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Name: BORWICK, George Ernest
Nee: son of Alfred and Euphemia Borwick
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1864 Walthamstow
Death Date: 24 Sep 1931 Ruiru
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1931
Profession: Farmer at Ruiru
Area: Ruiru, HBEA 1912 - PO Box 88, Nairobi, 1925 Ruiru, 1919 Mutundu Ruiru
Married: In Barkly West, S. Africa 20 Dec 1900 Edith Susannah Green b. 18 Apr 1875 Colesberg, Northern Cape, S. Africa, d. 13 July 1957 Nairobi
Children: Dorothy Constance (Brandram) (27 Sep 1901 Orange River, S. Africa-1969); Mary Hope (Malcolm-Smith) (17 May 1903 S. Africa-1964); Lloyd George Mortimer (1 June 1905 S. Africa-1973); Arnold (6 June 1908 S. Africa-1979 Tanzania); Alfred Henry (13 July 1913 Nairobi-1993); Jane (13 May 1915 Kenya-17 July 1999 Taunton, Somerset) (Atkins); Patricia Edith (1918 Kenya-1988) (Rundgren)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Gazette, Wed, Barnes, Peerage, Leader14, Ione Evans, Red 19
General Information:
Kiambu Scrapbook - Founder member of Ruiru Sports Club in 1921 - Borwick family
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - George E. Borwick, Nairobi Coffee Plantation
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - George Ernest Borwick, British, age 67, died 24/9/31
Peerage - He was a farmer in British Columbia, Canada. He was a farmer in South America prior to coming to Kenya in January 1912
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - George Ernest Borwick, Coffee Planter, PO Ruiru
Ione Evans - My grandfather was George Ernest Borwick. Born in England 21/9/1864. He went to SA where he met my grandmother in Kimberley during the Siege of Kimberley. He went to Kenya in Jan 1912 with his wife and 4 children - Constance, Mary, Lloyd, Arnold (my father). He farmed on land at Ruiru that belonged to his cousin's husband Lord Croft. They had 3 more children in Kenya - Alfred, Jane, Patricia. Edith later bought her own farm Esdaile in Nanyuki from where she had to be rescued after being attacked and left under a water tank. George Ernest left Edith Susannah after 1920 and died 1931 in Kenya.
Red Book 1919 - G E Borwick - Settler - Ruiru
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