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Name: BELL, Thomas
Nee: bro of Simon Kemp Bell
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1889 Hamilton, Scotland
Death Date: 25.4.1950 Nairobi
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1950
Profession: Joined Simon Harrtz in his tinsmith business which later carried the name of Harrtz & Bell, Engineers and Metal Works, Nairobi. Company director
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1915 Ethel May Noon b. 1893 Basford, Notts., d. 22 Apr 1949 Nairobi
Children: Jack (1912); Thomas Mitchell (11 Jan 1917 Nairobi-1 Feb 2000 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 25, EAWL, Barnes, Red 31, Macmillan, Red 22, Gazette, Barnes, Leader14, Red 19
General Information:
Source:- Mrs J. Butcher
Macmillan - 1930 - Harrtz and Bell Ltd., Tinsmiths, Plumbers, Tank Makers, Metal Workers, Sanitary Engineers etc. - The business was started in 1904 by Mr Harrtz, who was joined in partnership in 1912 by Mr Bell, the firm finally becoming a limited liability company.
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - T. Bell, Hartz and Bell
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Ethel May Bell, British, age 55, died 22/4/49 and Thomas Bell, British, age 60, died 25/4/50.
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Thomas Bell - Tinsmith, Valley Road
Red Book 1919 - T. Bell - Harrtz & Bell, Nairobi
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Thomas Bell, Box 185, Nbi and Ethel May Bell, Kikuyu Rd., Nbi
Gazette 19 July 1949 wife's probate
Gazette 11 July 1950 probate
He was also the bro of Rhoda Margaret Bell (m. William Gow and David Epstein), Rita Forrest Bell (m. James Davidson Lawson) and Mary Kemp Bell (m. Robert Reid Oswald)