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Name: CONNOLLY, Patrick Paul Daly (Dr.)

Birth Date: 1897 Belfast

Death Date: 14 Dec 1949 Lichfield

First Date: 1927

Profession: Medical Officer, Medical Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1926

Area: Mombasa, 1930 Nairobi, Tanganyika

Married: Charlotte b. 1897, d. 11 Oct 1976 Salisbury, Rhodesia

Children: Maureen Daly (1925-11 Oct 1993 York); James Alexander (1926-2022 York)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 31, Dominion

War Service: Irish Guards

School: MB, BCH BAO (Queen's Univ, Belfast), DPH (Man), DTM (L'pool)

General Information:

Dominion - Health Officer - 1930
Gazette - 2/2/1927 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Med. Officer - Dr P.D. Connolly
Patrick Van Oudgaarden (grandson): In 1927 the Connolly family (father, mother and two young children) moved to Kenya where my grandfather Patrick Paul Daly Connolly had a variety of government medical posts including Nairobi, Eldoret, Kakamega (during the gold rush there), Mombasa and lastly Nyeri as MOH for Nyeri North and South provinces from 1941. Under his area of responsibility fell the prisoner of war camp in Burguret on the slope of Mt Kenya (known from the book “No Picnic on Mt Kenya”).
Late in the 2nd WW he was appointed head of an Army medical / ambulance unit (as a half or full Colonel I believe) and sent to Burma. At the end of the war my grandparents returned to UK (Granny was never happy in Kenya but he loved Africa). He hated the UK and died miserably on their wedding anniversary in 1949. Granny Charlotte came out later to Rhodesia and passed away in Salisbury on 11th October 1976.
My grandfather served in the First World War in the Irish Guards and is mentioned in the index to a history of the Irish Guards. That would have been after leaving school before going to Queens Uni to study medicine. He was a keen golfer and was captain of Kakamega golf club in 1937.
The connection with John Carberry in Nyeri is interesting (the connollys lived on the land next to Carberry) as my mother and her brother were banned from associating with the neighbour’s daughter as my grandparents strongly disapproved of the Carberrys' lifestyle, despite both being Irish. However, teenagers being teenagers they did meet up on occasions. The house next door to Seremai must either have been a government residence for a senior officer or else rented privately by grandfather.
In the 60’s my father was a manager in the Rotterdam Harbour when a staff member bought Juanita to see him. Knowing the boss had started a stevedoring company in Mombasa and having a Kenyan lady cook on board a docked ship a connection with Kenya was made but actually Juanita knew his wife! My father came home with Juanita to meet my mother

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