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Name: SHEEN, Trevor

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Nee: half-brother of Reginald Alexander Pelham-Burn

Birth Date: 1877 ?5 May 1875 Allahabad [Trevor Stanley Sheen]

Nationality: British

First Date: 1900

Profession: Initially worked with Uganda Railway Transport section, later started his own waggon transport business to Lake Victoria. Then bought farm at Njoro and later bought more land in Fort Hall District. Ran regular transport business to Nairobi

Area: Njoro, Fort Hall

Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, Cuckoo, Nellie, Midday Sun, KFA, Verandah, EAHB 1905, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, North, Playne, Drumkey, Red 22, Land, EAS, EAHB 1906, Gazette, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912

War Service: East African units

General Information:

SE - Trevor Sheen - Njoro - July 1907
Transport business from Fort Hall to Nairobi, Voi & Kilimanjaro. He was a keen sportsman with a very strong sense of humour.   
Cuckoo - mentions him as a timber fuel contractor to the Railway.
Nellie - a former colleague of Jos Grant in the Railway Troop, EAMR. He had settled to 'grow wheat and overdrafts' as he put it.
Midday Sun - 'Reggie Pelham-Burn, a hard-bitten, breezy individual, good at weekend polo when he could borrow a mount, who lived on the pipeline with his half-brother Trevor Sheen and a highly respectable, straightlaced widowed mother who dressed, no matter what the weather, in deepest black. She had led, we were given to understand, a sheltered life in Tunbridge Wells until she had been met at Nairobi station by Trevor Sheen in an ox-cart with a posse of all-but-naked Masai warriors, and bumped off into a remote trading post in the Masai reserve where Trevor was engaged in exchanging maize meal and tobacco for cattle and sheep. Now she had settled in a shack on the plain in one of the clumps of black wattle trees, with wire netting instead of windows, an outside privy (which everybody had) and, one would think, very little to do, unless it was to brush dust or mud from her ankle-length skirts and pleated blouses.'
KFA - Present at first meeting of Wheat Growers' Association - June 1911
North - Uganda Railway - Arr. Mombasa from Europe to work on steam-launches in Uganda 16/1/1900; Transport Asst. 11/2/1900; On UP Staff List 1898-1901; Land Grant application 29/5/1903 Nairobi; Land Lease with W. Dunstall at Njoro granted 1/1/1905
Playne - Ngongo Geri (the Spotted Eye) Farm - Although Mr Trevor Sheen only came from India in 1908, he has already made his presence felt in BEA. He worked for 14 months on railway transport, and then with his own waggons and oxen ran transports to Lake Victoria Nyanza, and built the waggon road to Mumias. When land was thrown open he obtained 5,000 acres at Njoro, adjoining the railway line. This property is well watered by the Njoro River, and is bounded on one side by the railway line for 3 miles and on the other by the Njoro Township. Here he has built a dwelling-house (6 rooms) of cedar with an iron roof. ......... a few cows are kept for his own use, and about 400 oxen are used for transport etc. Mr Trevor Sheen has a regular service of transport running between Nairobi and Fort Hall, and has just started a regular service from Voi to Kilimanjaro.
Mr Trevor Sheen employs one Dutch overseer and about 40 natives. Limekilns are in operation at Kiambu under the supervision of a European, while contracts are undertaken for ploughing and developing land. In addition he has a farm of 5,000 acres on the Kabuku River in the Fort Hall District for the purpose of sisal growing; and another farm of 8,000 acres at Mwatate, in the Voi District, on which a stone house has been built.
Drumkey 1909 - Committee Member, The Colonists' Association of BEA
Land - 1909 - Trevor Sheen - Agricultural and grazing, 1000 acres, Njoro, 16-9-04, Registered 16-4-09
Land - 1909 - Trevor Sheen - Grazing, 5000 acres, Kiboko River, 16-1-07, Registered 21-4-09
Land 1909 - Trevor Sheen - Grazing and agriculture, 392 acres (extension) - Njoro - 20/2/07 - Leasehold for 94 years from 1/1/10 - Registered 23/4/10
EAS - 15/1/1903 - Nairobi Races - Entries - East African Stakes - Natalie - T. Sheen
EAS - 22/1/1903 - Mr Trevor Sheen of transport fame has been paying a visit to Entebbe and returned to Kisumu on 12th. EAS - 29/1/1903 - Nairobi Races - Race 2 - Mr MacAlister's Star of India rider Mr T. Sheen
EAS - 29/1/1903 - Nairobi Races - Race 3 - Mr MacAlister's Star of Sirius rider Mr T. Sheen
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - T. Sheen, Norfolk Hotel
Gazette - 23/9/1914 - Appt. - To be Captain, East Africa Regt. - Trevor Sheen
EAHB 1904 - Kisumu Merchants and Residents - Sheen, T.
Red Book 1912 - T. Sheen - Naivasha
Gazette 27/7/1921 - Petition for Insolvency - Trevor Sheen of Njoro
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - T. Sheen - Farmer - Njoro

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