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*/ Text[0]=["","Information relating to this entry will appear in this location shortly."] Text[1]=["","Click on the surname for more information."] Text[2]=["MC KENNA","It is not known where Mr McKenna is buried. As he was a suicide, he may have been buried in an unconsecrated part of the cemetery, as was the normal practise in those days. If you have this information, please email me - webmaster@ozburials.com

OBITUARY
Narrogin Observer, 11 August 1923
On Sunday last Mr R. Nairn paid a visit of inspection to a small building (situated adjacent to the cemetery) of which he is the caretaker, and on opening the door he was amazed to find the dead body of Robert McKenna suspended from a beam in one of the rooms. Mr Nairn at once notified the police, and Constable McLernon proceeded to the spot and subsequently removed the body to the morgue.
The deceased was 42 years of age, and a native of Scotland. He came to this country about three years ago, and for some time had been doing odd jobs about the town, but of late, we understand, he had been unemployed.
As the result of an enquiry held on Tuesday it was concluded that the deceased had taken his own life, there being nothing to indicate the state of his mind prior to the act.
The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon there being a large attendance, including representatives of the Narrogin and District Caledonian Society and R.S.L., the pall bearers being Messrs. Nairn, G. Lawson, Kerr, J. Stone, H. Gill and J. Clunas.
Wreaths were sent by:-
The Narrogin and District Caledonian Society
Narrogin Branch of R.S.L.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay
Mr. R. Nairn and Alick
Mr. and Mrs. Davidson
Mrs. Shearer and family
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Kerr and family

The funeral arrangements were carried out by Mr. Dawson
"] Text[3]=["Dr David William Hartnell MACKIE","In Narrogin from 1911. A highly respected doctor, accepted social leader, Mayor of Narrogin during World War I, warm supporter of most local organisations and president of several. He was seen as friend and adviser by people of all social levels, and was so esteemed that the ambulance hall (present History Hall) was erected to his memory after his death.
"] Text[4]=["Dorothy MACKINLAY","Dorothy was born 20 January 1912 in Cottesloe WA, the youngest daughter of John Henry GOULD and Caroline Maud Mary ATKINSON, sister of Husey Barbara WALSH, nee GOULD and John Wentworth GOULD (also buried in this cemetery).
She married Archibald MACKINLAY (son of John MACKINLAY and Sarah Boag HOOKS) on 9 April 1938 at Narrogin WA.
Their daughter, Edith Mabel MACKINLAY is also buried in this cemetery.
John MACKINLAY was born 7 February 1875, Drumanaught, Co.Donegal, Ireland. He was the eldest child of Archibald MCKINLAY (John altered the spelling of his surname) and Mary FRIZZELL and brother of Isabella, Mary (aka Polly),Georgina and Elizabeth Shannon MCKINLAY. Mary and her daughters all emigrated with Archibald from Ayrshire, Scotland to Canada, in 1907,where they remained when Archibald joined his son in Western Australia in 1915.
John married Sarah Boag HOOKS 20 October 1903 in the Metropolitan Church Cape Town Sth Africa.
Issue -
Margaret (1904-1988)
Archibald (1912-1985)
John and his family emigrated to Western Australia from Cape Town in 1915 and began farming at Flat Rocks near Broomhill. They moved to East Popanyinning in 1930 and again to Yornaning ca1938. He spent the last years of his life living with his son at Hillcroft, a property at Yornaning
Information provided by Beverley Mackinlay - macbev1@bigpond.com"] Text[5]=["Elinor Rolfe MACPHERSON","Please email me regarding this entry - webmaster@ozburials.com "] Text[6]=["Hugh MARSH","In Narrogin from 1903, he was a major builder and contractor, erecting the Town Hall, the War Memorial, both the original and the later flour mills, etc. He was a foundation Town Councillor, a keen Rifle Club member, active in the founding of the butter company, a very active worker for the Narrogin Agricultural Show....
