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Name: LAWRENCE, William Drysdale
Birth Date: 1861 possibly S. Africa
First Date: 1920
Profession: Chicken farmer; vegetable gardener, 'Primrose' Mau Summit
Area: Mau Summit
Married: 1. In Calcutta (he was a widower) 2 July 1910 Jane Brown; 2. Mary Adelade
Children: James 'Jimmy'; Janet, nurse
Book Reference: Old Africa
General Information:
Old Africa 23/4 - Had a large chicken farm on Col. Maggs estate at Mau Summit. Mary also ran a maternity clinic on the Estate
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Rift Valley voters' list, William Drysdale Lawrence, vegetable farmer, and Janet Lawrence, nursing sister, Primrose Cottage, Mau Summit
Freemason 17 Mar 1891 Agra, Bengal and Malwa Lodge, Mhow, Bombay 15 May 1915 - he was a loco foreman