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Name: CRAMER, Peter John
Birth Date: 10.2.1880 Colon, Eastern Cape, S. Africa
Death Date: 15.2.1919 Ruiru, accidentally shot
Nationality: death notice in UK Overseas Register says Dutch
First Date: Sep 1907
Last Date: 1919
Profession: A keen hunter, he did many safaris, and then took up farming. Engineer
Area: Nairobi, 1914 Molo; Murera Estate Ruiru
Married: Margaret Louisa Zeeman b. 1882, d. 1940 (later m. Frederic Naudé Haarhoff 1883-1962)
Children: Martin John (Feb 1904); Hannah Anna Gertrude (m. James Wallace Young) (11.7.1905 Nairobi); J. Margaret Louisa (1915 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, EAMR, Drumkey, Advertiser, Gazette, Barnes, North, Leader14
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - MGS 7/9/14 - Armourer Sergt. 8/11/14
General Information:
SE - P.J. Cramer - Sept 1907
Advertiser - Friday April 2, 1909 - Government School Prizegiving - Infants (Junior) Class 1 - Martin Cramer
Advertiser - mentioned in case of Crown v Stocker September 1909 - heard a police whistle when in bed on the night in question and going out and finding Corp. Hillyer on the ground.
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Njoro - P.J. Cramer (British), Sawyer
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - P.J. Cramer, Dutch, age ?, died 15/2/19
North - Engineer - arr. Mombasa from Lourenco Marques with wife & baby son, Martin John (b. Feb 1904) 11-4-1905; firearm registered at Nairobi April-June 1905; daughter born, Hannah 11-7-1905; employer's Game Licence Nairobi Oct-Dec 1905
Gazette 28/5/1919 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Peter John Cramer, late of Ruiru, who died at Ruiru on 15/2/1919. Applied for by John Usher Jones of Lumbwa.
Considine - New European School Nairobi - Martin J. Cramer - b 23/3/1904 - 12/9/1910 - Railway Quarters, Nbi
Considine - New European School Nairobi - Hannah A.G. Cramer - b. 11/7/1905 - 12/9/1910 - Railway Quarters, Nbi