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Name: SPENCE, Magnus Thorfinn

Birth Date: 2 Feb 1872 Cape Town

Death Date: 1947 Barnstaple

First Date: 1914

Profession: Surveyor

Area: Londiani, Hut M. Spence Eldoret AND Capt. M. Spence Farm 886 Nanyuki

Married: 1. In Cape Town 1900 Mary Castell b. 2 Oct 1874 Glasgow, d. 4 Feb 1947 Chipping Norton; 2. In Fulham, London 26 July 1921 Violet Edith Williams b. 2 Dec 1890 Stoke Newington, d. 4 Jan 1983 Huntingdon; 3. Elizabeth b. 1891, d. 2 July 1965 Devon

Children: 1. Maggie (1890 Glasgow); Jean (1892 England); Annie Mary (1893 Plymouth); John (1900 Glasgow); Lilla Anna Florence Marie (Welby-Everard) (27 Mar 1905 Bulawayo-13 Dec 1999 Caythorpe, Lincs.); Magnus Kenneth (10 May 1906 Bulawayo-19 May 1993 Gisborne, N. Zealand); John Stewart St George (23 Apr 1909 Bulawayo-5 Sep 1979 Dannevirke, N. Zealand); Monica Margaret Bridget Grant (Griffiths) (6 Jan 1912 Bulawayo-10 Mar 2001 Tauranga, NZ); Bettina Playfair Gill (Steel) (1914 Fulham-16 May 1881 Norwich)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Gazette

General Information:

Gazette - 10/2/15 - Partnership between Magnus Spence and Thomas Jarvis Murray at Nakuru as Licensed Surveyors, dissolved 17/12/14
Gazette 7/9/1921 - Petition for Insolvency - Magnus Spence of Eldoret
Red 25 has R.M. Spence, Kisuani, Soy.
Red 31 has R.M. Spence, Hoey's Bridge,
Hut - R.M. Spence 1925 Kisuani Hoey's Bridge

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