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Name: COWAN, Edward Reilly

Birth Date: 1883 Lisburn, Ireland

Death Date: 8.11.1956 Nairobi

First Date: 1925

Last Date: 1956

Profession: Farmer, Church of Scotland Mission

Area: Keruwa Estate, Nairobi, 1930 Kabete

Married: In Kensington 1918 Ellice Maude Templer b. 2 Oct 1884 Dabaragamuwa, Ceylon, d. 1977 Bromley, London

Children: Alan Hubert (1920 Kenya); John Black Templer (18 Oct 1922-22.11.2012 Wiltshire); one daughter

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Bur, Childhood

General Information:

Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Edward Reilly Cowan, age 72, died 8/11/56
Childhood - John Cowan - "My parents and sister arrived in Kenya in 1921 and I was born on Nairobi a year later. We lived on a coffee estate at Kabete, where my father was the manager, in a wood and corrugated iron bungalow with no running water and no inside sanitation. It was our home for 14 years …….. I had been at Kenton for 2 years when, during the holidays, my mother told me I would not be returning next term. My father, more in tune with academic life than farming, had financial difficulties ……… for 6 months I lived with my parents on a farm in Sotik, where my father was estate manager. ………… Church of Scotland mission at Kikuyu, where my father was again a locum, this time as a teacher. ………. My father was developing a golf course, (still in existence as Sigona Golf Club) ………. Eventually my parents moved to Kakamega and I became a boarder at the Prince of Wales School ….."
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Edward Reilly Cowan, Planter, Kirrima Kimwe Farm, Kabete and Ellice Maud Cowan, Kirrima Kimwe Farm, Kabete
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List
Gazette 15 July 1958 probate

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