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Name: LUMSDEN, Edward Roch

Birth Date: 1854 India

Death Date: 24.5.1914 Jinja, typhoid fever

Nationality: British

First Date: 1896

Last Date: 1914

Profession: Uganda Railway accountant - seconded from Govt. of India; Member of proposed EA Volunteer Force 9/10/1896 Mombasa; home leave 1899; Snr. Accountant; Jailed for two years with hard labour 3/10/1900

Area: Mombasa

Married: 1. In Salisbury, Wilts. 13 Dec 1894 Frances Eleanor 'Maydie' Wheeler, b.16.4.1869 Salisbury, Wiltshire, d. 27.5.1900 Nairobi (Nairobi South cem); 2. in England 1909 Sophia Wingrove née Waller b. 1877, d. ?1966 Havering (prev. m. Archie Victor Wingrove 1873-1900)

Children: 1. Edward Reginald 'Reggie' (1896); Francis Mervyn (1898 Salisbury) 2. Nelson Gerald (8 July 1913 Jinja-2007 Surrey)

Book Reference: North, Drumkey, CWGC, Leader14, Mills Railway

General Information:

North - Eurasian - Convicted of receiving promissory note for 8,000 rupees from Railway contractor T.W. Dallas, payable if he succeeded in getting both the original & revised invoice for the same work paid. Fraud came to light after Dallas' death & a similar fraud involving another contractor, S.N.D. Anzoulatos was discovered later.
Drumkey 1909 - Directory of Residents - E.R. Lumsden, Malindi
CWGC - Tanga European Cemetery has Clerk R.E. Lumsden, East African Railways, 6th November 1918. VII.D.3
North - at Kisumu 1-5-1904; Firearm registered at Mombasa 4-10-1905
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death in Jinja

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