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Name: FOSTER, Mark
Birth Date: 15 Mar 1887 Ewhurst, Sussex
Death Date: 30 Jan 1956 Ruiru
First Date: 1919, Soldier Settler
Last Date: 1956
Profession: Farmer
Area: Ngong Estate, Nairobi, Hut - 1931 Sukari Ltd. Kahawa, Ruiru
Married: In Northampton 1920 Ella Cunney b. 10 Dec 1893 Claddagh, Sligo, d. 9 Mar 1976 Nairobi
Children: Mary Eileen (23 Apr 1922 Ngong-13 June 1923 Nairobi); Jack Patrick Marcus (23 Apr 1923 Ngong-22 Aug 1941on active service Asmara, Eritrea); Patricia Mary (19 Feb 1924 Nairobi-2016 Malindi); Virginia Frances 'Pearl' (19 Feb 1924 Nairobi-25 Dec 2010 Oxford) (Dalton)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Barnes, Gazette
General Information:
Went to Kenya in 1919 as Soldier Settler and set up a coffee tree nursery in Ruiru and from there they set up a coffee farm. He also managed other coffee farms.
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Mark Foster, died 30 Jan 1956 aged 68
Gazette 28/6/1922 - Notice - Neither Mark Foster the Manager of Major C.C. Steele's Farm situate at Ngong near Nairobi, nor any other person has authority to pledge the credit of the said C.C. Steele in any manner whatsoever and that the said C.C. Steele will not be responsible for any debts which the said Manager or any other person may purport to incur on his behalf.
Red 31 has M. Foster, Sukari Ltd., Kahawa AND M. Foster 1937 Komina Estate Ruiru
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List
Gazette 24 July 1951 Blacklaws & Brown vs Mark Foster
Gazette 11 Dec 1956 probate for Mark Foster of Ruiru
Langata cemetery, Nairobi in loving memory / of / our dearest mother / Mrs Ella Foster / died 9.3.1976