Millicent Norine Cooke, 10 months 26 days, died 1921

Sacred to the Memory of
MILLICENT NORINE
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF
MR & MRS COOKE, GONDA
BORN 19TH MARCH 1920
DIED 13TH FEBRUARY 1921
AGED 10 MONTHS 26 DAYS
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SAFELY, SAFELY GATHERED IN,
FAR FROM SORROW, FAR FROM SIN,
GOD HAS SAVED FROM WEARY STRIFE,
IN ITS DAWN, THIS FRESH YOUNG LIFE
(Gonda Cemetery)
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The Cooke family's connection to Gonda
and the railways goes back 100 years
at the very least. Capt Robert Cooke,
a friend of this blogger, said he wasn't
aware of Millicent but said she must 
have been an elder sibling to his 
father, Henry and brothers Donald 
and Malcolm. Henry a retired NER guard 
died in Lucknow in 1999. Robert also said 
his maternal grandparents, the Ollivers and 
paternal grand parents died in Gonda. Sadly, 
there is no sign of their graves. Robert's  
mother Ida Cooke (nee Olliver) died in
Lucknow in 2003. Ida's mother was 
a De Castro.