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Name: SAYER, James Arthur
Birth Date: 28 Mar 1877 Bylaugh, Norfolk
Death Date: 29 Nov 1960 Sparham, Norfolk
First Date: 1936
Last Date: 1936
Profession: Farmer, K Prospecting Syndicate
Area: Kisumu
Married: In Sparham, Norfolk 22 July 1902 Georgianna Margaret Garrod b. 31 Oct 1870 Isle of Ely, d. 6 Feb 1951 Norfolk
Children: Margaret Fanny (Pickering) (11 Mar 1904 Sparham-15 June 1977 Dereham); Douglas James William (8 May 1906 Sparham-17 Apr 2005 East Dereham); Arthur John (22 Dec 1911-15 Feb 1944 RAF, shot down and killed over Denmark)
Book Reference: Hut
War Service: Norfolk Yeomanry
General Information:
Michael Sayer (grandson): He was a captain in the Norfolk Yeomanry with Sir John Ramsden and Major Ivor (Toby) Buxton and they shared a tent in the Gallipoli campaign. That is how his son Douglas James came to go to Kenya, working for Sir John Ramsden.
JP. Bought Sparham Estate 1923.
1936 to Kenya to ask his son to Douglas James return to England to run the estate.
1939 England and Wales Register living in Mitford with wife, as farmer
His Son Arthur John is buried at St George's Church, Landet, Isle of Taasinge.