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Name: HUMPHREYS, Edwin John
Birth Date: 1861 Marylebone
Death Date: 26 Nov 1917 Mombasa, aortic disease
Last Date: 1917
Profession: Planter
Area: Ruiru
Married: In Cape Town 4 Feb 1904 Susannah Blanche Burke b. 1851 London, d. 1929 S. Africa
Children: Sidney John (24 June 1876 Kimberley-13 May 1951 Pietermaritzburg)
Book Reference: Barnes, Gazette
War Service: RASC
General Information:
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - John Edwin Humphreys, JP, Planter, died 24 Nov 1917, age 56, Hotel Metropole, Heart Failure. Inscription: sacred / to the memory of / my dearly beloved husband / John Edwin / Humphreys J.P. / Died November 24th 1917
Gazette 11/9/1918 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Edwin John Humphreys, late of Ruiru, who died at Mombasa on 25/11/1917. Applied for by Ignatius Marcus of Nairobi.
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers says he died on 26 Nov.