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Name: McINTYRE, Alfred James
Nee: grandfather of Stan Bleazard
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1878 Everton
Death Date: 26 May 1959 Mombasa
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1959
Profession: Sawyer
Area: Gilgil
Married: In Liverpool 13 May 1900 Leah (later recorded as Leonora) Myers b. 6 Mar 1879 Liverpool, d. 1947, dau of Joseph Myers, a prominent Jewish rabbi who, upon her marriage excommunicated her
Children: Leonard Alfred (Liverpool 1901); Sidney (1903-4 Feb 1974); James (b. and d. 1905); Bernard (1912); Jennie (Bleazard, Wavertree) (1907); Lilian (Lazarus later Naismith-Jones) (1910); Lucy (1915-16 Bootle)
Book Reference: Stan Bleazard
General Information:
Stan Bleazard - Wood sawyer and saw doctor, trained Sheffield UK (apprentice & journeyman 7 years) arrived Kenya 1913 from West Africa (Gold Coast) on contract to Lord Enniskillen to manage cedar mill at Gilgil. Lived for a couple of years under canvas until thatched house built. Also worked at times for other Cole brother at Nanyuki. On the first occasion a syce met him at Nairobi railway station with a note for him to ride a mule to Naro Moru, but after a few miles decided walking was easier.
Gazette 19 Oct 1948 wife's probate
Gazette 19 Jan 1960 probate