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Name: DOUGLASS, Margaret Russell, Mrs
Nee: dau of William Russell Bowker
Birth Date: 1882 King William's Town
Death Date: 28 Aug 1955 Durban
First Date: 1904
Profession: Arrived in Kenya with her father William Russell Bowker and lived on his farm in the Kedong Valley. In the 1920s she owned and ran the Mountains of the Moon Hotel at Fort Portal in Western Uganda. In the mid 40s built the New Malindi Hotel at Malindi.
Area: Kedong Valley
Married: 1. In Johannesburg 7 Sep 1904 Francis Wingfield Douglass (1875-1928), a flax farmer in the Trans Nzoia area (div. 1920); 2. Mr Rowland
Children: Russell Francis Bowker (1909-9 Mar 1972 Nairobi), hunter in Tanganyika; Margaret Francis (19 Nov 1905 Grahamstown) (m. C.W. Allen)
Book Reference: EAWL, Land, Bowkers
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