Daughter of Joseph Bakes (a farmer) & Eliza Dorman. Born 18 September 1899 Back Creek near Yackandandah. Second youngest of eleven children.

From the ODH House Committee report 15 December 1919 - … nurse Bakes of Yackandandah had been engaged as probationer and started on duty on the 29th of last month …

From the ODH House Committee report 15 March 1920 – Nurse Bakes had completed 3 months’ probation, passed the medical examination and the medical officer and matron recommend that she be retained on staff.

From the minutes of ODH board meeting 16 March 1920 - … that the seal of the hospital be affixed to the indentures of Nurse Bakes.

From the ODH Inpatient Register 1 January 1906-28 April, 1925. Admitted as a patient with shock on 6 April 1920. 11 April 1920 discharged to her father, Joseph Bakes of Yackandandah.

Passed final examinations December 1922 – See Argus, 15 December 1922

Nurse Bakes has gone to Melbourne to the annual examinations. Yackandandah Times, 1 December 1922.

Date of qualification, December 1922.

From the ODH House Committee report 21 August 1923 – Nurse Finnis is away on sick leave, since 26th July and Nurse Bakes is here since that date at £3-3-0 per week. She was engaged for one week but has been kept on.

1925 - 1927 is at Trained Nurses’ Club, 452 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

Gained midwifery certificate, St. George’s Hospital, Kew.

May 1929 Lily is relieving matron at the Wood's Point Hospital.

1930-1936 at St. Quentin’s Hospital, Ararat.

1937 -1939 at St Margaret’s Private Hospital, Alexandra.

Father, Joseph, died 5 July 1939. See Joseph Bakes 

Mother, Eliza died 28 November, 1940. See Eliza Bakes 

In December 1939 Bishop Hart, at Yackandandah, dedicated a new altar endowed by the family of the late Joseph Bakes, who was an early pioneer member of  the Holy Trinity Church.

1940 – 1945 is at St. Jude’s Private Hospital, Koroit.

1947 - 1949 ER  is living at 27 Tamar-grove, Oakleigh,  with her younger sister, Alice and Alice's husband, George Murphy. Lily's occupation is listed as nurse. The house appears to be owned by Lily.

1954, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977 ER at 184 Koornang Road, Oakleigh.

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