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Name: MURRAY, James Campbell
Birth Date: 12.1.1894 Glasgow
Death Date: 11.10.1957 Nakuru
First Date: 1920s
Last Date: 1957
Profession: Farmer, Club Secretary, Shopkeeper, Farm Manager, Hotel Manager. Coffee farmer in Makuyu area until 1940. 1945 Farm Manager Kiambu then Ol Donyo Sabuk. 1946 Manager Rift Valley Sports Club. 1948 Manager Njoro Club.
Area: Makuyu, Kiambu, Ol Donyo Sabuk, Nakuru, Njoro, Malindi, Lushoto
Married: 1. 1929 Kirsten 2. In Dec 1939 Christian Margaret Grant 'Margot' b. 8.3.1907, d. 1960 3. 1950 Peggy Fawcus d.1965
Children: 1. Maureen (1930-2018) 2. Diana Mary Campbell (Townsend) (1940-2020) 3. Anna (13.12.1950), Andrew (26.12.1951)
Book Reference: EAWL, Mrs June Knowles, Hut, Barnes
War Service: With KAR in EA in WW1. WW2 in Air Force in Palestine & Egypt
General Information:
1950 Ran the European Stores Malindi, 1953 Manager Leeuws Hotel, Lushoto. Source Mrs D.M.C. Townsend. After Campbell died in the 1960s his wife Peggy ran the Highlands Hotel at Molo for some years before going to live in SA where she died in 1965.
Mrs June Knowles - said that Campbell Murray beat his wife Peggy
Hut has Campbell Murray 1937 River Cottage Farm, Thika
Barnes - Nakuru North Cemetery - James Campbell Murray, born 12/1/1894, died 11/10/1957
2nd wife worked as secretary for Governor Brooke-Popham at outbreak of war.
Info from Diana Townsend (dau) James Campbell Murray b. 6.01.1894 Glasgow. Went to Kenya in the 1920’s. He was a coffee farmer in Makuyu Married Kirsten ? in 1929 and had one daughter Maureen who died in 2018. Married my mother as above and moved to Palestine and then North Africa for the duration of the war. 1945 farm manager in Kiambu then Ol Donyo Sabuk then ran Rift Valley Sports club in Nakuru and later Njoro Country Club. 1949 moved to Malindi where he ran the European general stores and later married Peggy Fawcus and had two more children Anna 13.12.1950 and Andrew 26.12.1951. He died in Nakuru 1957
He was seconded to the KAR during the first world war and saw action all over East Africa with his brother in law to be, Dudley Walsh.
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