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Name: THORPE, Edmund Wells

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Birth Date: 25 Sep 1906 Exeter

Death Date: 2 Mar 1997 Potter County, Texas, USA

First Date: 1928

Profession: Clerk, Prisons Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1933. Probation Officer in 1953. Coffee planter 1958

Area: Nairobi, Hut - 1952 Lyntano Estate Kiambu

Married: 1. 1933 Lillian Mary 'Johnnie' Walker b. 1906; 2. Jean Nadine Bowie b. 24 Mar 1916 Amarillo, Texas, d. 30 Dec 1998 Amarillo

Children: Joan Wells (Root) (18.1.1937 Nairobi- murdered 13 Jan 2006 Naivasha)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Hut, Gazette

General Information:

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List
Thorpe was a banker who went to Kenya. Later became a coffee planter - Lyntano farm. Also led photo safaris

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