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Name: MALLITTE, Percy Osmond
Birth Date: 20 Jan 1875 Calcutta, India
Death Date: 8 Aug 1909 Calcutta
First Date: 1899
Profession: Permanent Way Inspector, Uganda Railway
Area: Naivasha in 1905, Mombasa
Married: In Nairobi 11.4.1903 Louise Evelyn Juliet Poy b. 24.10.1885 Mhow, India, d. 2.7.1941 Nairobi (dau of Jules Bernard Poy; she later married Edmund Daniel Birch 1872-1956)
Children: Oscar Jules (20.1.1904 Nairobi-1971 London); Alan William (14.7.1905, Makindu-18.5.1975 Bulawayo); Phyllis Marie Louise (Roberts) (11 Dec 1907 Calcutta-1997 Dacorum); Percy Osmond (18 Aug 1909 Calcutta)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, KGF, EAS, EAHB 1906, North, Red Book 1912, Web
General Information:
EAS - 22/1/1903 - I hear we have shortly to congratulate Mr Percy Mallitte upon his marriage with Miss Louise Poy in Nairobi. Mr Mallitte is one of the most capable P.W.I. On the Uganda Railway
North - Temporary Railway appt. 9-7-1898; Listed in Establishment Rolls under Engineering Dept. Permanent Way Inspector 30-6-1899; new agreement 19-1-1901; listed as services terminated 30-6-1901; listed as Permanent Way Inspector, No. 1 Maintenance Division May 1902; listed with 'Officers & Subordinates' Permanent Way Inspector 1-4-1903; Permanent Way Inspector Naivasha 1905
Red Book 1912 - P. Mallite - Nairobi
Wife (now Mrs Edmund Daniel Birch) died Nbi 2.7.1941 - Nairobi Forest Road cemetery
Cathy Day email 5 Apr 1998: My great-great-grandgrandfather came from France. He was Comté Benevent Duc de la Marche. He was a keen photographer and because of his health he was advised to go to warmer climes and went to India, possibly the Lucknow area. He changed his name to Mallitte in the late 1800s. I know nothing about my great- great-grand grandmother but they produced at least one son, maybe more. My great-garndfather was Oscar Jules Mallitte and my grandfather was Percy Osmond Mallitte. He was born around 1875 in India and married Louise Evelyn Poy in early April 1903. She was born in Bombay on 24 October 1885, her father being Jules Poy. Percy and Louise had four children: Percy, Alan my father born in Kenya in 1905, Oscar and Phyllis. They went to Kenya in the early 1900s and great-grandfather Percy died in Nairobi in August 1909. He was employed as a Permanent Way inspector for the railways in India and also when he moved to Kenya.