"] Text[7]=["Arthur Patrick (Paddy) McCORMICK","Builder, Mayor."] Text[8]=["William MICKLE","Hairdresser, developer of Doddum Farm."] Text[9]=["John P. (Jack) MYERS","Garage owner, mayor, ambulance driver."] Text[10]=["Frank MIDDLETON Letters home:","In April 2002, through the agency of Sara Joynes, the National Librarys representative at the Australian High Commission in London, the Battye Library received a folder of letters and postcards from Arthur Lupton of North Yorkshire simply entitled Uncle Frank.
Uncle Frank was Frank Middleton, a young farmer from Tyldesley, England. In poor health, suffering with bronchitis. he travelled to Western Australia where the climate would supposedly be of benefit to him. His letters document his travels so far from home.
He wrote lovingly to his parents, and Margaret and James, his siblings, responding to their letters and gifts, sending his own. Through Franks writing his family become real. He speaks of his wish to work his own property rather than labour for a cocky, and describes in some detail the society he sees around him, in some ways familiar but more often dramatically different to the life he left behind. Frank regularly sent home a local paper for his father, including the Sunday Times, and often included postcards or photographs of himself with his letters
Sailing from London, Frank disembarked from the SS Orontes at Fremantle on 9 December 1913 and, within a week, moved to Gingin where he worked for a man named Wake. A working day of 5am to 8pm left an impression: I hardly think I shall settle out here (WA), though they say a man has a chance of making his fortune in 10 years, but on the other hand it means you have to practically slave all the time, put up with a lot of hardship & 10 yrs exile. Is it worth it. [26 December 1913].
Experiencing difficulties with the environment, conditions, and Wake himself, Frank headed to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in late January. During his sojourn in the Goldfields he befriended another young chap, fresh out from England like himself, W (William) E Gratton.
Franks impressions of the Goldfields are still familiar to travellers today: Talk about pubs, it is no use sending a man out here to break him off the drink, they are all over the shop. Every little place, if it has only 1/2 doz shanties, has a pub. Hannan St, in this place ... contains 24... [14 Feb 1914, Kalgoorlie]
I confine myself to as few changes of clothes as possible while up here, as it is so dusty one has a job to keep anything realy [sic] clean my pants have a quite a redish [sic] tinge about them ... it is quite impossible to get your handkerchiefs white owing to the water having a redish [sic] look about it. [14 March 1914, Kalgoorlie]
And, of course, what young man could ignore the beauty of the strange new world Frank found himself in: We get some startling modes of dress among the woemen [sic] here, split skirts with a rather large amount of leg shown (up to the knees), diaphanous dresses, etc I only wrote you that dicription [sic] to give you some idea of things feminine out here. I assure you I dont go in for any picking up tricks, too expensive I believe ... [Short, undated letter to Margaret, Kalgoorlie]
He noted the tough life on the land but also the contrast between country and Town.
Some of these cockies are regular slave drivers. This is supposed to be a democratic country & is so to a great extent in the country but in the towns there is any amount of snobbishness or rather swank seems the better word among the nouveau riche, just look at the society columns of the papers I am sending. [undated, before March 1914].
After a period of restlessness, Frank applied for, and was accepted into, the Agricultural College at Narrogin in April 1914. There had initially been some doubt about his acceptance, due to his age and health. The doctor in Kalgoorlie suspected he had tuberculosis: he didnt. His health is a regular topic in his letters, usually saying he is either unchanged or feeling better, yet he is never rid of his cough. At the beginning of October 1914 he is very sick and suspects acid in the blood, though his doctor thinks it is due to the heat. Meanwhile, back in England, his brother James has enlisted for the Great War.
Franks last letter to his family was written on 25 October 1914. He advised his family that he would not be home for Christmas as he has enrolled in College for another term. He concludes his letter by saying, I may say 1 have got over my sickness & am in my usual health in the words of the poet or some other chap All in the garden is lovely and the world is a pleasant place again.
Frank died in the hospital at the College in the early hours of 31 October 1914, aged 25, and was laid to rest in the Anglican section of the Narrogin cemetery.
The principal of the college, A W L Southern corresponded with Franks parents after his death, arranging with them to have a memorial stone placed on Franks grave. Southern would later lose two sons in the Dardanelles landing.
