Raphael Cilento - Family

Family

In 1918, whilst they were both studying medicine at the University of Adelaide, he became engaged to, and on 18 March 1920 at St Columba’s Church of England, Hawthorn he married, Dr Phyllis McGlew, who also became a well-known medical practitioner and medical writer. They briefly set up in general practice in Tranmere before departing for Malaya in October.

Together they had three sons and three daughters. The three sons and Ruth became medical practitioners, Margaret became an artist, and Diane became an actress.

Raphael C F Cilento, February 1921 - May 29, 2012, became a Neurosurgeon. He married Billie Solomon on 31 January 1947, and had four children daughter, Adrienne, Julien, Vivienne and Raphael. He took over his mother's practise in Brisbane in 1949. He later divorced Billie and married Mavis Ross in 1958. They had five children, Penny, Giovanna, Abby, Naomi and Benjamin. From 1963-2007 he was licensed to practise in New York.

Phyllis Margaret Cilento (1923-2006), born 23 December 1923 in Sydney, became a painter and printmaker. She grew up in Brisbane, moved to Syned in 1943, and joined her father in New York in 1945. She spent most of the 1950s and early 1960s in Europe, marrying Geoffrey Maslen in 1963, and returned to Brisbane in 1965 to raise their family. She took up art again seriously around 2000, holding several exhibitions. She died 21 November 2006 in Melbourne.

Ruth A Yolanda Cilento was born in Adelaide in 1925 and graduated in medicine and surgery from Queensland University in 1949. She became engaged to Westall David Smout in November 1949, took up duty at Cairns Base Hospital in December 1949, and married in Brisbane on 14 July 1950. In addition to a medical career, she has three children, is a sculptor, a sketcher, has an angora goat stud and wrote a children's book, Moreton Bay Adventure in 1961, which elder sister Margaret illustrated.

Carl Lindsay Cilento (1928-2004) was born in August 1928 in Brisbane. On 16 April 1952 he married Diana Lauderdale Maitland. They had six children: Peter (1953), Miranda (1955), Joanne and Belinda (1957), Richard (1961) and Madeline (1966).

Diane Cilento (5 October 1933 - 6 October 2011) was born in Mooloolaba, Queensland. She was a famous actress who, for eleven years, was married to Sean Connery, and was the mother of actor Jason Connery.

David Cilento was born ca. 1937.