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Elsie Helen RUCKS

Burial Location:Kookynie  (details...)
Place of Death: Cumberland Lease, Kookynie
Date of Death: 27 May 1905
Date of Burial:29 May 1905
Age:4 months
Cause of Death:Gastro Enteritis, Diarrhoea
OGM Ref#: 1679
Headstone:OGM Aluminium

Biography

The deceased's father, Carl (Charles) Raymond Fredrick von Rucks, as the family knew him to be, married Margaret Beatrice Walker in Perth in 1903. Their known children were: William Thomas born 1902; Helen Marion; Elsie Helena born in November 1904; Cyril Frederick born 1906. Helen Marion died of pneumonia in Kookynie on 8 August 1904. Her story is also told in this website. She is buried in Kookynie Cemetery.

Parents:Margaret Beatrice (nee WALKER) and Carl (Charles) Frederick Raymond RUCKS (Miner)
Birth Details:January 1905, Northam; Birth Registration 4359/1905
Death Certificate:796/1905

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