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Name: GARVIE, Cornelia Gertruida 'Nellie', Mrs

Nee: Steyn

Birth Date: 28 Oct 1880 Barkly East, Cape Province, S Africa

Death Date: 1975 Dover, buried in Deal, Kent

First Date: 1902

Area: Mombasa

Married: In Johannesburg 3 Sep 1903 Donald Sutherland Garvie (1873-1912)

Children: Dorothea Irene 'Poppy' (19.2.1905 Kapsabet, 1st white child b. in Nandi, m. James Riddell son of ex Mayor of Nairobi, went to Australia); Louisa Margaret Jeanette (Gledhill) (16.7.1906 Johannesburg-1998); Donald Sutherland (28.11.1907 Nairobi, d. in Australia)

Book Reference: SKP, North

General Information:

SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived May 1904 - Mombasa
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Mrs C. G. Garvie, Groganville, Nbi

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