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Name: SAXTON, John Frederick
Birth Date: 1874
Death Date: Dec 1910 or Jan 1911 on voyage fronm Mombasa-UK
Nationality: Irish
First Date: 1897
Profession: Engineer in charge of the steam launch 'Ruwenzori' on Lake Victoria in 1898.
Area: Kisumu, Mombasa, Nairobi
Book Reference: Tucker, Gillett, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1907, North
General Information:
North - Uganda Railway - Mechanic Fitter for Boustead, Ridley's steam-launch 'Ruwenzori'; member of proposed EA Volunteer Force 9/10/1896, Mombasa; Local temporary Railway employment contract dated 4/9/1897; EAP PWD Yard Foreman, Nairobi 19/5/1905; Foreman at Mombasa 2/9/1905
Drumkey 1909 - Public Works Dept. - Shop Foreman, Mombasa
EAHB 1906 - Yard Foreman, PWD, Mombasa
EAHB 1907 - Foreman PWD Mombasa
Blue Book 1908-9 appt 1 Apr 1907
Ancestry Passenger list Mombasa-London 10 Dec 1910Deaths on Voyage: John Frederick Saxton, Irish, Engineer aged 36 mlarial fever superadded on leprosy, suppression of urine & heart failure [no date of death given]