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Name: EVANS, Arthur Strutt 'Kip'
Nee: bro of Edward Augustine Strutt 'Pole Pole' Evans
Birth Date: 24 Sep 1885 Jacksonville, Florida [Ancestry Family Tree has 15 Dec 1885]
Death Date: 8 Oct 1954 Nakuru
First Date: 1912
Profession: Sisal farmer
Area: Box 2, Rongai, 1920 Nakuru, Hut - Eldama Ravine
Married: In Cornwall Gwendoline Felicia Sneyd b. 12 June 1888 Liskeard, d. 11 Sep 1951 Nakuru
Children: Jasper Owen (1 June 1924 Nakuru-2010 Nanyuki); Sylvia Anne Elizabeth (26 Jan 1926 Kenya-20 Mar 2011 Exmouth) (Thoms)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 31, Red 22, Stud, Gazette, Rift Valley, Barnes
War Service: EAMR in WW1, Private, No. 21
General Information:
EA Stud Book 1954 - Pigs - Large Whites - A.S. Evans, Kampi ya Moto
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Molo - A.S. Evans (British), Settler
Jasper Evans in letter to Tim Hutchinson - "My Father A.S. Evans started Alphega in 1911, was in the EAMR in the war and started sisal at Alphega about 1919, building the factory in 1921. He sold to Dwen in 1928 and started Tinderet.
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 11 Jul 1913 - A.S. Evans
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - A.S. Evans - Farmer - Nakuru
Nakuru North cemetery - Arthur Strutt Evans, died 8/10/1954 aged 68 - our dear old man in loving and grateful memory
Nakuru North cemetery - Gwendoline Felicia Evans, wife of A.S. Evans, died 11/9/1951 aged 68
KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Rongai-Lower Molo Farmers' Association.
Hut has Arthur Evans Londiani, married to 'Mama Scrap'
Hut also has Arthur S. Evans 'Kiberenge' a 1908 Tinderet 1928 was skipper of a coal barque married to Gwen who d. 1952; he d. 1954
Old Africa 7 - Jasper Evans - Before coming to Kenya, my father, "Kip" Evans had been an apprentice on the P&O line for 3 years from 1902-05 in a three-mast barque named the Invermay. The Invermay sailed out of Aberdeen carrying coal around Cape Horn to Chile before taking on nitrates mined in Chile and carrying them to Australia through the "Roaring Forties." In Australia they picked up wheat bound for England. The round-the-world trip took a full year and my father earned an annual pay of five pounds sterling. Father did become a second officer in the P&O, but the job became tedious and further promotion depended on "dead men's boots," so my father decided to leave the sea and go hunting in Africa. From 1908 my father hunted from Broken Hill, now Zambia, into Mozambique and Tanganyika for 3 years. He obtained a bicycle, probably his first wheeled machine in Africa, which he used on footpaths. Punctures annoyed him so he made puncture-proof tyres for his bicycle with rawhide plaited sennit, something he had learnt during his sailing ship days. In 1911 my father was summoned by his mother to Nyeri to join her. She had started a farm named "Zawadi" in 1910, just 4 years after Meinertzhagen had established the Nyeri Boma. My father hired another bicycle in the Nairobi bazaar and managed to ride to Nyeri in two very muddy days. He didn't like Nyeri much and soon moved to Mogotio where he started his own farm called "Alphega". (The name came from two words Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. The farm was his beginning and he felt it was at the end of civilization). [later moved from Alphega to Tinderet]