Thurtell and Related Families
Thurtell and Related Families


Notes for Edward John Godfrey THURTELL

According to information received in 1997 from Peter Murray,Thurtell, Edward John Godfrey Thurtell was born August 29, 1878, and died in1970. He was an engine driver on the railway. He probably started with a railway in South Africa and later moved to Rhodesia. His address (ca.1930?) was Box 403, Bulawayo, South Rhodesia. He married twice, first on January 2, 1901, to Ellen Johanna Hutson (or Hudson?), who was born August 14, 1880, and died October 24, 1912. He had four children with her. On February 3, 1913, he married Ethel May Gunn, who was born May 28, 1886, and had four more children with her.

Information on a picture of Edward Godfrey Thurtell showed that he was born at Beaufort West, Cape Province, South Africa, on August 29, 1878. He is pictured at age 17 in the Kimberly Regiment, where he fought for the British side. During the Thurtell Reunion in 1999, his grandson Errol Thurtell recalled that he was in the Boer War in two different regiments and died in 1969 at age 91.
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