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Willie STARKIE

1888 – 1935 · Hunslet, West Yorkshire
👶Birth
1888
🏛️ Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel
Hunslet, West Yorkshire 📍 Free BMD
💒Marriage (24)
1912
🏛️ Sinking of RMS Titanic
Constance SPARROW
Lough, Lincolnshire 📍 Free BMD
✝️Death (47)
21/10/1935
Royal Infirmary, Chester, Cheshire 📍
🪦Burial
25/10/1935
Overleigh New Cemetery, Handbridge, Chester, Cheshire 📍
Section B Grave Number 1 📎 Grave 🔗 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Image 📎 Grave 📎 Grave

The grave has edgings which read:

Left Side
TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF WILL,
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF CONSTANCE STARKIE,
DIED OCTOBER 21st 1935. AGED 47 YEARS.

Front
ONE OF GOD'S GOOD MEN

Also buried in the grave is Margaret (Brickland) Starkie:

"Beyond Death, Life."

In Memory Of
MARGARET STARKIE,
Died 14 Dec. 1998, Aged 82 Yrs.
Loving Wife Of KEN.
KENNETH WILLIAM LEWIS STARKIE
Died 16. Sept. 2005, Aged 91 Yrs.
A True Gentleman
Fondly Remembered Parents & Grandparents

Children with Constance SPARROW
Kenneth William Lewis STARKIE
b. 1914, Lincoln, Lincolnshire · d. 2005, Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, Cheshire · m. 1947 Margaret BRICKLAND
Notes

He was a Yorkshireman and moved to Cheshire to take up the appointment of District Surveyor for the Northwich Division under the Cheshire County Council. He held this position for 16 years before being appointed Assistant County Surveyor for Cheshire. He lived in Mickle Trafford. He was suddenly taken ill and died in the Royal Infirmary, aged 47 yrs. He was buried on the 25th October 1935.
(Source:- Cheshire Observer 26th October 1935)

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