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Name: BOEDEKER, Frederick James Wardlaw

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Nee: son of Henry Albert, bro of Henry Harvey Sutherland Boedeker

Birth Date: 9 Apr 1902 Naivasha

Death Date: 11 Oct 1953 Mombasa

First Date: 1930

Last Date: 1953

Profession: Farmer, coffee planter

Area: Makuyu, 1952 Harvey Hill Estate, Kabete

Married: In Nairobi 28 Aug 1946 Doreen Lance b. 2 Jan 1899 Driffield, Yorks., d. 13 Oct 1994 Nanyuki

Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Dhows, Barnes

General Information:

Dhows - Vol 2 - Tom Fraser - when he moved there in 1936 one of the nearby farmers was Jim Bodeker, a bachelor at the time. He had an old car and he used to drive his fellow farmers into Nairobi; they'd go drinking in the Long Bar but he didn’t drink and so was sober to drive them home again. ………… When Tom went back to his farm in Makuyu after the war, Jim had left and he never had any more contact with the family; he didn't even know Jim had married. He had, and his widow the late Doreen, told me she'd no idea her father-in-law might have been half Parsee.
St. Mary's Church Kabete cemetery - James Wardlaw Boedeker - in dear memory of James Wardlaw Boedeker of Kabete and Makuyu (no dates)
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - James Fredrick Wardlaw Boedeker, died 11 Oct 1953 age 50, European Hospital, Heart Failure, coronary thrombosis - conveyed to St Mary's Kabete at wife's request
Hut has J. Boedeker 1937 Balmule Est. Ruiru and 1931 Balmule Makuyu
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List has J.F.W. Boedeker, coffee planter, Makuyu
Played rugby for Nondescripts in 1920s

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