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Name: RAYNE, Mary Anne, Mrs

Nee: Chambers

Birth Date: 1841 Scotland

Death Date: 1.8.1916 Ruiru

First Date: 1903

Last Date: 1916

Profession: Widowed mother of Harry, John Allen and Mary, she died in EA in 1916

Married: In Berwick on Tweed 1860 James Rayne (1840 Ireland-30 Oct 1866 Ngapara, Waitaki, New Zealand)

Children: Bartholomew (1884 Scotland); James (1866 Sedgefield, Durham-23 Sep 1931 Dunedin); William (3 Mar 1869 Willington, Northumberland-25 May 1946 Kakanui, Waitaki, NZ); John Allen (1870 Scotland-15 Dec 1920 Carterton, New Zealand); Henry A. 'Harry' (16 Aug 1879 New Zealand-2 Sep 1950 Shere, near Guildford); Herbert; Mary Cecilia (Cullinan) (1876); Henry A. (christened Patrick16 Aug 1879 New Zealand-2 Sep 1950 Shere, near Guildford); Nellie (5 Nov 1884 adopted)

Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, Advertiser, Gazette

General Information:

Advertiser - 4/9/1908 - Mrs Rayne, living in a house on Victoria St. had Rs. 100 stolen

Gazette - 15/11/16 - Probate & Admin. - Mary Ann Rayne of Ruiru who died at Ruiru 1/8/16. Applied for by Mary Cecilia Cullinan of Ruiru - see Harry Gould Cullinan entry for daughter Mary

Living in Waitaki, Otago in 1896

It was probably the dau. Mary who ran Rayne's Masonic Hotel in Nairobi.

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