A qualified Civil Engineer, after service in both India and China he was appointed an Executive Engineer with the PWD in Nairobi, a position he held for many years. Red 25 has W.N. Blain, Lone Tree, P.O. Nairobi

Drumkey 1909 - Public Works Dept. - Executive Engineer, Naivasha, April 1st 1906- - William Blain

Drumkey 1909 - (roorkee), Asst. Eng. PWD, India; Military Works 1881-1905; China Expedition Force, 1900; Relief of Pekin Medal; Asst. Engineer PWD, EAP, 1905

Red 22 - W.N. Blain, P.O. Nairobi

EAHB 1906 - Asst. Engineer, PWD, India; Military Works 1881 to 1905 including 2 years' service with China Expeditionary Force 1900 on Railway re-construction, Relief of Pekin medal; Asst. Engineer PWD, East Africa Protectorate, June 15th 1905.

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Mombasa - W. Blain, PWD

Barnes - EAMR has William Neill Blain, Private 116

Leader14 - Executive Engineer, PWD

Colonial 1912 - Public Works Dept. - Executive Engineer

Red Book 1912 - Public Works Dept. - Executive Engineer

Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - William Blain - Executive Engineer, PWD, Lower Hill Road and Mrs Marion Ellen Blain - Lower Hill Road

Red Book 1919 - W. Blain - PWD - Nairobi

Red Book 1919 - Public Works Department - Executive Engineer - W. Blain

Gazette - 14/1/1920 -Appointment - To be Deputy Director of Public Works - William Blain wef 3/8/1917

Gazette - 4/5/1921 - Presentation of Honours by Governor - Lieut W Blain - MC

Drumkey 1909 Directory of Residents - W. Blain, Nairobi

Burke - William Neil Blain - daughter married Kenneth Edward Hunter

EAHB 1907 - W. Blain - Naivasha

Thomson's Falls cemetery - W.N. Blain, died 1953 - unmarked grave

Stand-to - Mombasa 1936 - Will Blain and his brother, and Will's 2 daughters, Dar and Sue who were both about my own age. …………… They were pioneer settlers and farmed a large cattle ranch at an altitude of over 9,500 feet, [35 miles from T. Falls] close to the peak of Mount Satima in the Aberdare Mountains. Adjoining their ranch was a similar one, owned by Will's brother-in-law, a third, by another brother-in-law and, between them was yet another occupied by a sister-in-law. They were a large family and the total acreage they ranched was vast. They were all classic examples of Kenya pioneer settlers, and they dressed, spoke and acted the part. Will even had an unmarried sister-in-law who drank two bottles of gin a day, which was, she said, 'to prevent malaria'. Will was an Englishman, who had been a civil service engineer in India and then in Kenya, where he had married into a family who had emigrated there before 1900. Having fought the Germans in East Africa during the 1914/18 world war, the family had taken up the Government's offer to ex-soldiers, of unoccupied settlement farms, and 'though they claimed to be of Argentinian descent, they all spoke and behaved like typical English gentry.' ……….. Both of the girls were attractive, the elder one, Dar was dark and slender and Sue, blonde plumpish and pretty. They could ride, safari, shoot big game using heavy rifles and play polo like back-woodsmen.

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 18 Mar 1924 - W. Blain

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - William Neill Blain, Planter, Lone Tree, PO Nairobi and May Francis Blain, Lone Tree, PO Nairobi

Red Book 1919 - W M Blain - Settler - Lone Tree, Nairobi

Gazette 7 July 1953 son's probate