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Name: BARBER, Frederick Hugh FRGS, JP
Nee: son of Frederick William Barber of S. Africa, brother of Henry Mitford-Barberton
Birth Date: 8 Jan 1847 Grahamstown, S. Africa
Death Date: 17 May 1919 Eldoret
Last Date: 1919
Profession: Farmer
Area: Eldoret
Married: In London 26 Oct 1898 Eira Rebecca Evans b. 13 May 1874 Willowmore, Cape of Good Hope, S. Africa, d. 23 Sep 1935 Kitale
Children: Thomas Henry Rex (7 Sep 1903 Mombasa-2 Dec 1971 Cape Town); Frederick Henry (22 Dec 1900 S. Africa)
Book Reference: KFA, Web, Burke, Bowkers, Red 19, Leader 14
General Information:
'These hardy pioneers blazed many a trail into the wilds. They were hunters and friends of all men and they founded Barberton in 1884 and were leading pioneers in Kimberley and Johannesburg - England were not England were her sons other than these.'
Web - Dug for diamonds with his father and brother in Kimberley 1871. His journals of an expedition to the Victoria Falls in 1875 and another to Matabeleland in 1877-8 have been published by the Rhodes Livingstone Museum under the title 'Zambezia and Matabeleland in the Seventies'. This trip was made by ox-wagon through Bechuanaland via the Makarikari Pan to Pandematenga where, owing to tstetse fly, they left the wagon and completed the remaining 60 miles on foot. Fred was a painter of landscapes and antelopes. With his brother was a co-founder of the town of Barberton in Transvaal in 1884. Immigrated to Kenya and is buried at Eldoret
Burke - co-founder of the town of Barberton 1884, big game hunter and landscape painter, his journals 'Zambezia and Matabeleland in the 70's' were published by the Rhodesian Govt. 1960 and his collection of heads and horns was presented to the Heads and Horns Museum of New York in 1909.
Bowkers - In 1898 Fred Barber married Eira Rebecca Evans and had one son, Thomas Henry Rex. For a while they lived in Grey St., Grahamstown, and then at 'Green Hills', a farm a few miles east of the town. He sold out in 1910 and farmed sheep and ostriches at 'Hiltondale' near Rosmead. His brother Hal, who at this time was farming at Potchefstroom, sold out in 1912 and emigrated to British East Africa. Fred followed 3 years later and bought two farms, one near Eldoret and the other on Mount Elgon, near his brother's farm, 'Caverndale'. In his old age Uncle Fred lived with his wife and son in Eldoret and died there in 1919. His son Rex, who married in 1927 Miss Elsie May Chiverton but has no family, is in business in Kenya.
Gazette 9/6/1920 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Frederick Hugh Barber late of Eldoret who died at Eldoret on 17/5/1919. Applied for by Eira Rebecca Barber and John Clifton Shaw of Eldoret.
Red Book 1919 - F N Barber - Eldoret
Eldoret cemetery in loving / memory of / Frederick Hugh Barber / born 8.1.1847 died 17 .5.1919 Henry Mitford Barberton / born 7.9.1850 died 25.5.1920 sons of F W Barber of S.A.