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Percy Newberry COBBETT

Burial Location:Menzies Cemetery  (details...)
Place of Death: Menzies Private Hospital
Date of Death: 03 January 1897
Date of Burial:03 January 1897
Age:33 years
Cause of Death:Enteric Fever, Acute Meningitis
OGM Ref#: 2836
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
This is a photograph of plaque number 2836 for PERCY N COBBETT at MENZIES

REF 2836 PERCY N COBBETT MENZIES

Biography

Percy Cobbett had been suffering meningitis and enteric fever for 30 days before his death.

In Percy's Marriage Certificate, he was described as a 'gentleman'. His parents were married January 1859 (Marriage Registration Volume 2a Page 699); Robert Newberry was born about September 1830, West Hackney, died March 1881 in Devon, England.

His mother was born 29 October 1828 in Hackney, Middlesex, died 18 March 1904 in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Percy was the second of three children born to this couple. His siblings were his older brother, Charles Newberry born January 1863 in Southgate, Middlesex, and his younger sister, Eleanor Florence born 30 December 1866 in Southgate. 

Parents:Louisa Laura (nee Slark) & Robert Newberry COBBETT
Spouse:Caroline Fanny STANGER-LEATHES (Widow) (nee DEWHURST); Previously married to Arthur STANGER-LEATHES, 1883, who died 1885
Marriage Details:25 June 1888, London, England; Birth Registration London City Vol 1c, Page 52
Children:Erling Lovel Newberry born Abt 1890, Fulham, London, England
Death Certificate:660/1897
State Records Office: Percy Newberry Cobbett AU WA S34 cons3403 1898/075 - Item - Part of FILES - PROBATE
Comments:Percy's Probate record: COBBETT Percy Newberry of Menzies Western Australia died 3 January1897 Probate London 8 July to Sydney Bush Cripps merchant and Charles Newberry Cobbett M.D. (His older brother) Effects 2600 pounds. In Western Australia, probate and administration was granted in the Supreme Court with Letters of Administration (with Will annexed), Percy left £50 to Robert Rivington Pilkington.