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Name: ROSSENRODE, James Henry

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Birth Date: 8 Oct 1870 India

Death Date: 13 Jan 1917 Jhansi, India

Nationality: British

First Date: 1899

Last Date: 1917

Profession: Engine driver on Uganda Railway. Uganda Railway Guard

Area: Mombasa, Nairobi

Married: In Jhelum, Bengal 11 June 1895 Jessie Elizabeth Phillips b. 19 Dec 1870 Chr, Amritsar, India, d. 27 Dec 1914 Nairobi

Children: Emma Constance (9.9.1896-15.6.1972 Brisbane)(Coulson); John Cecil (10 Jan 1899 Bengal-1962); Harold James (23 May 1902); Mona Ellen (Cottar) (21 Sep 1904 Rawalpindi-1981); Dennis Vernon (1908-18 Apr 1909)

Book Reference: Mrs P. Cottar, North, Gazette, EAHB 1904, Barnes, Paddy Curtis

War Service: Injured driving a train over a bridge which Germans blew up in Kenya in WW1

General Information:

Issued with Bird Licence July & Sept. 1901
Gazette - 3/2/15 - Probate & Admin of Jessie Rossenrode, late of Nairobi, married woman who died 27/12/14 at Nairobi, by James Henry Rossenrode
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - J. Rossenrode, Uganda Railway
North - Engine Driver, Railway appt 1/2/1899; not listed with English Subordinates Dec 1899; Driver Loco Dept 31/3/1901; owner of hotel and general store at Nairobi with Mesrop MacJohn 1901; Hotel & store sold to Tommy Wood 2/11/1901; Engine Driver May 1902; Selected to drive the Makindu-Nairobi-Makindu sectors of the special train taking Joseph Chamberlain from Mombasa to Railhead & back 15-19/12/1902; 'Officers & Subordinates' Driver 1/4/1903; 3 months' notice due to expire 31/7/1903; on list of 'Principal Inhabitants of Nairobi …. Victoria Street' (EAM) 20/9/1903
EAHB 1904 - Nairobi Residents - Rossenrode, J.H. - Victoria Street
Barnes - Nairobi South Cemetery - Mrs Jessie Rosenrade [sic] born 9 Dec 1872, died 27 Dec 1914 aged 42
Gazette 24/10/1917 - Probate and Administration in respect of J.H. Rossenrode who died at Jhansi on 13/1/1917
Gazette - 1st Class Engine Driver - J.H. Rossenrode
 
 

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