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Name: FIELD, Dora, Mrs

Nee: Warshawsky, dau of Joseph Warshawsky, tailor, Russian, naturalised British 1874. She was named Deborah.

Birth Date: 1867 London

Death Date: 8 Feb 1918 Nairobi

Last Date: 1918

Area: Nairobi

Married: Louis Field b. 1858 Courland, Latvia, d. 26 June 1919 Oudtshoorn, Cape Colony, 'general merchant' (div. and he later m. Matilda ?Moskow, ?b. 1871, ?d. 13 Feb 1930 Nairobi)

Children: All born in Cape Colony. Ethel (1892); Sylvia (1893); Rudolph Jeremiah (14 June 1894 Cape Colony-8 Mar 1940 Nairobi); Charles (1896); Joseph (1898)

Book Reference: Barnes, Gazette

General Information:

Barnes - Nairobi South Cemetery - Dora Field, died 8 Feb 1918 aged 51, Mother of E. Moskow - " … erected by her sorrowing children"
Gazette 20/3/1918 - Probate and Administration in respect of Dora Field late of Nairobi who died at Nairobi on 7/2/1918. Applied for by Herbert Selig of Nairobi
She travelled to Cape Town 1904
The Warshawskys were a Russian family, Jewish, probably escaping pogroms.
1911 Census living in Richmond, Surrey

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