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Name: HALLOWES, William Brabazon 'Brab'

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Nee: son of Walter Haffenden and Ethel Hallowes, bro of Kenneth Bernard and Rupert Haffenden Hallowes

Birth Date: 22.2.1908 Vriehied, Kambula, Natal

Death Date: 29.11.1993 South Africa

Profession: Farm manager

Area: Otterhead Estate, Ruiru

Married: 1. In Limuru 1934 Diana Grace King-Magee b. 21.4.1912 Nairobi, d. 1 Feb 1954 Elmenteita (dau of Arthur Fitzherbert King-Magee of Dublin and Limuru); 2. Joan Scott; 3. Eileen Rowe

Children: Peter Blythe William (10.2.1935 Nairobi); Nigel Francis (bapt. 18 July 1937 Ruiru); Patricia Mary (Baxendell) (11 Apr 1939 Nairobi-2013); Martin Richard (1947)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Web, Bap, Wolseley-Lewis, Barnes, Foster, Red 31, Barnes

School: Michaelhouse

General Information:

Web - Before WW2 he was a Lance Corporal (T) in the Kenya Regt.; to 2/6 KAR as Sergeant 10/9/39; CSM Nov. 1939; 2 Lt. 12/6/40; Lt. 12/12/41. He served in East Africa, the Sudan and Abyssinia to Sept 1941, then in Kenya until March 1942 when he was demobbed. Before and after the war he ran farms as a professional manager at Thika, Ruiru, Donyo Sabuk, Kikuyu and Mau Narok, before buying his own, "Carrigans" at Ol Kalou. It adjoined "Passenham" his brother Rupert's property. However after 1951 following the failure of a wheat crop Brab actually worked for the Agricultural Settlement Board in Kenya and he was responsible for settling large numbers of mainly British settlers on a large tract of crown land on the Mau escarpment known as Mau Narok, west of Nakuru. After leaving Kenya he lived in England and South Africa. He died in the late eighties.
Wolseley-Lewis - After WW2 - Brab Hallowes had gone to South Africa
Barnes - Limuru Cemetery - Dianna Grace Hallowes, 1912 - 1954
Foster - 1932 Church Committee Kiambu; 1934 Church Committee St Michael and All Angels Church, Ruiru; 1937 Church Committee Limuru; 1937 Church Warden St Michaels and All Angels Church Ruiru.
Barnes - Played rugby for Thika/Ruiru in the early days
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 139).
Gazette 12 Apr 1955 wife's probate

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