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Name: MAKER, William George
Nee: son of George and Annie Maker
Birth Date: 10.4.1873 Karachi
Death Date: 23.4.1910 Nairobi
Nationality: British
First Date: 1899
Last Date: 1910
Profession: Uganda Railway - Loco Foreman/Guard - Issued with Bird Licence 19/11/1901
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Karachi 27 Apr 1904 Mildred Carmel Farrow b. 1887 India (later m. Frederick Flatman Considine 1874-1941). She was the sister of Bertha Winifred Farrow married to her husband's bro Arthur Edward Maker)
Children: William Albert (27.11.1905 Nairobi); Joseph Frederick (1907 Nairobi); Marie (1908 Nairobi-11 Mar 1909 Nairobi); Owen Patrick (6 May 1910-1995 Lambeth)
Book Reference: North, Drumkey, Gazette, EAHB 1904, Barnes, Gillett
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 - Railway Dept. - Locomotive Dept. - Loco. Shed, Carriage and Boiler Foreman - 1899
Gazette - 17/12/1902 - Plague compensation after bubonic plague in March 1902 - G. Maker - Rs 50
North - Listed with 'Officers & Subordinates' Foreman 1-4-1903; on List of 'Non-Native Residents of Nairobi' (EAM) Loco Dept. 5-9-1903; at Nairobi with wife Millie nee Farrow & son Edwin Charles (b. 3-10-1888), April 1903; Eddy enrolled at Uganda Railway School, Nairobi when it opened 20-1-1904, left to join Railway Workshops 30-6-1904; Foreman 1-4-1905; Member of the Railway Section of the EAP Volunteer Reserve June 1905
EAHB 1904 - Nairobi Residents - Maker, W.G. - Loco Dept. Uganda Railway
Nairobi South cemetery - William George Maker, died 23 April 1910 aged 37, Uganda Railway - loving thoughts will ever linger round the place where thou art laid, erected by his sorrowing wife and workmen