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Name: KEELING, Harriet Mary, Mrs
Nee: Wilcox
Birth Date: 1876
Death Date: 27.3.1945 Nairobi
First Date: 1904
Area: Nakuru, Elmenteita
Married: At Mombasa Cathedral 15 Nov 1906 William Henry Keeling (1865-1931)
Children: Eric Charles (11.1.1909 Nairobi-3.2.1909 Naivasha); and all leading sportswomen: Dorothy Mary (Wood) (17 July 1910 Bridgnorth, Shropshire-5 Mar 1983 Nairobi); Hilda Kitson (Robb) (17 Mar 1912 Elmenteita-1989 Johannesburg); Helen Masfen (Allardice) (18 Apr 1914 Elmenteita-18 July 1991 Cape Town); Mollie (Goldhawk) (19.3.1919-Aug 2008 Oxfordshire); Phyllis (5 Sep 1920 Nakuru)
Book Reference: Pioneers, SKP, Barnes
General Information:
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived 1906 - Elmenteita
Nakuru North cemetery - Harriet Mary Keeling (Molly) who died at Nairobi on 27/3/1945 aged 69 years, of 'Congreve' Elmenteita where they settled in 1904, wife of William Keeling
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List
The daughters were all leading sportswomen.
Another son was possibly Arthur Hugh, who died14 May 1918 aged one and a half, at Elmenteita (UK Foreign and Overseas Registers)
Another son was possibly Arthur Hugh, who died14 May 1918 aged one and a half, at Elmenteita (UK Foreign and Overseas Registers)