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Name: ANDERSON, Charles Arthur Mason

Nee: bro of Alfred Gerald Wright Anderson

Birth Date: 29.10.1868 Manston, Dorset

Death Date: 30.1.1946 Bristol

First Date: 1902

Profession: Hotelier

Area: Ramisi, Mweli, Nairobi, Mombasa

Married: In London 8.6.1895 Christiana Lloyd Barrett b.1865 Chelsea, d. 25.3.1937 Bristol

Book Reference: Red 25, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Drumkey, Red 22, Thurston, CO, Red Book 1912, Web, Gazette, Red 19, North, Land, EAHB 1906, Nicholls, EAHB 1907, Leader14

General Information:

Drumkey 1909 - C. Anderson - Shimoni
Red 22 - C. Anderson, Box 420, Nairobi
Red 25 - Tudor House, Mombasa.
Red 31 - Box 18 Mombasa
Gazette - 31/10/1923 - Application for General Retail Liquor Licence - Charles Anderson - Hurlingham Hotel, Hurlingham Road
Gazette - 22/4/1925 - General Retail Liquor Licence - C Anderson (with midnight privileges) - Tudor House, Mombasa
Thurston - Official Records - CO 848/15 - War of 1914-18, Claims, 1925-32, Kenya - C.A.M. Anderson - Planter and Hotel Proprietor, Tudor Hotel Mombasa. He writes from 41 Upper Belgrave Road, Clifton claiming for loss of coconut plantation and rubber trees as a result of direct enemy action - Claimed £2500. Eventually paid £1520. Mentions his brother A.G.W. Anderson and land at Ramisi
Red Book 1912 - C.A.M. Anderson - Nairobi
Web - Something of an Inventor - When living at 41 Upper Belgrave Road, Clifton, Bristol in 1934 patented a golf tee and in America in 1902, patented a garment stretcher!
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Charles Arthur Mason Anderson - Hotel Proprietor, Hurlingham Road
Red Book 1919 - C A M Anderson - Tudor House, Mombasa
Land 1906 - Chas. Anderson - Mangrove purposes - Land situated at Gazi and known as "Gazi Bay" - 5 years lease from Jan, 1904, Registered 18/1/1906
Land 1909 - C. Anderson - Agricultural, 320.12 acres - Vanga District - 7/10/07 - Homestead, freehold - Registered 17/11/09
Land 1909 - Chas Anderson - Agricultural, 320.22 acres - Vanga District - 1/8/07 - Homestead, freehold - 20/4/10
Land 1909 - Chas Anderson - Buildings, 4.78 acres - Shimoni - 7/10/07 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/1/09 - Registered 20/4/10
Land - 1912 - Chas. Anderson - Grazing and agricultural, 3980 acres - Londiani - 2/9/11 - Occupation Licence for 2 to 99 years from 1/9/11 - Registered 19/2/12
EAHB 1906 - C. Anderson, Mombasa
Gazette - 24/6/14 - Partnership between Charles Anderson and Lionel Thomas De Maine as Highlands Transport Co. dissolved. New partner of L.T. De Maine is James Blandy Llewellyn
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - Charles Anderson, Transport Contractor
Nicholls - On the coast south of Mombasa, there were no European settlers, apart from Charles Anderson on an estate at Ramisi, busy experimenting with vanilla and tobacco. He also acquired the Magarini plantation at Mambrui confiscated from a rebel Swahili.
North - Lease to harvest mangrove poles at Ramisi 24-9-1904
EAHB 1907 - C. Anderson - Shimoni
Settler - Owner of experimental tobacco estate at Rimisi, south of Mombasa, Sept. 1902; Claiming to have found coal at Mweli, Oct. 1903
 

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