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Name: SINCLAIR, Rowland 'Jock'
Birth Date: 31 May 1900
Death Date: 29 Jan 1951 Kisumu
First Date: 1922
Profession: Sub-Engineer/Inspector, Posts & Telegraphs Dept., in 1939, appointed 1928. Butcher?
Area: Lumbwa, KAD 1922 Nakuru, 1949 Kericho, Kisumu
Married: In Johannesburg 2 Apr 1921 Maria Frederika 'Freda' Schipper Ellis b. 7 Oct 1901, d. 2 July 1992 Somerset West, S. Africa (later m. Oswald Eric Hopley 1893-1970 and went to S. Africa)
Book Reference: EAWL, KAD, Red 25, Hut, Staff 39, Dominion, Rugby
General Information:
Tennent family memoirs - Butcher.
Gazette 21 Aug 1951 Rowland Sinclair died 8 Sep 1951 - with Freda Sinclair as executrix (see also Jock Sinclair)
But Gazette 6 Mar 1951 probate for him by Maria Frederika says he died at Kisumu 29 Jan 1951
Blue Book 1931 has Rowland Sinclair telegraph inspector appt 13.10.1928
Dominion - Public Works Department - Posts and Telegraphs Dept. - Telegraph Inspector - 1930
Rugby - Played for Kenya against Combined South African Universities December 1929-30 - R. Sinclair
FindaGrave Rowland “Jock” SINCLAIR Birth 31 May 1900 Death 29 Jan 1951 (aged 50) Burial Kisumu Cemetery Kisumu, Kisumu, Kenya Memorial ID 238582459
S. African marriage cert - Rowland Sinclair bachelor aged 22 m. Freda Ellis spinster aged 21 in Johannesburg 2 Apr 1921