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Name: STEPHENS, John Rees

Birth Date: 1887 Bridgnorth, Shropshire

Death Date: 5 June 1954 ambushed and shot on road by Mau Mau in Nyeri district

First Date: 1918

Profession: Started the well known clothing business of J.R. Stephens & Co in 1921. Retired from the business in 1947.

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Box 233, Nairobi

Married: 1. Agnes Smith b. 1882, d. 24.4.1924 Nairobi; 2. Minnie Alice b. 1877 [?1873]

Children: Ronald James (3 Mar 1921 Nairobi-1987); Francis David (21 Sep 1917 Nairobi- 22 Feb 1956 Kampala); John Rees (25 Sep 1915)

Book Reference: Kenya - A New Nation, Red 25, Red 31, Macmillan, Gazette, Harmony, Barnes

General Information:

Macmillan - 1930 - J.R. Stephens and Co. Ltd., Tailors and Outfitters - ……. Their clientele is particularly noteworthy, including Government House, and they have been honoured with the patronage of the Duke and Duchess of York. They do a good deal of work in connection with polo and racing outfits. All the cutting is attended to personally by Mr J.R. Stephens, the proprietor of the business, whose expert skill is the result of long experience of his trade, in which he was trained in England. …. The business was started in 1918 by Mr J.R. Stephens, who had been in charge of the tailoring department of a large local concern which went into liquidation in that year.
Red 22 - J.R. Stephens (Late Cearn's), Government Rd., Nairobi - Gentlemen's Outfitters
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Dagoretti - J. Stephens
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 5/4/26, Killed by Mau Mau May 1954 - John Rees Stephens
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List
Barnes - St. Peter's Nyeri Cemetery - John Rees Stephens, killed in action 6 June 1954 - unforgettable unforgotten
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Agnes Stephens, British, age 42, died 24/4/24
Gazette - 10/9/1924 - Probate and Administration - Agnes Stephens late of Nairobi who died at Nairobi on 24 April 1924. Applied for by John Rees Stephens of Nairobi.
An Andrew Stephens aged 4 was killed by panga by Mau Mau on 4 Apr 1954 at Atwell's estate, Kiambu - any relation?
Gazette 11 June 1955 probate for John Ress [sic] Stephens who d. Nyeri 5 June 1954 required by John Ress Stephens and Ada Florence Bemfrey Stephens
 

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