After Franks death, W (Will) E Gratton commenced writing to Franks brother and sister. These letters also form part of the collection. Gratton would later arrange for an acquaintance in Narrogin to tend to Franks grave on the familys behalf.
This very personal collection presents a picture of a remarkable young man, filled with his gentle humour and lovely pen pictures of the life and customs he observed in his travels in Western Australia. A lively and loving writer, Franks letters make a valuable addition to the Battye Librarys Private Archives collection."] /* The following entry is not for publication Text[11]=["Elinor Rolfe MACPHERSON","Elinor was born in Auckland in 1870 as Elinor Rolfe Coombe. Her father was Joseph Coombe, an accountant for the bank of Auckland and a man of some note in the community coming from wealthy upper-class parents from London. Her mother was the disputed illegitimate daughter of William Buchanan, an upper class who came to the colony seeking success and eventually became a wealthy grazier and Mary Ann Tool, an Irish convict transported for stealing cotton.
Elinor’s father died when she was 2 and she was raised in Sydney by her mother. She was married once to a John Sibald who died and then later remarried Jack Wallace Macpherson in 1905. They travelled to Perth where they had a son Dudley in 1906. Her husband and her were employed by the education department, he was the Head Teacher and she was the Sewing Mistress. They worked at Balcatta Primary School, then transferred to Walkaway school near Greenough and then onto Moonyoonooka School near Geraldton. Unfortunately Dudley died in 1907 and was buried in Geraldton although under his middle name. Elinor had another Child in 1908, Thelma Buchanan and they were transferred to Minnining School, a small remote school servicing farms near Narrogin. Elinor had been sick for some time and not working.
On December 31st 1908, Elinor died in the school teachers quarters at Minnining and was buried on January 1st 1909 in Narrogin Cemetery leaving Jack with their daughter Thelma who was 9 months old.
Jack two months later married Elizabeth Gill, the daughter of one of the local farmers and possibly and ex student of the school. She was young at the time of the marriage and her occupation was listed as domestic. Jack appears not to have coped with the death of Elinor because although his service record showed him as a dedicated and hard working if not particularly well trained or skilled teacher but immediately after Elinor’s death, his inspection reports went downhill and he was constantly in trouble with the department for things like swearing in front of the students and parents, reprimanded on one occasion for over disciplining of a child which in 1909 must have been pretty severe and eventually resigned before he was sacked.
Thelma and her stepmother eventually ended up in Merredin where she met in 1926 a young miner from Kalgoorlie who she married and went to live in Kalgoorlie and had a large family.
Information provided by Steve Hollis - email: steven.hollis@downerediengineering.com.au"] */ Style[0]=["white","black","#C49FB9","#ffffff","","","","","","","","","",2,300,"",2,2,10,10,51,1,0,"",""] Style[1]=["white","black","#C49FB9","#ffffff","","","","","","","","","","",300,"",2,2,10,10,51,1,0,"",""] Style[2]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","left","","","",600,"",2,2,10,10,"","","","",""] Style[3]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","float","","","",600,"",2,2,10,10,"","","","",""] Style[4]=["white","black","#E2D0DC","#ffffff","","","","","","","fixed","","","",600,"",2,2,1,1,"","","","",""] Style[5]=["white","black","#E2D0DC","#ffffff","","","","","","Verdana","","sticky","2","",600,"",2,2,10,10,"","","","",""] Style[6]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","","keep","","",600,"",2,2,10,10,"","","","",""] Style[7]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","","","","",600,"",2,2,40,10,"","","","",""] Style[8]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","","","","",600,"",2,2,10,50,"","","","",""] Style[9]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","","","","",600,"",2,2,10,10,51,0.5,75,"simple","gray"] Style[10]=["white","black","black","white","","","right","","Impact","cursive","center","",3,5,600,150,5,20,10,0,50,1,80,"complex","gray"] Style[11]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","","","","",600,"",2,2,10,10,51,0.5,45,"simple","gray"] Style[12]=["white","black","#000099","#E8E8FF","","","","","","","","","","",600,"",2,2,10,10,"","","","",""] applyCssFilter()