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Name: WILSON, George

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Nee: bro of Archibald Welsh Wilson

Birth Date: 1878 Dunfermline, Scotland

Death Date: 9 July 1956 Muhoroni, Songhor

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1956

Profession: Law Clerk/Co-op Manager in Dumfermline. Farmer in Kenya.

Area: Songhor, Muhoroni, Omoro Mberere Soba, Kipsewa Falls Chemelil

Married: 1. Catherine Finlayson b. 14 Mar 1876 Inverkeithing, d. 21 Feb 1913 Kinross; 2. 1923 Charlotte Stephen Duncan at Carnoustie, Scotland. b. 1889. d. 4 Aug 1969 Nairobi

Children: 1. Catherine Thomson (7 Aug 1907-1979) and 3 others 2. George Duncan (1926-1998)

Book Reference: EAWL, Eldoret, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, SS

War Service: Royal Scots & Royal Scots Fusiliers in WW1 - France and the Middle East

School: Dunfermline

General Information:

Quote from Mrs Catherine Wilson's form - "I met my husband Duncan Wilson when he was a small baby. His father had remarried in 1923 and took his new bride to Songhor the same year we arrived in Muhoroni. Charlotte Wilson, after a year had a desire to see the 'shops' - they lived over by Twin Bridges at the foot of Nandi Hills, so the oxen were spanned and off they set very early one morning so as to be at Muhoroni to see the train come in. The Campbells were also down at the station. My mother said they could not possibly go back to Kipsewa or stay at the Dak bungalow, so they spent  a night or two with us. Duncan had not arrived on the scene by then, but he was to be the first boy in our lives. A lasting friendship was made between the two Scots families."
"When Charlotte had to get the train to go to Nairobi for the birth of Duncan, the rivers were in flood, and the only way they could get across was the old 'petrol box' (4 gall tins of petrol or paraffin were transported in these wooden boxes, 2 to a case). The box was attached to pulleys and ropes and slung across the river at the narrowest point. The 'passenger' sat in the box - with knees under the chin. It so happened that as Charlotte Wilson was being pulled across, it 'stuck' mid stream and did a spin around. Poor Mrs Wilson thought the end had come, but all was well and they made it in time to get the train at Chemelil Station.
Duncan reckons that is why he was attracted to the Navy, with a view to getting into the Fleet Air Arm - when he was called up in World War 2."  Duncan's parents went to the Gold Fields at Kakamega - when the 'Gold Rush' was on, Duncan recalls living in a 'hut' and at the end of many weeks digging and panning, his father took his findings to the Bank, and got the 'princely' sum of 80 Kenya Shillings, that would have been quite good - then. But certainly not worth all the hard work. Duncan's uncle had gone to farm in Songhor [Archibald Welsh Wilson] - foot of Nandi Hills - before WW1. He owned a cattle ranch in the Argentine and then bought in Kenya; he was an engineer so the farm had its own little light plant and many other necessities of farming. When Duncan's father was offered a soldier, settler farm in 1918, he chose to go to the Chemelil/Songhor area to be near to help his brother. His brother went back to S. America, so he took over the managing of 'Kipsewe', until his brother died suddenly and the farm was sold and George Wilson moved to Nandi Hills and worked with Eric Mayers.    Source: - George Duncan and Catherine Wilson
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - CQMS G. Wilson, Mayfield, Kinross, Scotland - Farm 391 - representative - A.W. Wilson, Muhuroni
Red 25 has George Wilson, Farmer, Eldoret.
Red 31 has G. Wilson, Sayoni, Kibigori
Gazette 16 Oct 1956 probate. Died at Soba River Estate, Muhoroni
Barnes Langata Cemetery, Nairobi in loving memory / Charlotte Wilson / who passed / peacefully away / 4.8.69

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