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Name: RENTON, Clementine Harriett Ruth, Mrs
Nee: Claridge
Birth Date: 11.3.1885 Weymouth
Death Date: 28.4.1960 Mombasa
First Date: 1909
Last Date: 1960
Profession: Appointed as a schoolteacher, Govt. School Nairobi; she taught there for over 15 years. After her marriage to Mr MacDonald she lived at Kericho and was Post Mistress there for many years
Area: Nairobi, Kericho, Tanganyika
Married: 1. John McDonald b. 1895; 2. Mr Renton
Children: Margaret (1917); Roma (1920)
Book Reference: Hut, Red 31, Gillett, Barnes, HBEA, Colonial, Red Book 1912
General Information:
Some years after the death of her husband she married Mr Renton and went to live in Tanganyika. On his death she returned to Nairobi to be near her married daughters.
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Clementine Harriett Ruth Renton, buried 30 Apr 1960 age 76, Coast General Hospital, Coronary Thrombosis
Colonial 1912 - School Mistress - Miss Claridge
Red Book 1912 - Education Dept. - Assistant Mistress "A" School Nairobi - Miss Claridge
HBEA 1912 - 2nd Mistress 'A', Education Dept.
Gazette 6 June 1961 probate
Ancestry Passenger list Durban-London 22 Sep 1921 - spelt McDonald
Hut has Mrs Clementina McDonald previously Mrs Renton née Claridge arrived 1909 Postmistress 1926 Kericho