Name: Lillian Cecilia McKay

Date of Birth:  1908  (1910 – BDM-WA)

Birth Location: Greenough, Western Australia

Maiden Name: Starling

Also Known As: Lily

Age at Burial: 42 years (BDM-WA – 40 years)

Date of Death: 8 August 1959

Death Location: Bunbury, Western Australia

Date of Burial: 10 July 1950

Denomination: Catholic

Row/Grave: Row 3 Grave #15

Grave Transcription:

Loving Memory of

LILLIAN CECILIA

Beloved wife of

Harold K McKay

Died 8th Aug 1950

Aged 42 years

Sadly Missed

Father: Walter Francis Starling. Born 15 August 1876.  Died 15 November 1918.  Aged 42 (married 1903) – buried with Helena at Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton, Section Catholic, Row 5, Plot 9.

Mother: Helena Frances Kemp.  Born 1884.  Died 20 January 1934 (married 1903) – buried with Walter at Utakarra Cemetery Geraldton, Section Catholic, Row 5, Plot 9.

Helena Frances Starling – second marriage in 1924 to Francis Major.  Born 1898. Died 1925. Aged 27 (married one year)

Grandparents (father): Robert Starling 1824 – 1882, Western Australia, aged 58 years and Beulah Emily Crippen Osborne 1855 – 1925, Western Australia, aged 70.

Grandparents (mother): Henry Kemp 1842 – 1914, Western Australia,  aged 72 and Ellen Buckley 1850 – 1916,  aged 66

Siblings:

Walter Joseph Reuben Starling. 1904 – 1975.  Married Ethel May Witton in 1932

Charles Arthur Starling. 1905 – 1991

Kathleen Zeta Starling. 1907 – 1947.  Married Henry Leo Beaver in 1929

Leslie Francis Starling. 1908

Florence Emily Starling. 1912 – 1993.  Married Joe Twomey

Helena Agnes Starling. 1915 – 1930

May Starling. 1916 –         Married Joseph Patrick Smith in 1939

Ronald George Starling.  1918 – 1964.  Married May F Barndon

Spouse: Harold Keith Mckay.  Born 27 January 1909, Midland Junction, Western Australia – Died Manjimup 1974.  Buried at Manjimup.  Grave#1335a

Married 1928 in Geraldton.

Children:

Aubrey Keith Mckay.  1928 – 1973

Shirley Joy McKay.  1928 – 1938

Patricia June McKay (Twin).  1931 – 2014

Pauline May Mckay (Twin).  1931 – 2011

Robert Walter John Mckay (Bob).  1932 – 2004

Keith Joseph Mckay.  1933 – 1993

Dennis Mckay.  1939 – 2011

Occupation: House wife

Military Service: No

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