Biography

Known as May. Little is known of the deceased's life other than she had suffered from consumption for six months prior to her death. However, according to the newspaper death notice, Mabel had had two children, Alice and Robert. This is confirmed in the Metropolitan Cemeteries online listing showing that Alice died in Perth in 1979 aged 86 years and that she was the grantee of her brother, Robert's burial in 1964, aged 64 years, in the Roman Catholic section of Karrakatta Cemetery. Both were living in South Perth at their mother's house at the time of their death and their mother's death. It is assumed, but there is no confirmation, that these two siblings had the same father.