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Name: BRAIDWOOD, William
Nee: bro of Mary Scott Elliot
Birth Date: 1864 Scotland
Death Date: 19.3.1929 Nairobi
Nationality: Scottish
First Date: 1906 from Scotland
Last Date: 1929
Profession: Came from Scotland to help his sister, Mrs Mary Scott Elliot, who had started a bakery, and he remained in Nairobi until his death. Appears in Stephen Ellis's ledger
Area: Nairobi
Married: Barbara McVicar Milne Campbell b. 1874 Scotland, d. 24.12.1958 Nairobi (later m. Robert Leiper Ballantyne 1897-1961)
Children: Barbara (1899-29 Apr 1916 Nairobi); Mary Ferguson 'Fergie' (1900); William Ferguson (10.12.1910 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, KAD, Red 25, Hut, Macmillan, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, Gazette, EAHB 1907, Barnes, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Red 19
General Information:
SE - Braidwood - The Imperial Tea Rooms - Nov 1907
Macmillan - 1930 - M.S. Elliot and Co. - The business is the oldest baking concern in Nairobi. It was started in 1903 by Mrs M.S. Elliot, a Scottish lady from Glasgow, who began it in a very small way by baking and selling delicious scones and cakes, which were very highly appreciated by the little community that formed at that time the nucleus of the future capital of Kenya. ….. After some years she was joined by her brother, the late Mr William Braidwood, who had been in business in South Africa as a grocer and provision merchant. In 1917 Mr W.D. Joiner was engaged as manager. That gentleman trained in the grocery and provision trade at Arbroath, Scotland, hed been since 1912 in the employ of a prominent Nairobi firm that went into liquidation [Boma Trading Co.], and became a partner in M.S. Elliot and Co. in 1917. In 1928 the firm was formed into a limited liability company, of which Mr Joiner is Managing Director, and Mrs Elliot is a large shareholder. The firm specialise as provision outfitters to safari and other expeditions, and were appointed in that connection to HRH the Duke of Gloucester. Drumkey 1909 - Lodge Scotia, No. 1008 S.C. - W. Junior Warden
Advertiser - Friday April 2, 1909 - Government School Prizegiving - Attendance Prize 2 - May Braidwood
Advertiser - 4/9/1908 - Subscribers for St. Andrew's Church Building Fund - Mrs Elliot & Mr Braidwood - Rs. 100
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - William Braidwood
EAHB 1907 - Nairobi (Government Road)
Nairobi South cemetery - William Braidwood, died 19 March 1929, aged 65
Red Book 1912 - W. Braidwood - Nairobi
Gazette 24/1/1917 - Probate and Administration of the estate of Ernest Sorrie, late of Nairobi who died at Nairobi on 5/11/1916. Applied for by William Braidwood, Merchant and James John Curran, watchmaker both of Nairobi (executors)
Gazette 13/4/1921 - Dissolution of Partnership between William Braidwood, Mary Scott Elliot, William Davidson Joiner and Elizabeth Baird carrying on business as M.S. Elliot & Co. has been dissolved by mutual consent, so far as regards the said Elizabeth Baird who retires from the firm
Red Book 1919 - W. Braidwood - M S Elliott & Co - Nairobi
Red 25 - c/o M.S. Elliott & Co.
Gazette - 4/6/1929 - Probate and Administration - William Braidwood late of Nairobi, who died at Nairobi on 19 March 1929. Applied for by John Munro of Kyambu and Robert Leiper Ballantyne of Nairobi
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