{"id":2508,"date":"2024-11-25T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2508"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:26:02","slug":"cecil-george-stark-laurie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/rosina-cairns-stark\/cecil-george-stark-laurie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecil George Stark Laurie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A disclaimer. Cecil George Stark was born to Rosina Cairns Stark &#8211; supported by his birth certificate. It is conjecture what happened immediately after his birth, but is appears he was placed for adoption and went into the care of Edith and Edward Laurie at Mataura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This biography is based on the facts at hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George was born on the 25 October 1907\u00a0at\u00a0Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. He attended Mataura School in his youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early in his working career, he was a clerk, but at some point became a machinist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1928, Cecil married Violet Thomas. From that union, arrived 1 child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Comments<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ernest Cecil<\/td><td>1930<\/td><td>1954<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>1991<\/td><td>Wood<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cecil died on the 25 June 1977\u00a0at Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand and his remains are buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violet passed away also in 1977 and is buried alongside Cecil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_media-v-811135-rendering-original-jpg-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_media-v-811135-rendering-original-jpg-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_media-v-811135-rendering-original-jpg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_media-v-811135-rendering-original-jpg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_media-v-811135-rendering-original-jpg-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_media-v-811135-rendering-original-jpg-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disclaimer. Cecil George Stark was born to Rosina Cairns Stark &#8211; supported by his birth certificate. It is conjecture what happened immediately after his birth, but is appears he was placed for adoption and went into the care of Edith and Edward Laurie at Mataura. This biography is based on the facts at hand. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/rosina-cairns-stark\/cecil-george-stark-laurie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cecil George Stark Laurie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":907,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2508\/revisions\/3680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}