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Name: TANFANI, Silvio Gastone Pietro
Birth Date: 3 Feb 1886 Florence
Death Date: 4 Dec 1961 Dar es Salaam
First Date: 1906
Profession: Frigerio & Co
Area: Box 325, Nairobi, 1922 Kikuyu, 1908 Kisumu
Married: Mollie Elizabeth Mortimer b. 13 Feb 1892 Perth, W. Australia, d. 31 Mar 1967 Perth (?pre. m. William Mowlam 1887-1967)
Children: Enzo Cecil (8 July 1919 Como, Italy-22 Sep 2010 Nairobi); Marion Nella (14 Sep 1921 Ruaraka); ?Sylvia Claire Tanfani
Book Reference: KAD, Hut, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1907, Gazette, North
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 - Directory of Residents - S. Tamfani, Kisumu
EAHB 1907 - Kisumu
Gazette 30/5/1917 - Notice by L. Frigerio & Co. that Silvio Tanfani hitherto in their employ has ceased to be so employed.
Hut has Count Tanfani AND S. Tamfani, 1908 Kisumu
Red Book 1912 has E. Tinifani
He was Italian Vice-Consul in Tanzania.
He went to Australia 1927. In WW2 he was in Loveday Internment Camp, Melbourne (as he was Italian). In 1933 he was Consular Agent for Italy in Queensland.
His son Enzo 'Bwana Safari' founded the East African Rally - see Michael Crouch, 'Bwana Safari, the Biography of Enzo Cecil Tanfani', 2003
See Mowlam, William entry for possible 1st marriage of Mollie Elizabeth. Possibly Elizabeth Mowlam and Mollie Elizabeth Tanfani were two different people, or her dau. Sylvia Claire Tanfani was born before she was divorced from William Mowlam.]