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Name: BLACK, Eugene Gilbert

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Nee: son of Geoffrey Gilbert Newton Black

Birth Date: 30 May 1914 Johannesburg

Death Date: 21 Sep 1988 Vancouver

First Date: 1930

Last Date: 1960

Profession: Farm manager; clerk 1939

Area: 'LIserko', Ol Kalou; Nzoia River

Married: In Nairobi 4 June 1938 Emily Winifred Brown b. 18 Dec 1913 Moray, Scotland, d. 1988 Vancouver

Children: Isabel (1943-2019 Ottawa); Jacqueline (1945); Catherine (1949)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, A.G.D. White, Red 31, Hut (as G. Black)

War Service: Kenya Regiment, King's African Rifles

General Information:

A.G.D. White - Re H.A.D. White - dangerous bull nearly killed a manager, Eugene Black.
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 709).
Iain Mulligan: Eugene Gilbert Black was Geoffrey and Violet's son, born in Johannesburg 1914.  He didn't initially come to Kenya with his parents, but joined them later in Nairobi where he went to boarding school, not sure which, but Edna went to Loreto Convent, so Eugene may have gone to St Mary's.  By 1938 he was assisting Harold White on Harold's farm at Liserko, Ol Kalou. (Liserko was the original name of the small railway station at Mile 40  just south of Thompson's Falls when the branch line first opened in 1929, subsequently renamed Ol Joro Orok).  On 4 June 1938* at St Andrews Church of Scotland in  Nairobi Eugene married Emily Winifred Brown (Win) from England,  who was working as a stenographer at Baumann's, alongside my mother.  ("Black married Brown with White (Harold) as witness", the other witness was Terry Phillip, whom I knew as "Dr Phillip").  Eugene was in the Kenya Regiment, then KAR in WWII in Abyssinia.  After the war they took a farm on the Nzoia River near Kiminini, Kitale, on the Eldoret side of Richmond's Corner (now Ndalu).  They had three daughters, Isabel 1943, Jacqueline 1945 and Catherine 1949.  They sold the farm in 1960 and settled in Vancouver.  Eugene died in 1988, Win 4 months later.  Isabel died in Ottawa 2019, Jacqueline and Catherine live in BC near Vancouver. Hutchinson's directory shows "Townsend" against Eugene Black's entry in Kitale, and "Hawks West Farm Kiminini" against Townsend. Could be Eugene bought Townsend's farm, Eugene named his farm "Annosa" after his daughters' second names.

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