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Name: SHELDON, William Denis 'Bill'
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1907 Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Death Date: 1971 Pietermaritzberg, SA
First Date: 1951
Last Date: 1964
Profession: Male nurse (Mathari & Nairobi Prison mental hospitals)
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Wandsworth 1934 Rachel Ann Jenkins b. 6 Nov 1909, d. 23 Feb 1959 Nairobi
Children: Ann (Edmondson) (1942); Peter William (1946)
Book Reference: EAWL, Childhood
General Information:
Source: Peter William Sheldon
Childhood - Ann Edmondson - "In June 1951 extended family members waved us goodbye as the 4 of us set sail from Tilbury Docks on the Durban Castle. My parents, William (Bill) and Rachel Ann (Ray) Sheldon had accepted a married couple's post at Mathari Hospital, Muthaiga.
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Mitcham, as male nurse