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Name: FINDLAY, Flora

Nee: Tulloch

Birth Date: 19 Sep 1855 Logierait, Perthshire

Death Date: 16 Jan 1933 Kiambu

Last Date: 1933

Area: Kiambu, Waitangi estate

Married: In Marylebone 1887 James George Findlay b. 22 Dec 1854 Barony, Glasgow, d. 1914

Children: Margaret Dewar (Andrewes) (2 Aug 1888 Rangoon-12 Mar 1928 Saline, Fife); Dorothy Flora (Dallas) (16 Dec 1889 Hampstead-1974 Aberdeen); Kenneth James (9 Jan 1891 Rangoon-15 Mar 1968 Kiambu); John Tulloch (twin 9 Jan 1891 Rangoon-28 June 1915 Dardanelles); Hugh Carswell (22 Jan 1895 India-18 Jan 1944 Kiambu); Ronald Stuart (27 May 1899 India-22 Dec 1971 Kiambu)

Book Reference: Bur, Barnes

General Information:

St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - our Mother, Flora Findlay who died 16th January 1933 aged 76
Kiambu Scrapbook - In 1913 he [Philip Coldham] advised Mr J.C. Findlay [sic] to buy land spreading across three ridges on the other side of the Kamiti, also bordering on the Reserve. This farm, Waitangi, was then owned by a Mr Clarke, a New Zealander (hence the name) but was almost entirely undeveloped when Mr Findlay bought it. Below 'Waitangi' was a Captain Moller, a Swede, who had planted 65 acres of coffee by 1912, on the farm known as Deepdene, which Mr Findlay also subsequently bought. The Findlay family, so well known in Kiambu, deserve a special mention. There were four sons, three of whom took over parts of these estates as separate farms after their father's death, and lived in Kiambu all their lives. The youngest, Ronald, is still with us. All the brothers served in the 1914-18 war; the eldest lost his life in the Dardanelles while the three others were all awarded MCs. Their sister Mrs Andrewes ran Deepdene at this time, as her part in the war effort - a wonderful family record.

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