Res. solicitors, Brisbane, town agents for Bond and Res., Kingaroy, represented the petitioner.
    Transcribed from "The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Queensland", Wednesday 30 November 1949
     
    Person ID I8355  Hickey, List, Bundesen, Thomsen, Jensen, Jessen
    Last Modified 20 Nov 2011 

    Father Michael John Wecker,   d. 21 Mar 1935/1934?, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Emma Amelia Kohler,   d. 30 Oct 1949, Dalby District, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 28 Jun 1877  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Name: Michael Wecker
      Spouse Name: Emma Emilie Kohler
      Marriage Date: 28 Jun 1877
      Registration Number: B005661
      (Queensland Marriage Register
    Family ID F2824  Group Sheet

    Family 1 Martha Margaretha Gulk,   b. 2 Jul 1885, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1923, Kingaroy District, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married 11 Jul 1906  Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Name: Edward Julius Wecker
      Spouse Name: Martha Gulk
      Marriage Date: 11 Jul 1906
      Registration Year: 1906
      Registration Number: 001261
      Queensland Marriage Register)
    Children 
    +1. Wesley John Wecker,   b. 26 Jan 1908, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jan 1984, Wondai, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     2. Leslie Edward Wecker,   b. 9 Jul 1909, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 20 Nov 2011 
    Family ID F2822  Group Sheet

    Family 2 Maud Ethel May Black,   b. 1887, Benalla, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1971, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 30 Nov 1929  Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Name: Edward Julius Wecker
      Spouse Name: Maud Ethel May Jacobsen
      Marriage Date: 30 Nov 1929
      Registration Number: 003408
      (Queensland Marriage Register)
    Last Modified 20 Nov 2011 
    Family ID F2825  Group Sheet


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