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Name: MEGSON, Amelia Ann Loudon
Nee: Brown
Birth Date: 20.11.1867 Glasgow
Death Date: 23.11.1928 Eldoret
Last Date: 1928
Area: Eldoret
Married: In Altrincham 1891 Edmund Victor Megson (1865-1935)
Children: Arthur (1893 Altrincham); Forrest Loudon (16.5.1894 Altrincham-3.2.1977); Douglas Manfred (4.11.1895 Altricham-18.3.1938 Kenya); Amy Helen Woodrow (Hirsch) (b. Altrinvha-15 June 1988 Dacre, Harrogate)
Book Reference: Barnes
General Information:
Eldoret cemetery Amelia A.L. Megson born 1967 Glasgow d. 1928
Penelope Deubel (granddaughter): They left England in 1924 on the « SS.Gloucester Castle » to join their son Forrest Loudon Megson in Kenya - then part of what was called « British East Africa » - arriving in Kitale on 04.09.1924 They lived on "Elgon Dacre” farm and possibly later “Scapa" or “Katalina" farms (in which EV, Forrest and Douglas had interests) until Amelia died on 23.11.1928 in Dr. Dundas Nursing Home in Eldoret (Kenya), and was buried in the Cemetery there with a sundial as tomb stone. Edmund Victor later returned to England and died on 07.10.1935.