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Name: MATHERN, Aloyse
Nee: Brother Théodemir
Birth Date: 14.6.1871 Ribeauville, Alsace
Death Date: 20.7.1932 Nairobi
First Date: 1892
Profession: Carpenter in charge of building the new Catholic Boarding Schooln Nairobi, 1904; Catholic Mission at Mbonda 1893, Kiboshi 1897
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: KAD, North, Red 31
General Information:
A carpenter in charge of building new Catholic boarding sch. Nairobi 1904
North - Holy Ghost Fathers - Shoemaker; dep. Marseille for Zanzibar 12-10-1892; Bagamoyo; Kiboshi 1897; in charge of building new Catholic boarding school at Nairobi June 1904
Barnes - buried in Langata cem.
H.J. Koren, Spiritan (1994): Son of a babourer, learned shoemaker's trade. To Mhonda. 1897, to Kibosho new mission, as mason, smith, carpenter, coffee planter. 1914 exploratory trip along Tana R.. WW! lived and worked in Nairobi..Stayed at St Austin's - he built, ran dispensary, pulled teeth, did surgery, and organised the mssion's coffee plantation. Died of pneumonia.