Biography of Stuart Shepherd FOLKER
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Biography of Stuart Shepherd FOLKER
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Stuart Shepherd Folker was the youngest of the three children of Horace and Margaret Folker and was born at Stroud House in Dene Road, Guildford, Surrey on 14 February 1905. His middle name of Shepherd acknowledged the connection with the Shepherd family at the time of his great grandfather Samuel who married Sarah Shepherd. Stuart was baptised on 25 April 1905 at Holy Trinity church in Guildford.
The census of 1911 shows the family had moved to "Wroxham" in Overton Road in Sutton, Surrey. Stuart completed his education at Malvern College between 1919 and 1921 as recorded in the school list of 1919. That list also note stuart had taken up the profession of a Civil engineer. It was during that period that the family surname was changed by his father to Shepherd-Folker.
The family had moved to "Ashurst" in Sutton Court Road, Sutton when, on 3 September 1926, Stuart embarked the ship Mulbera at the Port of London bound for Mombassa, Kenya. Although his occupation was listed as being an Engineer, he was about to become a farmer on the Cherupet Estate in Kitale, Kenya.
Having returned for a visit home, Stuart is recorded as a passenger aboard the German ship SS Watussi leaving Southampton on 2 October 1930 bound for Durban in South Africa, but destined for Kenya. The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya dated 1936 lists Stuart as a farmer in Kitale therefore eligible to vote in the Trans Nzoia region.
Stuart was living in Johannesburg when, around 1952, he married widow Mona Grace Campbell Upton, née MacFarlane. Stuart had been friends with Thomas, her first husband, who had been killed in a road accident in 1946, shortly before the birth of their daughter and only child Susan Ann Shepherd Upton.
Stuart died in Johnnesburg around 1996.