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Name: MATTHEWS, Oliver Percival

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Photo Source: East African Standard 11 Oct 1924

Nee: uncle of Mrs Lorna Newcomb

Birth Date: 1875 London

Death Date: 23 July 1929 South Kavirondo, blackwater fever

First Date: 1925

Last Date: 1929

Profession: Accountant. Manager, Standard Bank of SA, Kisumu 1921

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Suna, S. Kavirondo

Married: 1. In Nairobi 8 July 1916 Margaret Williamson, drowned with son Christian 1918, torpedoed in ship Galway Castle; 2. Florence Louisa Charlotte Wilkinson bapt. 28.8.1879 Cheam, d. 1964 Brighton, Sussex

Children: son (16 Mar 1917 Edinburgh-1918); Pauline (15 Nov 1920 Nairobi-2007 Bishops Stortford); dau. (10 Nov 1921 Nairobi)

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Jambo 64, Hut, Gazette

General Information:

Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - O.P. Matthews - Accountant, Standard Bank - Nakuru
Hut - Kenya Prospecting Syndicate

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