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Name: COX, Walter

Nee: nephew of William Penn Cox

Birth Date: 1887 Leicester

Death Date: 27.9.1952 Nairobi

First Date: 1924

Last Date: 1952

Profession: Coffee planter

Area: Kalamu Estate, Thika

Married: Edna Millicent b. 1890, d. 22.4.1979 Thika

Book Reference: Hut, Ruiru, Barnes

General Information:

Ruiru - Walter Cocks, 45, d. 1952, Planter, Kalamu Thika, joined Lodge 2/7/1932

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Edna Millicent Cox, British, age 89, died 22/4/79 and Walter Cox, British, age 64, died 27/9/52

Web - Photo of plaque on Thika clocktower reads - "In loving memory of Walter Cox of Leicester and Kalamu"

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List

Gazette 22 Jan 1979 wife's probate

Nat Probate Calendar

Ancestry Passenger list Cape Town-London 1914 he is newspaper proprietor, travelled with wife

1911 England Census for Leicester