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Name: WALBY, Horace Gardiner
Birth Date: 27 Sep 1888 Wormbridge, Herefordshire
Death Date: 27 Oct 1971 Salisbury, Wilts.
First Date: 1914
Profession: Overseer, PWD; Howse & McGeorge
Area: Nakuru, 1925 Eldoret, 1930 Nyeri, Nairobi
Married: In Nakuru 5 Oct 1922 Hilda Ann Selina Scott b. 4 Mar 1895 Edinburgh, d. 27 Dec 1970 Salisbury, Wilts.
Children: Jean Alice Emmy (Graff) (11 Aug 1926 Nyeri-23 Feb 1914 Trowbridge); Richard Scott (12 June 1930 Nyeri-4 Apr 2022 Blandford Forum); Irene Mary (twin, 12 June 1930 Nyeri-6 Apr 2012 Shaftesbury) (twins)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Baptism, Red 22, Gazette, Dominion, Rift Valley, Red 19
General Information:
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Mombasa - Walby - PWD
Dominion - Public Works Department - Divisional Staff - Assistant Engineer - 1930
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 12 Dec 1920 - H.G.M. Walby
Gazette 19/8/1914 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Foreman, PWD - 4/8/1914
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - H.G. Walby - Overseer PWD - Nakuru
Red Book 1919 - Public Works Department - Overseer - M.G. Walby
KAD 1922 - Assistant Engineer, PWD, Nakuru
Freemason 21 Dec 1918 Menengai
Kelly's for Wiltshire 1939 has Horace Gardiner Walby as farmer, Upton Farm, Berwick St John, Wilts.
Gazette 24 July 1928 Horace Gardiner Walby to be Executive Engineer, PWD, from 6 Feb 1928