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Name: GLANVILLE, Godfrey Kennelly

Birth Date: 1867

Death Date: 14 Dec 1937 Kitale

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1937

Profession: Crossed Nzoia River to start farming before 1914

Area: Kitale, 1925 Farm 6, 'Elandwold Estate', Hoey's Bridge

Married: In Grahamstown 7 Oct 1903 Ada Lester b. 1 June 1870 Grahamstown, d. 26 Aug 1949 Kitale

Children: Mildred Hope (16 Apr 1907 Grahamstown); R. Clive (d. 31 July 1934); Sydney L. (d. 27 Sep 1928)

Book Reference: Red 19, KFA, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Nicholls, Gazette, Barnes

War Service: Gorringe's Flying Column (2nd Boer War)

General Information:

Nicholls - 1913 - Trans Nzoia farm purchaser
Nicholls - lost his two sons to blackwater fever.
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau
North - Godfrey K. Glanville - Farmer, Soy, Trans Nzoia
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau North - Godfrey Kennelly Glanvith ? - Farmer, Soy, Trans Nzoia
Red Book 1919 - Eastern and Central Nzoia Farmers' Association, Trans Nzoia - President - G.K. Glanville
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Godfrey Kennelly Glanville - died 14 Dec 1937
Red 25 - Honorary Permit Issuer
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Godfrey Kennelly Glanville, Farmer, PO Soy
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List expunged
S. African records have his 2nd forename as Kenneth (Ancestry)
Barnes Kitale Cem. Ada, Mrs Glanville (d. 26 Aug 1949); Godfrey Kennelly (14 Dec 1937); R. Clive (31 July 1934); Sydney L. (27 Sep 1928) all buried there.
Red Book 1919 - Permit Issuer - Naivasha - G.K. Granville [sic], Trans Nzoia, PO Soy
Gazette 22 Feb 1938 probate
Red 22 - Honorary Permit Issuer
See also J. Glanville

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