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Name: LAZARUS, Alexander 'Alec'
Nee: bro of Hyman 'Jack' and Samuel Lazarus
Birth Date: 1873 London
Death Date: 1.11.1916 Manchester
First Date: 1906
Last Date: 1916
Profession: Started 1st hairdressing business
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In London 1900 Harriet Simons b. 1873 Germany/Poland; 2. In Nairobi 1910 Frances Rose 'Fanny', gifted musician from Austria (later Mrs Sheppard) b. 25.8.1894, d. 20.11.1959
Children: 1. Henry
Book Reference: Gillett, Drumkey, Advertiser, EAHB 1907, Glimpses, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Gazette, North
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 - Hairdresser - Grant's Buildings, Nairobi
Advertiser - 10/7/1908 - Mr Lazarus, Barber, in Grants Buildings burgled
Advertiser - 12/3/1909 - Advert - Alec Lazarus - B.E.A. Toilet Saloon (Hairdresser)
Glimpses - The year 1906 saw more arrivals of Jews from South Africa. ………… The Lazarus brothers came, Alec, Sam and Jack; Alec started a barbershop and the first ladies' hairdressing salon in the town, Jack became "the furniture man", while Sam worked for many years at Austin's Auction Mart.
Glimpses - Second Jewish wedding in Nairobi between Alec Lazarus, who had come out in 1906 and started the first hairdressing salon in town, and a woman whose name is not recorded but who is remembered as a gifted musician from Austria.
Leader14 - Business Register - A. Lazarus, Hairdresser, Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - A. Lazarus - Nairobi
Gazette 17/1/1917 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Alec Lazarus, late of Nairobi, who died at Manchester on 1/11/1916. Applied for by Jack Lazarus and Mitchell Haartz of Nairobi
North says he arrived 1906 'with wife and son Henry'. [did this wife die?] Came from Australia
Nairobi Langata cemetery in loving memory / of / Frances Rose / Sheppard b. 25.8.1894, d. 20.11.1959