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Name: TURNER, George James

Birth Date: 23 July 1885 Butleigh, Somerset

Death Date: 16 May 1959 Nakuru

First Date: 1911

Profession: Farmer. 1916 Somerset Farm, Soy; farmed at Nakuru and called homestead 'Butleigh'

Area: Nakuru, KAD 1922 - Noigam Est. Kitale, 1930 Eldoret

Married: In Glastonbury 26 Sep 1910 Edith May 'Molly' Murrow b. 1882 Glastonbury, d. 17 Mar 1972 New Zealand

Children: George Lawrence (26 Jan 1912 Wells-16 Aug 1888 Taunton); Philip Bertram; Albert Murrow (28 Mar 1916 Somerset Farm, Soy-17 Apr 1994 Tauranga, N. Zealand); Katherine Ruth (Cameron) (20 Sep 1917 Farm 25 Trans Nzoia-14 Mar 2016 Christchurch, N. Zealand); Joan May (29 Apr 1919 'Butleigh' Eldoret-25 May 2010 Worksop)

Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Foster

General Information:

Foster - 1949 represented Nakuru on European Council of Diocese of Mombasa
Gazette - 24/9/1924 - Dissolution of Partnership between George James Turner and Charles Howard Pitchford heretofore carrying on business in the Trans Nzoia as Farmers, Planters and Millers under the style or firm of Turner and Pitchford
Red 25 has G.J.S. Turner, Noigam Estate, Hoey's Bridge.
Hut has George & Molly Turner partner with Kummer. She was a Deputy Vice-Pres. of EAWL
Gazette - 30/5/1933 - Bankruptcy Ordinance - George James Turner of Nakuru, Butcher - debtors' petition
Gazette 7 July 1959 probate

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