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Helen Marion RUCKS

Burial Location:Kookynie  (details...)
Place of Death: Cumberland Niagara Gold Mine Lease, Kookynie
Date of Death: 08 August 1904
Date of Burial:09 August 1904
Age:7 months
Cause of Death:Pneumonia, Heart Failure
OGM Ref#: 1661
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. Elsie Helen or Helena died in Kookynie on 27 May 1905, aged about 6 months. She died of gastro enteritis and diarrhoea. Her story also appears in this website.

Parents:Margaret Beatrice (nee WALKER) and Carl (Charles) Raymond Fredrick RUCKS (Miner)
Birth Details:1904, Kookynie; Birth Registration 1968/1904
Death Certificate:791/1904

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