Skip to content ↓

View entry

Back to search results

Name: THORNTON, Frederick James

image of individual

Birth Date: 1888 Stoke Damerel

Death Date: 27 Oct 1956 Nairobi

First Date: 1920

Last Date: 1956

Profession: Sanitary engineer, Nairobi; plumber

Area: Box 393, Nairobi, 1930 Box 260, Nairobi

Married: In Constantinople 28 June 1913 Winifred Philippa Hannaford b. 1890 Kingsbridge, Devon, d. 1 Apr 1950 Nairobi

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Macmillan, Barnes

General Information:

Macmillan - 1930 Thornton & Turpin, Plumbers, Sanitary and Domestic Engineers - started in 1926. Both partners - Messrs. F.J. Thornton and T. Turpin - had long and extensive experience as plumbers, sanitary and domestic engineers in England, and the fact that they are authoritative experts in all the work they undertake accounts doubtless for the development of their business at Mombasa, where they have a branch, as well as at Nairobi
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Frederick James Thornton, died 27 Oct 1956 aged 69 AND Winifred Phillipa [sic] Thornton / beloved wife of / Frederick James Thornton / and mother of Peggy / who loved her life on this earth / by her kindness to others / passed away suddenly / on 1st April 1950 / age 59 years
Gazette, 6 Dec 1938 Nairobi Voters List
Gazette 22 May 1951 probate required for Winifred Philippa Thornton d. 1 Apr 1950 by Frederick James Thornton
UK Registers of Marriages from British Consulates
1911 England Census

Back to search results