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Name: O'SHEA, Richard Leo
Nee: bro of Thomas Joseph and Patrick Stephen O'Shea
Birth Date: 21 May 1889 Killiney, Dublin
Death Date: 21 July 1979 Rathdown, Dublin
First Date: 1909
Last Date: 1966
Profession: European Clerk, Medical Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1925. Originally Temp. Clerk 1925. Clerk, Veterinary Dept.
Area: Eldoret, Nairobi
Married: In Ireland 7 Feb 1923 Moira 'Mary' Patricia Gannon b. 6 Mar 1898 Dublin, d. 16 July 1987 Croydon ( she worked for many years for Smith McKenzie as a telephone operator)
Children: Kevin (d. aged 6 months); Brian Stephen (12 Dec 1926 Nairobi-23 Sep 2006 West Sussex); Malachy Raphael (13 Oct 1932 Nairobi-2015 Greenwich); Maureen Teresa (Burge) (1939 Dublin)
Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Medals, Gazette, Red 19
War Service: WW1 in India
General Information:
Source: Mrs M.T. Burge (dau.) Went to Kenya to join his brother T.J. O'Shea in Eldoret. On a visit to Ireland he met and married my mother and they returned to Eldoret. They lived for a while with TJ then moved to a house near the river where my brother Kevin was born and died within six months. They then moved to Groganville in Nairobi with my father working at the medical department in Nairobi.
Dominion - Medical Department - European Clerk - 1930
Medals - East Africa Veterinary Corps - Richard L. O'Shea, EA Pay Corps, No. 5089, Clerk
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Richard Leo O'Shea - Clerk - Groganville and Mrs Eileen O'Shea - Groganville
Red Book 1919 - Veterinary Department - Clerk - R.L. O'Shea
KAD 1922 - Postal Clerk/Telegraphist
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Richard Leo O'Shea, Civil Servant, Groganville and Mrs Marie Patricia O'Shea, married woman, Box 425, Nbi
Blue Book 1939 1st appt 1.10.1925
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