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Name: LOXTON, Frederick George (Lance-Corporal)
Birth Date: 1886 Gillingham, Kent
Death Date: 19 Feb 1954 Southampton
First Date: 1908
Profession: Surveyor
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Brentford 1920 Alice Maude Neale b. Freshwater, Hampshire 8 Sep 1883, d. 1950 Southampton
Children: Michael Neale
Book Reference: Red Book 1912, Habari 2009, Gazette, North
War Service: RE
General Information:
Red Book 1912 - Survey Dept. - Trig and Topo Branch - Surveyor
Habari 2009 - Other early Afrikaner settlers in Kenya were ……..Fred Loxton
Habari 2009 - At the end of 1906, the Arnoldis, John de Waal and the Cloetes, joined by the Viljoens and Fred Loxton from Bethal, trekked with all their possessions to Nakuru. From there, in the beginning of 1907, Frans Arnoldi and John de Waal, accompanied by Sonny Cloete's father, Abraham Joubert and Fred Loxton travelled by ox wagon up the western wall of the Rift Valley to the Plateau (a hazardous journey lasting 2 months) where they stayed with the Van Breda brothers. Afterwards they settled on the Plateau.
Gazette 1/7/1908 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Corporal RE, Railway Survey - 11/6/1908
[CN - I think there were 2 Fred Loxtons, one a surveyor, the other South African]. See also North
The Loxtons were a large family in S. Africa