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Name: JORDAN, Frederick John Bounds

Birth Date: 27.7.1880 Erpingham, Norfolk

Death Date: 24.9.1931 Nairobi

First Date: 1911

Last Date: 1931

Profession: Went to EA with the Paul Rainey expedition, which used a large pack of Rhodesian Ridge-Back dogs, plus several falcons. After WW1 he and wife managed the Old Stanley Hotel and later Blue Posts Hotel

Area: Groganville, Nairobi, Thika. Red 25 - Mathari Mental Hospital, Nbi. 1930 S. Jacobs, Nbi.

Married: In King's Norton 1910 Mary Ann Clowes b. 1887 Birmingham, d. 30 Sep 1972 Watamu. She went to EA 1913 with son Fred (she later married Bertram Noble 1876-1960)

Children: Frederick (12 May 1911Stirchley, Worcs-1989 Waterfall, KwaZulu-Natal); Stanley Montague Bounds (14.5.1914 Nairobi-18 Aug 1988 Watamu)

Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 22, Red 25, Red 31, Gazette, Barnes, Leader14, Richardson

War Service: WW1 served with Mechanical Transport Section but blackwater so boarded out

General Information:

After his death Mary Ann married Bertie Noble in 1936. She died in Kenya in 1972 [wrong, 1971]                             
KAD 1922 - Warder, Lunatic Asylum
Gazette - 20/9/16 - Partnership between Francis Joseph Bullows, Charles Frederick Pratt and Frederick John Bounds Jordan as hotel keepers trading as "Blue Posts Hotel" dissolved from 13/9/16
Gazette - 9/12/14 - Liquor Licence - Transfer from Mr Chandos-Pole of Blue Posts to Messrs Pratt & Jordan of Blue Posts
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Fort Hall - F.J.B. Jordan, Blue Post, Chania Bridge
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Frederick John B Jordan, British, age 52, 4?-4-1880 / 24-9-1931 / R.I.P.
Leader14 - F.J. Jordan (Blue Posts) - Chaniabridge
Richardson 1929 - passenger on Llandaff Castle to Mombasa
Rec 22 Med. Dept, Nairobi
Ancestry Passenger list London-Mombasa 1920 F.J.B. Jordan Hotel Manager, aged 38

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