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Name: FREW, Archibald John Russell
Birth Date: 26.8.1882 Dalby, Queensland
Death Date: 23.2.1951 Sutherland, NSW [?26 Aug 1951 Sydney - Ancestry Family Tree]
First Date: 1904
Profession: Surveyor
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Sydney 1917 Rose Alice Rowell b. 1887 Petersham, NSW, d. 7 Dec 1952 Sutherland, NSW
Book Reference: SE, Drumkey, Land, Gazette, Harmony, North, EAHB 1907, Old Africa 23/6
General Information:
SE - A.J.R. Frew - July 1907
Land - 1906 - A.J. Frew - Building, 1 acre, Nakuru, 22-2-05, Registered 18-7-06
Land - 1906 - A.J.R. Frew - Grazing, 1,887 acres - Molo River - 99 years lease from 1/5/1904 - Registered 14/6/1906
Gazette - 20/5/14 - Land reverted to Crown - Archibald John Russel Frew - Nakuru
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 1/7/07, age 25, Civil Engineer, Nairobi
North - Licensed to practice as Surveyor, Nairobi 17-10-1904; at meeting of settlers protesting at death sentence on Max Wehner, Nairobi 10-2-1905; Settler's Game Licence, Ukamba Dist. July-Sept 1905
Old Africa 23/6 - 1902 - Egan … had an old friend, a surveyor, waiting to survey the land for us. Old man Frew, like Egan, Australian, Queenslander, and like most who hail from there was built on fine lines, about six feet high, straight as a rush, tough as a number nine wire with a flow of language that would make a London cabman blush. …. [more on his surveying skills]
Gazette - 15/11/1908 - Notice - The Licence granted to Mr A.J.R. Frew to practise as a Licensed Surveyor in the East Africa Protectorate has been suspended by order of the Governor until such time as he shall appear and answer a complaint formulated against him by the Director of Surveys.
Land - 1906 - A.S. Frew - Grazing 5,000 acres - Molo River - 99 years lease from 1/5/1904 - Registered 14/6/1906
North - Licensed to practise as Surveyor Nairobi 19-3-1904; Firearm registered at Takaungu May 1905