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Name: BAGOTT, Archibald John 'Jack'

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Nee: nephew of Thomas Penny Robeson

Birth Date: 17 Oct 1911 Halifax

Death Date: 17 Jan 1970 Diss, Norfolk

First Date: 1927

Profession: Coffee and sisal farm manager

Area: Thika

Married: In Thika 1941 Olga Nellie Steen 'Nen', 'Nan' or 'Nennen', b. 1909 S. Africa , d. 29 Nov 1966 Norfolk. worked in FANYs in war (prev. m. Guy St John Tatham 1903-1965)

Children: Wendy Joan (1943); Priscilla Joan (1945); Peter John (1946)

Book Reference: EAWL, Wolseley-Lewis, Wendy Tyson

General Information:

Source - Mrs Ruth Norman Wolseley-Lewis - After WW2 - Jack Bagott whose place I had taken at Punda Milia, married and stayed in sisal ……..
Source - Wendy Tyson (daughter) He first went out in 1927 to work on his uncle Thomas Penny Robeson's Makindi Trading Co. farm north of Thika. Then to Punda Milia to work for Randall Swift and Ernest Rutherfoord at Makuyu, and eventually became manager of the farm.  Stationed in Nairobi in WW2. After many years he left Punda Milia and became general manager of the 3000 acre estate called Kakuzi Fibrelands at Mitubiri. In 1964 he suffered a heart attack and while he was recuperating he was let go because of a merger between Kakuzi Fibrelands and the neighbouring estate. They left Kenya with very little money and he found a job as an office manager on a chicken farm, paying very little. His wife never settled in England and was very unhappy and depressed.Died in England in 1970. 

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