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Name: GLEDHILL, Harry Cooke
Short Name: bro of William Spencer Gledhill
Birth Date: 5 Oct 1904 Featherstone, Yorkshire
Death Date: I Dec 1967 Watamu
First Date: 1920
Profession: Farmer; manager of Kabuki Fibrelands, sisal farm at Mitubiri; Texas Oil Co. in Mombasa; inspector for Kenya Bus Services; road construction engineer with PWD
Married: 1. In Nairobi 1926 (div. 1949) Louisa Margaret Jeanette Garvie b. 16 July 1902 Johannesburg, d. 1998 Johannesburg (dau of Donald Sutherland Garvie snr.) (she later m. William Watkins, master mariner); 2. Hilda Milliken, schoolteacher
Children: Harry Cooke (renamed Douglas) (4 Jan 1928); Anthony (31 Jan 1929 Bradford-1978 Brisbane); Alistair Garvie (15 Jan 1943 Johannesburg-27 Nov 2015)
General Information:
After 2nd marriage they lived on Hilda's smallholding at Takaungu.
Keen rugby player - member of Nondescripts team
Gazette 7 Apr 1967 probate