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Name: ALLEN, Archibald Hartley Frazer
Nee: son of Rev David Frazer Allen
Birth Date: 10 May 1904 Bourne, Lincolnshire
Death Date: 1942 Nakuru, of burns
Profession: Farmer
Married: In Handsworth, Stafford 10 June 1933 Mabel Violet Ellis b. 5 Feb 1909, d. 1984 Kingston, Surrey (later m. Robert Morgan-Grenville 1916-1993)
Children: David Charles (23 Mar 1936 Nakuru-1992)
Book Reference: Ghosts, Web
General Information:
Ghosts - business partner of Robert Morgan-Grenville arrived in Kenya in 1938. After his premature death Mabel married Morgan-Grenville. Buried on his farm in Happy Valley.
Ghosts - Frank Daykin said 'he was killed under a tractor which caught fire when he was lighting a cigarette
Ghosts - St. Peter's Ol Kalou - behind the wooden altar rails, a brass plaque on a chair commemorated 'A.H. Fraser Allen (died 1942)
Michael Sayer: In 1942, Hartley Frazer-Allen died of burns after a tin of paraffin caught fire when a tractor which was being started backfired. Hartley had married Mabel, stepdaughter and adopted daughter of Charles Osborne Ellis and after his death she married Robert Morgan-Grenville, who had the farm to the south. In 1950, in order to buy adjoining land in Norfolk, Douglas James Sayer agreed with Mabel to terminate the Ol Gojera partnership and Mabel bought out Sayer (30 March 1950). Sayer was guardian to David Frazer-Allen, who was sent to school in England at Tabley.