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Name: SUNDE, Mabel Elgonia 'Jane', Miss

Photo Source: Richard Reeder

Nee: dau. of Odin Nilsen Nilsen Sunde, sister of Arthur and Haakon Michael Inge Sunde

Birth Date: 9 Nov 1918

Death Date: 4 Mar 2002 Brighton

First Date: 1936

Profession: Learner teacher in 1939, appointed 1936

Area: Nairobi

Married: 1943 Edward Mence Charles Mead (1905-1980 Salisbury)

Children: Michael Charles (1946); Elizabeth Olufine (1947)

Book Reference: Staff 39

General Information:

Appointed as learner teacher on 14 Jan 1936
Gazette 20 Sep 1938 - given bursary of £50 by Kenya Govt to study at Moray House, Edinburgh
Known as Jane Mead in UK - sewing teacher at Beresford House School, Eastbourne after 1953
Info from Jeremy Young (grandson): she was naturalised British on 29 July 1927 (naturalisation cert., National Archives, Kew)
Was a FANY in World War 2

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