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Name: GOOD, John Henry 'Jack'

Birth Date: 20 Mar 1871 Phale, Dunmanway, Cork, Ireland

Death Date: 11 July 1944 Fort Ternan

First Date: 1922

Profession: Train guard

Area: Chania Bridge

Married: Nancy Pakes b. 21 Oct 1892 Keighley, Yorks., d. S. Africa

Children: Hester Maida Millicent (Tunmer) (1918 Bandon, Ireland); Stowell; Jack; Ian Henry (1 Sep 1915 Bandon, Cork)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Bobs Harries, KAD, Red 31, Hut, Red 22

General Information:

Bobs Harries - History of Thika - Twice a week, Monday and Friday, a Farmers' train was run from Thika to Nairobi and back. Many farmers used to give Mr Good, the permanent guard of the train, cheques and when the train returned in the evening Mr Good used to hand out bags of money all along the line.
Red 25 has John Henry Good, Chania Bridge
Red 22 - J.H. Good, Githandi, Chania Bridge
Red 31 has J.H. Good, Hoey's Bridge,
Hut the same AND John H. Good 1925 Githandi Thika
Campling - Kakamega 1930s - Milly Good, daughter of Mr & Mrs Good. Mrs Good was an enthusiastic amateur geologist and very keen on studying rock formation; she walked the hills and valleys all day long, convinced that one day she would make the big strike. Her husband was a quiet man, not particularly interested in prospecting. Their daughter Milly and sons Stowell, Jack and Ian were away at school in Eldoret but joined them in the school holidays. Milly was a very pretty girl, uninterested in mining and very bored with Kakamega and was always glad of visits from Keith [Campling] and Harry [Tunmer] Milly ran off with Harry Tunmer and married him. Her mother was very upset as she did not consider 'wild' Harry a suitable husband for her daughter. …… the marriage lasted many years and produced 2 sons and a daughter and it was only when the daughter Gale grew up that Milly decided to leave Kenya, no doubt remembering from her own girlhood that the Kenyan bush was no place in which to bring up a young girl. She took her daughter to school in Natal where her own mother, by then widowed, was already living.
Ancestry Family Tree calls him Joseph Henry Good
 

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