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Name: FORRESTER, Richard Raymond 'Ray'
Nee: bro of Alton Clyde, Percy Cromwell, Harry Clement, Calvert Allan and William John 'Jack' Forrester
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1899 Peddie, Cape Colony
Death Date: 30 Nov 1980 Canning, W. Australia
First Date: 1912
Profession: Farmed at Gilgil. In 1912 he trekked with his parents from Gilgil to the Western Province. 1922 Store owner and goods carrier, Rumuruti
Area: Gilgil, KAD 1922 Rumuruti, 1930 Nyroko, Gilgil, 1922 Nyeri
Married: Dorothy Marguerite Blamires b. 18 Jan 1912 Yorkshire
Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Pioneers
General Information:
Pioneers - Rumuruti - … in 1922 Jack and Ray Forrester started the European store with a combined Post Office and transport service from Gilgil. There were two ox-wagons, each with its team of 16 oxen and in fine weather Ray Forrester made the round trip in about a week. The mail was brought by runner from Nakuru and took three days. The area was thick bush, and game of all sorts abounded - a leopard took Jack Forrester's terrier off the verandah of his banda.
Red 25 - c/o Capt. Colvile, Gilgil.
Hut has Ray H. Forrester 1921 European Store, Transport Rumuruti AND R.R. Forrester 1923 Rumuruti
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Richard Raymond Forrester, Farmer PO Rumuruti
David Forrester - 24/1/2002 - In 1920 they [the Grimbecks] had built a store on their land. This was a failure, so that let in my father and Ray to start their business in 1922. For a couple of years Forrester Bros. also ran the Post Office, but they relinquished that part of the business back to the Grimbecks. The mail came once a week from Gilgil, by a runner who had to brave the threat of any wild animals he disturbed on the way." The last years before the 1939-45 war were more relaxing for my parents with the depression slowly receding. Socially the community could now enjoy wider horizons with better roads and improved designs for cars. There were Sunday picnics with the Grimbecks or the Bambers.
Went to W. Australia