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Name: ALLANBY, Henry Walker

Nee: bro of John Blyth Walker Allanby

Birth Date: 21 Dec 1871 Bothwell, Tasmania

Death Date: 1925 Lolgorien

Nationality: Australian

First Date: 1925

Profession: Farmer

Area: Lolgorien, via Naivasha; 1930 Elburgon

Married: 1. In Pretoria 19 May 1903 Edith Berendina Thornhill b. 1883 Cradock, Eastern Cape, S. Africa, d. 22 June 1919 Cape Town; 2. In Cathcart, Eastern Cape 15 Apr 1922 Evelyn McMahon Byram b. 22 July 1894, d. Brakpan, S. Africa

Children: Stanley Thornhill Blyth (1901-1949); Norman Henry Blyth (28 Mar 1908); Gwendoline Edith Blyth (8 Nov 1913 Pretoria-1988); Athol Blyth (27 Feb 1918 Cape Town); Raymond Blyth (12 Jan 1925 Nairobi-1992); a dau.

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Smeaton, Web

General Information:

Smeaton - ……. Our guests, who had given him a pioneer's funeral on the lone veldt, were now returning from accompanying Mrs Allenby back to the fringe of civilization. How tragic was her husband's death, and why it affected us all, can be understood when it is remembered that he was the only one whose wife had faced the perils of our rough life and that even on the untamed veldt she had been content to make him a home. Now he had gone on, alone. The news distresed us; somehow it seemed all wrong that one so fortunate as he should go while many with no such blessings as he possessed were left behind.

Hut - K. Prospecting Syndicate

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