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Name: EGAN, James Patrick
Birth Date: 17 Feb 1882 Temora, NSW, Australia
Death Date: 8 May 1958 Bourke, NSW, Australia
First Date: 1905
Profession: Farmed at Kamiti
Area: Kamiti, Mkuyu River
Married: 1. In Bourke, NSW 1909 Eileen May Plunkett b. 1883 Cootamundra, NSW, Australia, d. 1922 Walgett, NSW; 2. In Bourke, NSW 1930 Ellen Bridget Mallon b. 7 July 1898 Bourke, d. 1993 Orange, NSW, Australia
Children: Errol Richard (1910 Bourke, NSW-1969); Harold Vincent (31 July 1915 Bourke-1993)
Book Reference: Gillett, Land, EAHB 1905, Hut, EAHB 1906, North, Old Africa
General Information:
North - Land Grant application, Kikuyu 5/3/1904; Firearm registered at Nairobi April-June 1905; Firearms registered Kiambu Oct-Dec 1905
Old Africa 23/6 - Story of surveying of George Outram's farm by Outram and Jim Egan and Frew the surveyor in 1902
Old Africa 34 - Edith Outram says - "Our original idea of getting a coffee farm materialised and George went into partnership with a very nice Australian named Jim Egan. ……….. Jim Egan was a bachelor and had no one to supervise his house. He once told his 'boy' to cook 2 pigeons for his supper and when the birds were brought in they had been boiled, feathers and all!
Land Grant 1905? - J.P. Egan - Agricultural, 640 acres - Mkuyu - Mar 5 - Freehold - Homestead
Returned to Australia