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Name: WILLIAMS, Daniel Karwyn 'Dan'
Nee: bro of William Griffith Williams
Birth Date: 1894 Cilybebyll, Glamorgan
Death Date: Uvongo, Eastern Cape, S. Africa
First Date: 1917
Profession: Farmer, taxidermist
Area: Farm 88 Eldoret, 1919 Soy Suam Estate
Married: Ivy Baker b. 1895, d.1964
Children: Edyth (29.9.1921 S. Africa-2008); David (1931); Helen (1931)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Trans Nzoia Scrapbook, Old Africa, Gazette, Barnes
General Information:
Red 22 - D.K. Williams, Eldoret - Taxidermist
Trans Nzoia Scrapbook - Article "The Kakamega Gold Rush" by D.K. Williams
Old Africa 34 - The Kakamega Goldfield by Robert G. Horne - "……. Father and another prospector, Mr D. K. Williams decided to work together, calling themselves the HornBill Syndicate. The Williams family had establsihed themselves in their thatch-roof house, situated on a ridge from which they looked down on the alluvial workings in the river below.
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau South - Daniel Karwyn William - Farmer, Farm 88, Eldoret
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Ivy Williams - died Apr 1964
Hut - Gem Mines Mumias
Gazette 18 Apr 1917 game licence