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Name: CORKE, Henry Thomas Peter (Dr.)
Nee: son of Henry Thomas Corke
Birth Date: 2.12.1859 Aden
Death Date: 1909 Bombay
First Date: 1902
Profession: Medical practitioner
Married: In Mhow, India 20 May 1885 Ellen Amelia Coulson b. 15.4.1865 Mazagon, Bombay. She left Corke in 1905 and m. James Arthur Yates
Children: Ethel Louise (17 July 1888 Meerut, India) (m. Fergus Erskine Rose in Mombasa 3.10.1904); Ernest Ralph (11 Dec 1894 Karachi-1972); Emma Beatrice (14 June 1886 Mhow-1911); Eva Maude (21.9.1892 Karachi, India-1980) (m. Lionel Hartley then Percy Henry Poolman)
Book Reference: Kenya Diary, North, Drumkey, Advertiser, EAHB 1907, Peter Corke, Land
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 Directory of Residents - Dr. H.G. Corke, Nairobi
Advertiser - 1/1/09 - Death - Dr. Henry Thomas Corke - in Bombay. Dr Corke belonged to the Indian Medical Service subordinate grade and had 12 years service in India. During the last outbreak of plague in Nairobi Dr. Corke rendered valuable services together with Dr. Spurrier. He had about three and a half years practice in Nairobi and remained in medical charge of Pemba Island for a couple of years.
North - Asst. Surgeon; employed at Nairobi during bubonic plague epidemic March-July 1902; at Mombasa for marriage of daughter, Ethel 3-10-1904; dep. Mombasa to start practice in Nairobi Feb 1905.
'My Wife Mrs A. Corke having left my protection against my will from the 17th instant I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE for any debts incurred from that date by her … H. Corke, Med. Practitioner Nairobi' EAS 'Notice' 22-7-1905
EAHB 1907 - H.F. Corke - Nairobi (Market Street)
Considine - European School Nairobi - Ernest Corke - 6/11/1905 - Nbi
Considine - European School Nairobi - Eva Corke - 12/2/1906 - Nbi
Kenya Diary - 1902 - Thika River .... Dr Corke arrived from Nairobi with plenty of medical stores and with an escort of 10 police and 30 Masai spearmen.
Gazette - Reference to court records for 1905 to be destroyed include cases - Mrs E.A. Corke v G.S. Morrison and v H.T.P. Corke. Also cases - H.T.P. Corke v Mrs E.A. Corke and T.B. Coulson
Land - 1906 - T.H.P. Corke - Building, 5,000 sq.ft. - Nairobi Township - 99 years lease from 1/1/1906 - Registered 6/3/1906
Daughter Ethel Louise m. Fergus Erskine Rose Mombasa 3.10.1904. Her daughter born Ethel Amelia Nairobi 19.10.1905. F.E. Rose died Bombay 11.7.1908. Ethel Louise then married Henry Greenwood, Bombay 2.100.1908
His wife born Amelia Ellen Coulson in Bombay 15.4.1865 left Corke in 1905, reverted to maiden name and married James Arthur Yates 1908/9. Son born Eric James Nairobi 22.4.1910.