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Name: STOKES, Charles Kasaja

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Nee: son of Charles Stokes

Birth Date: 1895

Death Date: 1994

First Date: 1895

Profession: Medical orderly

Married: 1921 Sarah Nambaliwa

Children: 3 sons, 5 dau

Book Reference: Kenyatta

General Information:

Kenyatta - Scottish Mission - 'baptism of a young half-caste boy, Charles Kasaja Stokes, who had recently returned from Dundee where Mrs Watson had taken him for 2 years' schooling. Charles Kasaja was the son of a former CMS missionary who had married a Muganda woman and gone in for ivory trading and gun-running on the Uganda-Congo borders until caught and shot by the Belgians. Charles was born in 1895 and never knew his father. (became a good friend of Kenyatta)
Web About 1908 Charles Kasaja was taken to Scotland by the widow of a Presbyterian missionary, Mrs. Walker. He trained in Dundee as a medical orderly and returned to Uganda where he served the government for the whole of his working life. One of his principal tasks in his later life as to organise and conduct the blood transfusion service in that country.  At the time of writing (1986) Charles Kasaja is alive and enjoying good health at the age of 91. He lives in Kampala on land given to him in 1903 by the Regents of Buganda in recognition of his father “who was our friend”.  Charles Nanjala (Kasaja) married Sarah Nambalilwa in 1921. They had a family of eight children, 3 sons and five daughters, of whom 2 sons and 4 daughters grew to maturity and married.

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