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Name: STOLLARD, Katharine Elizabeth, Miss

Birth Date: 1867 Chesterfield

Death Date: 17.1.1938 Ruiru

First Date: 1909

Last Date: 1938

Profession: Matron, Nairobi hospital

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Ruiru, 1920 Magomano Estate Ruiru

Book Reference: HBEA, KAD, Red 31, Hut, Bur, Kiambu Scrapbook, Barnes, Leader14, Colonial, Red Book 1912, Gazette, Barnes

General Information:

Was at one time in charge of the European Hospital in Hong Kong.
Kiambu Scrapbook - EAWL, DVP Ruiru in 1926
St. Paul's Churchyard, Kiambu Katharine Elizabeth Stollard, died 17th January 1938, aged 69
Red Book 1912 - Medical Dept - Matron - Miss K.E. Stollard - Nairobi
Gazette - 23/1/1918 - Registration of Brands - Miss Stollard, Ruiru, Kiambu - Brand ES4 - 4 Dec 1917
Gazette 1/1/1910 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Matron Nairobi Hospital - 16/9/1909
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - Katherine Elizabeth Stollard, Settler, Ruiru
HBEA 1912 - Matron, Nairobi Hospital.
KAD 1922 has Miss Stollard, Ruiru
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List
Gazette 8 Feb 1938 probate
EAS 20 Jan 1938 After some years in the nursing service in Hong Kong and the Far East she came to Kenya in 1910 to take up the post of matron of the newly built European hospital at Nairobi. On leave in Europe at the outbreak of the war she was in Brussels when the city was taken by the Germans. Determined not to remain there under those circumstances she succeeded in making an adventurous escape through the German lines disguised as a man. She returned to her work at the Nairobi Hospital where she remained till 1916 when she became matron of Sir N Macmillan's wartime hospital at Juja. It is perhaps in this capacity that she will be best remembered by many veterans of the East African campaign. The war over, she decided to retire to the estate Magomano, which she had meanwhile acquired in Ruiru. She soon built a pleasant homestead, planted coffee and stocked her land with cattle. A kindly and helpful neighbuor, a loyal and ever generous friend, she will long be remembered with affection in the district which for so many years she made her home.

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