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Name: DOUGLAS, Hector
Photo Source: British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol
Nee: son of Haidee Douglas
Birth Date: 1882 S. Africa
Death Date: 6.9.1936 Nairobi
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1936
Profession: Planter
Area: Manager of Kasarini Estate, Kiambu, until 1932, then manager of Kitisuru Estate, Lower Kabete
Married: In Barkly East, Cape Colony 13 Oct 1905 Helen 'Nellie' Amelia Ann Shepstone b. 15 June 1884 S Africa, d. 5 July 1959 Nairobi
Children: John Shepstone (20 Sep 1906 Barkly East-1943); Haidee Amelia (22 Oct 1915 Kiambu-26 June 1916 Kiambu); Phyllis Olwen (2 July 1917 Kiambu-1927); Hector Shepstone (15 June 1920 Kiambu); Jean (Seed) (13 May 1924 Nairobi); Helen Jane (Mayers) (1908-17 Nov 1978 Kenya)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Barnes, Old Africa, Gazette, Leader 14
General Information:
He had a bro in Isiolo and one in Kitale. His mother died shortly before 1936 in Kitale, living with his sister, Mrs Charles Farquharson Crow.
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Hector Douglas, British, age 54, died 6/9/36
Women in Kenya - April 1979 - Helen, daughter of Hector and Nellie Douglas and Great Granddaughter of Sir Theophilus Shepstone was born in South Africa in 1908. She came to Kenya in 1912 at the age of 4 with a pioneering party comprising her parents and many relations. The party brought with them all their possessions, high grade horses, cattle, sheep and poultry with which to settle in the Kenya Highlands. Arriving in Mombasa they travelled with their cattle to Londiani from where they trekked overland; the men riding the horses and the women and children with the household goods in ox waggons. Their destination was the Kitale District where they had purchased land. Disaster struck within 2 years and most of their livestock died from unrecognised tickborne disease.
After striving with bad farming seasons, Hector Douglas brought his family to Kiambu where he became manager to Mr J.C. Store on his coffee farm, Kasarini.
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - Hector Douglas, Planter, Kasarini, Kiambu
Leader 14 at Uasin Gishu
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