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Name: BROWNE, Charles Edward (Major)
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1877 Hunslet, Leeds
Death Date: 22 Oct 1941 Nairobi
First Date: 1919
Profession: Furniture manufacturer. c/o Watkins & Stevens. Red 25 - Trust Chambers
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Bridlington 18 June 1903 Selina Chippendale b. Leeds 19 Dec 1876, d. 1942
Children: Ethel Eliza ( Dec 1904 Scholes, Yorks.); Muriel Brown (1907 Scholes); Margery (1910 Jamaica); Nancy Lina (17 Mar 1912 Kingston, Jamaica-1989 Nanyuki) (Noon)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Red 22, Barnes, Gazette
War Service: 2nd Boer War; Royal Engineer in WW1
General Information:
Red 22 - Major C.E. Browne, Box 453, Nairobi
Red 22 - C.E. Browne Ltd., Box 453, Nairobi - General Agents, Builders, Furniture Manufacturers
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Charles Edward Browne, British, age 66, died 22/10/41
Gazette 7/9/1921 - Dissolution of Partnership between Charles Edward Browne and Henry Anthony Watkin carrying on business as furniture manufacturers, cabinet makers and merchants under the style or firm of Watkin and Stephens. Dissolved by mutual consent and business carried on by Charles Edward Browne under the same name.
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Charles Edward Browne, Civil Engineer, Ngong Rd., Nbi and Muriel Browne, Spinster, Box 680, Nbi and Nancy Mira Browne, Spinster, Box 680, Nbi and Selina Browne, Married woman, Box 680, Nbi ?