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Name: DUTHY, George Walter

Birth Date: 24 May 1885 Naini Tal, India

Death Date: 6 July 1935 Nairobi

Last Date: 1935

Profession: Coffee farmer

Area: Nairobi, 1925 P.O. Makuyu, 1930 Markabu, Makuyu

Married: In Calcutta 27 Oct 1913 Mildred Lois Hilliard b. 1881, killed in an air accident in Sicily 16 Feb 1952

Children: John Arthur (6 Aug 1916-23 June 1995 West Wittering, Sussex); Barbara Lois (1915); Isolde Anne (1920 Thrapston, Northants.)

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Women, Barnes, Wolseley-Lewis

General Information:

Women - 2002/2 - water engineer in India - farmed coffee at Makuyu.
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - George Walter Duthy, British, age 50, died 6/7/35
Wolseley-Lewis - 1930s - There were depressing tragedies. Mrs Duthie [sic] lost her husband but carried on farming to educate her two daughters which she did. One daughter, Barbara, had an accident on her bicycle in England and ran into a brick wall and disfigured herself for life. Then mother and the other daughter were coming back from England and died in an air-crash. There was no money left.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List Mildred Lois

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