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Name: RAPHAEL, Gertrude, Mrs
Nee: Jacobs, sister of Sammy Jacobs
Birth Date: 1883
Death Date: 24.2.1968 Durban
First Date: 1910
Profession: Social welfare
Area: Box 634, Nairobi
Married: 1. In Nairobi 31 Mar 1907 Philip Abraham Raphael (1872-1925); 2. Michael Harrtz (1866-1943)
Children: Audrey Hermione (24.10.1907); Marian Leila (Nairobi 29.4.1909 Nairobi-20.2.1910 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Land, Barnes
General Information:
Land - 1911 - Mrs G. Raphael and S. Jacobs - Buildings, 5.273 acres - Nairobi - 19/7/10 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/8/10 - Registered 3/5/11
Old Africa - 24-7-13 - Christine Nicholls - Gertrude Jacobs, sister of Sammy - As for Gertrude, she was a member of the League of Mercy from 1910 and a founder member of the Lady Northey Home and many other social welfare organisations in Kenya. She married in Mombasa, in February 1907, Philip Raphael, well known in Nairobi as a businessman, auctioneer, general merchant, cabinet-maker, wheelwright and Land Agent. He was a member of the first Convention of Associations and the Nairobi chamber of commerce. He died in 1925 and Gertrude married Michael Harrtz, an early arrival in East Africa (1901), founder of the tinsmiths Harrtz & Bell, who died in 1943.