Thurston - CO 533, 456/10 - 1935 - Exemption from death duties: estate of W.J. Bellassis

CWGC - Dar es Salaam War Cemetery - Private W.J. Bellassis, 115. East African Mounted Rifles. 3rd November 1914. Coll. Grave 8.E.6-13

Kiambu Scrapbook - 'In 1912 Major Symes-Thompson of Kianjibbi Estate was roused at dawn by his Kikuyu Headman, with the news that a pride of lion had killed two of his trek oxen in the night, and were harboured up in the thick bush nearby. He sent word to his neighbour, Bill Bellasis of Doondu Estate, and set off together with his partner Walter Fenton, to hunt the lion. With the aid of Kavirondo and Meru labourers and the Kikuyu Headman and staff, the lions were surrounded and driven out of the thick cover to fall to the guns of the planters. Until his death in 1962, Major Symes-Thompson recounted with pride the tale of the great day when "they bagged six lion before breakfast" on the spot that has since been known as Lion Hill.

Kiambu Scrapbook - By 1912, the land beyond 'Waitangi' was also being cleared and planted for coffee by Major Symes Thompson and Mr Walter Fenton (Kianjibbi) and by Captain Dorman and Mr Bill Bellasis (Doondu)

Gazette 21/4/1920 - Registration of Brands - Dormer & Bellasis - Doondu Plantation Kyambu - ED2

CWGC has W.J. Bellasis, Private 115, EAMR, Dar es Salaam Cemetery Coll. grave 8 E 6-13

Gazette - 23-12-1914 - Probate and Administration - W.J. Bellasis who was killed in action at Longido on 3rd November 1914

Gazette - 17-3-1915 - Probate and Administration - William Joseph Bellasis late of Doondu Plantation, Kyambu, Planter who died at Longido on 3rd November 1914 - applied for by Richard Fauconbury Bellasis