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Name: COOPER, Harry
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1884 Elmswell, Suffolk
Death Date: 20 Dec 1959 Nairobi
First Date: 1914
Profession: Took up land and farmed at Kampi ya Moto
Area: Kampi ya Moto
Married: Constance d. 27 July 1957 Nakuru
Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, Ruiru, Gazette, Barnes, KAD, Red 22
War Service: Royal Horse Artillery
School: Wilmot Street School
General Information:
Ruiru has Harry Cooper, Planter, PO Ruiru, initiated 18/10/1924
Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Harry Cooper - Farm Manager, Mara Mara Estates - Kericho
Nakuru North cemetery - Connie, beloved wife of Harry Cooper, died 27/7/1957
Gazette 2 Feb 1960 probate
Harry Anderson Cooper? Father of Alan Norman Cooper. The 1891 and 1911 censuses give no 2nd forename
George Nightingale Memoirs 1914-1960s Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.1951 He lived in a corrugated iron shed half a mile from the Ruiru Hotel and tan a haulage business with 1 old lorryy. He said no one ever paid him so how could he pay his bar bill at the Ruiru Hotel. He kept customers amused so was allowed to run up an account. When he reached £10 his credit stopped so he would be signing chits on a number two account. In 1927 he was on number three account, still paying off number one account.