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Violet Smith1

#12288, b. 1915

Last Edited=6 Dec 2009
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Chart 2: Lifeboat and 1820 settlers Greathead families
Violet Greathead née Smith
     Violet Smith was born in 1915 in Kenya.2 She married John Guy Greathead, son of James Henry Horatio Greathead and Helen Douglas Huntly.1 She and John Guy Greathead emigrated on 5 October 1951 from Southampton, Hampshire, England, to Dar Es Sallaam, Tanzania aboard Boschfontein. John, Violet and Robart gave their home address as 123 St Andrews Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk.3

Child of Violet Smith and John Guy Greathead

  • Robert Graham Greathead1

Sources of Information

  1. [S2898] Emails between Ken Greathead and Jan Cooper 11 December 2004.
  2. [S12294] Emails between Maureen Cremmin née Greathead and Jan Cooper from 8 December 20004.
  3. [S40000] Www.findmypast.com - passenger lists.

Kathleen Murphy1

#12293, b. 28 November 1915, d. 11 April 1997

Last Edited=11 Dec 2005
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Chart 2: Lifeboat and 1820 settlers Greathead families
Kathleen Greathead née Murphy
     Kathleen Murphy was born on 28 November 1915 in County Mayo, Ireland.2 She was trained at West Middlesex Hospital, London, UK. She worked in Northampton as a Midwife during 2nd world war and moved to Kenya via ship 1945. She worked at Nakuru War Memorial Hospital, then at Eldoret Native Hospital in 1950's. She moved to South Africa in May 1963 and settled in Pietermaritzburg, Natal South Africa. Here she worked at Greys Hospital Pietermaritzburg, Natal South Africa in 1960's she worked at Sunnyside Nursing Home. PMB 1970's when she retired to George, Cape Province after Godfrey's death.

She married Harold Godfrey James Greathead, son of James Henry Horatio Greathead and Helen Douglas Huntly, on 28 September 1946 in Nakuru, Kenya.1,2 Her husband Harold died on 19 November 1983 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, aged 64.3,1 She died on 11 April 1997 in George, Cape Province, South Africa, aged 81.2

Children of Kathleen Murphy and Harold Godfrey James Greathead

  • Maureen Phyllis Greathead1
  • Angela Helen Mary Greathead1

Sources of Information

  1. [S2898] Emails between Ken Greathead and Jan Cooper 11 December 2004.
  2. [S12294] Emails between Maureen Cremmin née Greathead and Jan Cooper from 8 December 20004.
  3. [S1718] Emails between Dr David Greathead and Jan Cooper 2 October 1997 together with much information from David's wonderful book "A Passage to the Cape of Good Hope" David has since very sadly died.
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