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Name: NORRIE, George Edward Moke (Major)
Nee: son of George Louis Augustus Moke and Ann Margaret Norrie
Birth Date: 1 Mar 1858 New York
Death Date: 11 Mar 1920 Kensington, London
First Date: 1909
Profession: Sportman
Area: Entebbe
Married: In Kensington 3 Jan 1893 Beatrice Stephen b. 1874 Kensington, d. 8 July 1933 Hethersett, Norfolk
Children: Charles Willoughby Moke (21 Sep 1893 Kensington-25 May 1977 Wantage, 1st Baronet Norrie); Dorothy Beatrice (Kerans) (12 Aug 1894 Bentworth, Hants.-13 Sep 1939 Westonbirt, Glos.); George Stuart (1897 Kensington-7 Oct 1916 France, killed in action Bancourt, Pas de Calais)
Book Reference: Drumkey, Sportsmen, Web
War Service: Boer War
School: Haileybury, Brasenose Coll. Oxford
General Information:
Sportsmen - Major George Edward Moke Norrie was born in New York, and educated at Haileybury and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has shot in Ceylon, Alaska, the Rockies, Somaliland, Uganda and British East Africa.
Web - George Edward Moke seems to have given up the law, as he was later Major George Edward Moke Norrie, having changed his name, for reasons that are not clear, before Willoughby was born. In the 1901 census, Beatrice Norrie is living in Brighton at age 26 as the head of household, with her widowed mother Eleanor, her three children; Willoughby Norrie, Dorothy Norrie, George Norrie, and eight servants. Presumably her husband was away from home.
Changed his name in 1893.