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Name: EVANS, Geoffrey Charles (Major)
Birth Date: 1881 Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire
Death Date: 29 Oct 1950 Nyali
First Date: 1922
Profession: Farmer, Lugari
Area: P.O. Hoey's Bridge, 1930 Turbo Valley, 1922 Kericho
Married: In Queensland 1911 Alice Julia Tenniel King b. 1886 Brentford, d. 1966 Mombasa
Children: Richard Tenniel (1913 Wales- 24 Sep 1968 Mombasa); Constance Marion (Kirk) (14 Dec 1916 Newark, Notts.-1988 Hull); Dorothy Tenniel (18 Feb 1919 York-18 Nov 1987 Darlington); Patricia Christiana Tenniel (27 Mar 1921 Leamington Spa-7 Feb 2000 Barnstaple); Walter Tenniel (17 May 1926 Nairobi-10 June 2009 High Wycombe)
Author: Tenniel Evans, Don't Walk in the Long Grass, 1999
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Barnes
General Information:
Tenniel Evans (son), Don't Walk in the Long Grass Joe and Kath Babington lived in a pleasant homestead on a wooded ridge some way up the slopes of Mount Elgon. Father had had to take a job as underground manager in one of the gold mines near Kakamega, a fairly rough and raucous town-ship on the edge of the goldfields, and our parents decided that Joe's place was more suitable for Tricia and me to spend that first post-Porgies holiday than the rather raffish boarding-house in which they had landed up. If I had had any choice in the matter, I would probably have agreed with them, but Tricia would have begged to differ.