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Name: McINTYRE, Alfred James
Nee: grandfather of Stan Bleazard
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1878 Everton
Death Date: 26 May 1959 Mombasa
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1959
Profession: Sawyer
Area: Gilgil
Married: In Liverpool 13 May 1900 Leah (later recorded as Leonora) Myers b. 6 Mar 1879 Liverpool, d. 2 Nov 1947, dau of Joseph Myers, a prominent Jewish rabbi who, upon her marriage excommunicated her
Children: Leonard Alfred (21.8. 1901 Liverpool-1980 Nairobi); Sydney (20 Aug 1903 Liverpool-4 Feb 1974 Worthing); James (b. and d. 1905); Bernard (1912); Jennie (Bleazard, Wavertree, Atherton) (1907 West Derby); Lilian (Lazarus later Naismith-Jones) (1910 Chester); Lucy Dorothy (1915 West Derby-1916 Bootle)
Book Reference: Stan Bleazard
General Information:
Stan Bleazard - Wood sawyer and saw doctor, trained Sheffield UK (apprentice & journeyman 7 years) arrived Kenya 1913 from West Africa (Gold Coast) on contract to Lord Enniskillen to manage cedar mill at Gilgil. Lived for a couple of years under canvas until thatched house built. Also worked at times for other Cole brother at Nanyuki. On the first occasion a syce met him at Nairobi railway station with a note for him to ride a mule to Naro Moru, but after a few miles he decided walking was easier.
Gazette 19 Oct 1948 wife's probate
Gazette 19 Jan 1960 probate
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery Alfred James McIntyre d. May 1959 European Hospital, Mombasa. Died of shock after an accident.