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Name: SMART, William Henry
Nee: bro of Arthur Thomas and Benjamin Tilley Smart
Birth Date: 1876 Dudley, Staffs
Death Date: 24.1.1944 Nakuru
Nationality: British
First Date: 1899
Last Date: 1944
Profession: Winding engine driver. Initially a Construction Engineer, Uganda Railway, retired in 1912 and settled with his wife and family at Nakuru as butcher and remained there until his death
Area: Nakuru, 1909 Elburgon, Drumkey - Mombasa
Married: Ada
Children: ?Madeline (28.4.1895)
Book Reference: Gillett, Barnes, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, North, Drumkey, Red 22, Descending, Advertiser, Gazette, SKP, Red Book 1912, Barnes
General Information:
Considine - New European School Nairobi - Madeline Smart - b. 28/4/1895 - 12/9/1910 - Duke St
North - Uganda Railway - Winding Engine Driver; Land Grant application 26/10/1903, near Nairobi
Descending - Photograph of "Mr M. Gallagher, with the first three Incline Drivers Messrs Shutt, Smart snr., Smart jnr., lowering the first locomotive. Mr John Hudson who arrived in October 1897 should have been in the party.
Advertiser - Friday April 2, 1909 - Government School Prizegiving - Infants (Junior) Class 2 - Madeline Smart
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nakuru - W.H. Smart (British), Butcher, Nakuru
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived Nov 1899
Red Book 1912 - W.H. Smart - Nairobi
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - W.H. Smart - Butcher - Nakuru and Ada Smart - Married - Nakuru
Barnes - Nakuru North Cemetery - W.H. Smart, died 24/1/1944
Mills Railway - Escarpment - Winding Engines - The winding engines worked well and their crews, Alderson [sic], Hosie, McLean, Shutt, Stuart, Smart, Spence and Thom "were all comfortably housed".
Barnes Nakuru North cem W.H. Smart died 24 Jan 1944