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Name: HALE, Dorothea Muriel Hillman, Mrs

Birth Date: 31 Oct 1896 possibly S. Africa

Death Date: 7 Jan 1981 Nairobi

First Date: after 1920

Profession: Farmer, dairy manager. Honorary Member of Kenya Branch of British Legion which she joined in 1937

Area: Box 280 Nairobi, Box 40280 Nairobi

Married: 1. In S. Africa Max Hurwitz b. 1894 Lithuania, d. 16 Nov 1956 Boksburg, S. Africa (div.); 2. In Johannesburg 31 Mar 1920 George Hillman Hale b. 1863 Birmingham, d. 1 July 1949 Queenstown, Cape Province (prev. m. Elizabeth Kate Garton née Prior 1857-1918)

Children: Yvonne d'Auray (31 Dec 1916 S. Africa)

Book Reference: Legion

General Information:

Gazette - 24/1/1933 - Brand registered in quarter ending 31/12/1933 - Mrs Dorothy Hale - A1Y
Gazette 4 May 1984 Dorothy M. Hale, Box 40579, Nairobi
Gazette 22 Apr 1941 Dissolution of partnership between James Laidlaw-Richardson and Dorothy Muriel Hillman-Hale in dairying business in Nairobi - she to carry it on alone.
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Miss Dorothy Hales [sic], Dairy Manager, Ngong Road, Box 280, Nbi
Great-granddaughter Ingrid Dugand I remember my mother telling me that she bought her land in Karen from Karen Blixen and removed the coffee that Karen had tried to grow and put cows in instead.  She had a dairy called Park Grange. I remember being told that when Lord Erroll’s body was found it was by Dorothea’s milkmen on their way to work - that was her land.

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