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Name: POWIS, Harold
Nee: bro of Gwendoline Powis, son of Smith Powis
Birth Date: 1893 Stoke on Trent
Death Date: 11 Aug 1964 Bellville, S. Africa
First Date: 1920
Last Date: 1964
Profession: KUR guard; 1953 Traffic Manager
Area: Nakuru
Married: Hilda Marion b. 1895
Children: Anthony Harold Smith ( 1928-30 Aug 1947); Margaret (1922); Doreen (1927); Thelma (1935)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Barnes
General Information:
Red 22 - Nairobi Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Harold Powis, buried 9 Sep 1964 aged 71 AND Anthony Harold Smith Powis, died 30 Aug 1947 aged 19, buried in the same plot.
Gazette - 17/3/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Guard, K & U Rly - H. Powis
Gazette 8 Dec 1964 probate says he d. 11 Aug 1964 at Bellville, S Africa
Nat Probate Calendar
Blue Book 1926 appt as ticket examiner 26.1.1923
Ancestry Passenger List 19 July 1920 London-Mombasa, went to Kenya with Smith Powis aged 51, clothier, and Gwendolin aged 18 - he was a Talior's Manager then.
He seems to have married Doris Davis in Coventry in 1915