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Name: CONEY, James Sharpe
Birth Date: 12 June 1884 Pancras, London
First Date: 1927
Profession: Chief Asst. to General Manager, Railways & Harbours Dept., in 1939, appointed 1929. Originally Supdt., Administrative 1927. Previous service with Cape Govt. & SA Railways from 1903-27
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Kaapstad (Cape Town) 1 June 1911 Ida Loeffler Sterry b. 1891
Children: dau J. (1915)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 31, Colonial, Dominion
General Information:
Colonial - GWR 1900-03; Cape Govt. Railways 1903-10; S. African Railways & Harbours 1910-27; Supt. (administrative) KUR&H 1927; Ch. Asst. to Gen. Manager 1929
Dominion - Public Works Department - Railway - Chief Assistant to General Manager - 1930
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - James S. Coney, Public Servant, Upper Hill Rd. And Ida L. Coney, Married woman, Upper Hill Rd., Nbi