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Name: DALGAIRNS, Ralph Samuel

Nee: brother of Willoughby Edward Dalgairns

Birth Date: 22 Oct 1864 Madras, India

Death Date: 10 Oct 1929 Nairobi

Nationality: British

First Date: 1897

Last Date: 1929

Profession: Uganda Railway Permanent Way Inspector. At Kiu, he was present in the vicinity when Mr Ryall was killed by a man-eating lion at Kima

Area: Kiu, 1930 Nairobi, Magadi Soda Co., Tsavo 1898

Married: In Nairobi 25 Nov 1908 Mary 'May' Agnes Murphy b. 10 Jan 1886 Bangalore, d. 13 Mar 1957 Nairobi (sister of Mercy Florence Jones who m. Eckhard Alfred Prichard)

Children: Ralph James Edward 'Bob' (29 Aug 1909 Athi River-1974 Chichester); Dorothy Mary (Hanson) (16 Oct 1913 Nairobi-11 Dec 2002 Birmingham); Gertrude Iris (West) (5 Dec 1915 Nairobi-2001 Salisbury); Ruth Evelyn (Walker) (18 Oct 1918 Nairobi-30 Jan 1999)

Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, North, Drumkey, KGF, EAHB 1906, Barnes

War Service: Uganda Railway Regiment

General Information:

Drumkey 1909 - Railway Dept. - Sr. P.W. Inspector - 1900

Daily Telegraph - Deaths - Dorothy Mary Hanson, née Dalgairns. Born 1913 in Nairobi, Kenya, died peacefully in hospital in Birmingham on 11th December 2002. Devoted mother to Maureen and Glenn and much loved Grandmother to Helen and Lucy

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Mary Agnes Dalgairns, British, age 70, died 13/3/57 and Ralph Samuel Dalgairns, British, age 65, died 10/10/29

Red 25 has R. Dalgairns, Nakuru

Gazette - 17/12/1929 - Probate and Administration - Ralph Samuel Dalgairns late of Nairobi who died at Nairobi on 10 October 1929. Applied for by Mary Agnes Dalgairns

Gazette - 27/6/1917 - Engineering and Traffic Staff on Danger Zone 1915/16 - Senior PWI - R S Dalgairns

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