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Name: McCRAE, James Smith
Nee: bro of Andrew Ritchie And Robert Alston McCrae
Birth Date: 6 Feb 1884 Cathcart, Renfrewshire
Death Date: Nov 1956 Mexico City
First Date: 1912 with brothers
Profession: Started cabinet-making business with bros. Est sisal plantation 1918, farming 3000 acres near Naivasha with sisal
Area: Nairobi, Naivasha
Married: 1. In 1918 Nellie Louise Chapman b. 1886, d. 30 July 1937 London, poison (prev. m. John Grigg 1879-1918); 2. In London 1938 Aenid Kate Waters b. 4 Aug 1903 Bromley, Kent, d. 9 Apr 1974 London
Children: son (23 May 1922 Muthaiga)
Book Reference: Celluloid, Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Gazette, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Gillett, KAD
General Information:
Red 22 - J. McCrae, Box 291, Nairobi
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - J. Macrae, Government Road
Red Book 1912 - J.A.R. McCrae (Motors), Nairobi ?
Hut has James McCrae a 1912 1918 Longonot Ltd. bro sold to Block Estates > Nrb
Gazette 4 June 1919 probate for James Macrae [sic]
Ancestry Public Member Trees puts his death as Nov 1956 Mexico City
Celluloid - Near Naivasha ..... visited Mr & Mrs John McCrae at their sisal hemp estate, and were able to take one or two pictures of a cheetah which he allowed out of its cage to wander about the veld [? A.R. McCrae?]
Thurston - CO 533, 459/16 - 1935-36 - Proposed sisal softening factory: agreement with J. McCrae
The Mexican death cert has the man as James McCrae Smith, b. Glasgow, m. to Aenid