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Name: OULTON, Kate, Mrs
Nee: Rawlings
Birth Date: 1874 Trowbridge, Wilts, on a dairy farm
Death Date: 4 Aug 1950 Nairobi, hit and run driver on Ngong Road
First Date: 1900 went out to marry Tom Oulton in Mombasa Cathedral
Profession: State Registered Nurse, cheesemaker
Area: Thika
Married: 1900 John Thomas Oulton (1875-1945)
Children: Jack (12.4.1903, Nairobi-1979); Kathleen (Frisby and Barnes) (16.4.1904 Kikuyu-1980); Molly (Dolan and Nattle)
Book Reference: Gillett, KFA, SKP
General Information:
Railway just built to Nairobi. Their first home was tent in Govt. Rd. She was not only a superb butter and cheese maker but was also a State Registered Nurse
Apart from helping her husband run a farm and win prizes for dairy products, she became renowned for her acts of mercy, helping all races, particularly with problems involved with malaria and child birth. After one cross country journey she delivered a premature baby boy and kept him alive in an empty one-gallon debi, lined with cotton wool. He grew up to be the famous Professor Leakey. Tragically killed by a hit and run
driver on Ngong Road.
KFA - Won prize for butter at Agricultural and Horticultural Show in Nairobi in 1903.
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived Sept 1900
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - John Thomas Oulton, died 16 dec 1945 aged 70 AND Kate Oulton, died 4 Aug 1950 aged 75, buried in next grave