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Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.orgIn the 1901 census there is a house called Guy Harlings in this vicinity which is almost certain to be one of the houses listed in the 1911 here but identification is unsure.
George Guy Butler, head, 20, university student, born Shanghai
Stella M, sister, 19, born Shanghai
Eveline, sister, 16, born Shanghai
Eustace, brother, 11, born Shanghai
Emma L Straight, aunt, 44, living on own means, born Chelmsford
Louisa R Rickard, 25, cook, born Cambridge
Ellen Pitts, 21, housemaid, born Manea
George Guy Butler was a student at Emmanuel College. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital and was a Captain in the RAMC in WWI and was awarded the MBE. He was later director of the Laboratory Dar-es-Salaam and bacteriologist Government Lymph Establishment, Ministry of Health.
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