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Name: MITFORD-BARBERTON Alban McGowan 'Pog'
Nee: son of Henry Barber (later Mitford--Barberton) and Mary
Birth Date: 9 Dec 1904 Port Alfred, South Africa
Death Date: 13 Nov 1983 Kitale
First Date: 1914
Profession: Farmed in the Kitale area. Violinist
Area: 'Caverndale Estate', Kitale, 1925 'Lions Fountain', P.O. Kiminini
Married: In Kitale 3 Nov 1935 Mrs Mary Agnes Hobson-Matthews née Pitt b. 28 Feb 1906, d. 26 Apr 1985 Kitale (dau of Maj Bernard Pitt of Nairobi)
Children: Simon Anthony McGowan (6 Sep 1936 Ealing-27 Mar 1955 Nairobi, motor accident)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Curtis, Web, Who's Who 63, Burke, Bowkers
War Service: Army Service 1940-45
School: St Andrew's College Grahamstown
General Information:
Curtis - p. 118 - 'Trans Nzoia: The Mitford Barberton Family'
Curtis - p. 120 - Conversation between Anne Thurston and Alban Mitford Barberton in 1983 re the slump of the 1930s - ' ...... I stayed here and did a lot of transport. I had lorries - I got them on credit from Fords. Despite the depression there was a lot more cultivation then. We had a find, a young man - he used often to do 5 trips a day down to Lugari - the KFA opened a depot there - its on the way from here to Kisumu.
Bowkers - Alban farms at 'Lion's Fountain', Kitale, where since the war he has opened a car and machinery repair workshop. He was a staff sergeant with 60 East African Reserve Motor Transport Company in the Abyssinian Campaign in the advance to Addis Ababa and Gondar. After this he was with the East African Forces in Ceylon. During the Burma Campaign he was in the Arakan jungles below Kohima and Imphal.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List has McCowan
Barnes - Kitale cem.
Gazette 31 Aug 1984 probate
Gazette 28 June 1985 wife's probate