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Name: KELBE, Walter Edward (Dr.)
Birth Date: 12 Sep 1861 Kennington, Surrey
Death Date: 29 May 1943 Mombasa
First Date: 1910 (April)
Last Date: 1943
Profession: Doctor in Nairobi in 1912. 1938 farming, Eldoret
Area: Nairobi, 1925 Eldoret, Hut - 'Karita Farm' Eldama Ravine, 1920 View Hill
Married: 1. 1892 Elfrida Gertrude Bernard (d. 1899); 2. In Woodstock, Maclear, S. Africa 10 Dec 1911 Beatrix 'Trixie' Beale Roberts b. 19 Oct 1888 Maclear, Eastern Cape, d. 4 Nov 1954 Eldoret (sister of Arthur Reuben and Cecil Woolcott Roberts)
Children: 2. Carna Beatrice (Mills) (12 Jan 1913 Nairobi-28 Sep 1938 Kenya); Joyce Amy (Harvey) (12 Feb 1914 Nairobi-1995 Durban); Molly Clare (Greathead) (9 Oct 1915 Cape Town-21 Dec 2012 Albany. W. Australia); infant (12 Apr 2020- 20 Apr 2020); Dudley Martin Leake (12 Apr 1920 Eldoret -1987 Natal)
Book Reference: SE, HBEA, Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Land, Ken Greathead, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Gazette, North, Gillett (as Keble)
School: LRCP, MRCS
General Information:
SE - Dr. Kelbe - Apr 1910
Red 22 - Justice of the Peace - Burnt Forest Area
Land 1909 - W.E. Kelbe - Grazing and agricultural, 2771 acres - Uasin Gishu - 18/3/10 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 5 to 99 years from 1/4/10 - Registered 16/6/10
Land 1909 - W.E. Kelbe - Grazing and agricultural, 1177 acres - Uasin Gishu - 18/3/10 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 5 to 99 years from 1/4/10 - Registered 16/6/10
Ken Greathead - Dr Walter Edward Kelbe - bought land in a syndicate with his wife's family (father-in-law, CBC Roberts, and his sons Cecil (Bobbie) and Arthur Roberts) in the Burnt Forest area (4000 acres) around 1910. Dr Kelbe practised in Nairobi before WW1, then in 1916-18 served with the South African Forces in the Tanganyika Campaign after which he returned to farming and doctoring. He died in Mombasa where he was buried in Jun 1943.
His wife Trixie remained farming and died in Nov 1954 and was buried in Eldoret. Their eldest daughter Carna was married to Jack Mills farming in Burnt Forest, she died and was buried Eldoret (1938)
Red Book 1912 - Kelbe - Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - Registered Medical Practitioner - Walter Edward Kelbe
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau South - Walter Edward Kelbe, Farmer, PO 40 and B.B. Kelbe, Farmer, PO Farm 40
Red 25 - JP, Burnt Forest
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll
Gazette 25 Oct 1955 wife's probate
FindaGrave Dr Walter Edward KELBE BIRTH 1865 DEATH 29 May 1943 (aged 77–78) Mombasa, Kenya BURIAL
Mbaraki Cemetery Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya
, cerebral haemorrhage
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