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Name: WILBY, George Lewis
Birth Date: 30 Dec 1896 Tadcaster
Death Date: 1 Sep 1984 Wells, Brit. Columbia
First Date: 1930
Profession: Engineer
Area: Miwani
Married: In Kenya 1930 Angelina Marie Van Rooyen b. 25 July 1913 Kenya, d. 21 Sep 2004 Portsmouth (dau. of Gerhardus Johannes Van Rooyen)
Children: Carole (Fralic) (22 Dec 1940 Kisumu-23 Nov 2018); Yvonne; Clive
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut
War Service: RFA
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Nyanza Voters List
Nat Probate Calendar
Ancestry He was born in Yorkshire in 1896. When he was 16 he joined the Royal Horse Artillery and fought during the First World War. After the war, he emigrated to Canada where he worked as an engineer for a few years. He moved back to England, and from there went to East Africa to the Miwani Sugar Plantation as an assistant to the chief engineer. It was there that he met and married Mary Van Rooyen, his wife of 53 years. Wilby lived and worked in Africa until 1982. He and his wife moved to Wales to be with their daughter Carole and her family.