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Name: SHEPHERD, Eleanor Kathleen Ferrar, Mrs
Nee: Binns, daughter of Archdeacon Harry Kerr Binns
Birth Date: 8 June 1883 Mombasa
Death Date: 11 July 1955 Nairobi
First Date: 1883
Last Date: 1922
Profession: Missionary
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Mombasa 30.12.1908 Dr Richard Kenneth Shepherd of the Church Missionary Society (1882-1946)
Children: Charles Duncan Ferrar (4 Dec 1909 UK-4 May 2003 Bristol); Nancy Eleanor ( 2 Aug 1911 Freretown-27 Aug 2002 Gillingham, Dorset); Richard Harry Woolley (10 July 1915 Freretown-22 July 1942 on active service, lost in aircraft over Mediterranean); John Kenneth (24 Oct 1916 Freretown-25 Feb 1932 Penselwood); Kathleen Elvina (8 May 1918 Freretown)
Book Reference: Gillett, EA & Rhodesia, North
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 28/7/55 - Mrs E.K.F. Shepherd, widow of Dr. Richard Kenneth Shepherd, a former missionary at Mzizima Hospital, Mombasa, and daughter of Archdeacon H.K. Binns, a missionary in Mombasa from 1875 to 1923, has died in Nairobi at the age of 72. Dr. and Mrs Shepherd left Kenya in 1922 and settled in Cardiff, where he died 24 years later. At the time of her death Mrs Shepherd was staying with her daughter, Mrs Nancy Shepherd, of the Community Development Department of Kenya.
Nairobi City Park cemetery Eleanor Shepherd d. 11 July 1955 aged 72 Inscription: to our / beloved mother / widow to / Dr Kenneth Shepherd / Eleanor Kathleen / Ferrar Shepherd / June 8th 1883 / July 11th 1955
1939 England and Wales Register living with husband and 2 children in Cardiff