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Name: POWIS, Harold

Nee: bro of Gwendoline Powis, son of Smith Powis

Birth Date: 1893 Stoke on Trent

Death Date: 11 Aug 1964 Bellville, S. Africa

First Date: 1920

Last Date: 1964

Profession: KUR guard; 1953 Traffic Manager

Area: Nakuru

Married: Hilda Marion b. 1895, d. 28 July 1987 Cape Province, S. Africa

Children: Anthony Harold Smith (1928-30 Aug 1947 Nairobi); Margaret (1922); Doreen (1927); Thelma (1935)

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Barnes

General Information:

Red 22 - Nairobi B
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Harold Powis, buried 9 Sep 1964 aged 71 AND Anthony Harold Smith Powis, died 30 Aug 1947 aged 19, buried in the same plot.
Gazette - 17/3/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Guard, K & U Rly - H. Powis
Gazette 8 Dec 1964 probate says he d. 11 Aug 1964 at Bellville, S Africa
Nat Probate Calendar
Blue Book 1926 appt as ticket examiner 26.1.1923
Ancestry Passenger List 19 July 1920 London-Mombasa, went to Kenya with Smith Powis aged 51, clothier, and Gwendolin aged 18  - he was a Tailor's Manager then.
?married Doris Davis in Coventry in 1915

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