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Name: SKELTON, Robert Jeremiah
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1892 Sheffield
Death Date: 1983 Northallerton
First Date: 1922
Profession: Seems to have been amongst the early operators of Timau Store and Post Office in the late 1920s
Area: Timau, Kericho, 1930 Nairobi
Married: In Knaresborough 1919 Maud Alice Harrison b. 27 July 1894 Knaresborough, d. 26 June 1955 Northallerton
Children: Valerie Maud (18 Aug 1920 Knaresborough-9 May 1989 Masham) (m. Hon. Roderick John Ward, div. 1947, then 1948 Sir Richard Llewellyn Barwick, div. 1968, then 1972 Col. Walter Lancaster Hey)
Book Reference: Foster, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Debrett, Burke, Peerage
General Information:
Gazette - 12/9/1923 - Dissolution of Partnership of Butchers between Maurice King of Mombasa and Mrs Maud Alice Skelton wife of Robert Jeremiah Skelton, Canstaff near Londiani. Mrs Skelton will continue the business
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Robert Skelton, Manager & Sec. Taws Ltd, Box 980, Muthaiga and Maud Alice Skelton, Secretary, Muthaiga
Red 22 - R.G. Skelton, Kericho
Red 25 - c/o Equator Saw Mills, Nairobi.
Hut has R.G. Skelton 1922 Kericho
Gazette 18 Oct 1955 wife's probate