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Name: HILLYAR, Angela Helen, Mrs

Nee: Walton-Knight

Birth Date: 1905 Burdewan, India

Death Date: 3 Sep 1965 Nairobi

First Date: 1931

Last Date: 1965

Profession: Lady Grigg Nurse trained at Norfolk's Norwich Hospital and got Tropical Diseases Cert. in London before sailing for Kenya. She nursed people in their own homes and did maternity work on outlying farms

Area: Naivasha

Married: In Nairobi 1935 Charles William Hillyar (1905-1995)

Children: Jane (1936-1942); William George Roland (1937 Nairobi); Elizabeth Helen (1940); Robin Charles (1942); Angela Marion (1944); Sally Ann; Carol Rosemary (1947)

Book Reference: EAWL

General Information:

Son Robin Hillyar won the EA Safari Rally with Jock Aird in 1969. Source: Mrs Rosalind Hillyar - Angela Hillyar was an incredible person. She helped run the farm and started to teach her own children and other people asked her to teach theirs and gradually a school formed and hundreds of nursery age children lived there from remote farms or missionaries in Uganda, even babies when people went on leave! 1944-64. Unfortunately she suffered from multiple sclerosis and gradually became paralysed and was in a wheelchair but, helped by Liz and Angie, continued the school until just before her death. During the War she, like many other farmer's wives, spun wool from their own sheep on a spinning wheel provided by the Red Cross and made the children's clothes.
Gazette 19 Oct 1965 probate

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