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Name: BARRANCE, Regina Julia, Mrs
Nee: Heppes, dau of Nicholas Heppes
Birth Date: 15 July 1889 Durban
Death Date: 10 Jan 1975 Johannesburg, S. Africa
First Date: 1907
Area: Wood Glen Farm, Rongai, Nakuru
Married: In Nairobi 20.2.1908 Percival John Barrance (b. 1876)
Children: Frederick John (St Albans 21.12.1908); Victor Cecil (5.8.1914 Nakuru-9.5.1935 Voi); Evelyn Adelaide (Nakuru 2.12.1910) (Sauvage); Thelma Dorothy (Nell, then Davies) (20 June 1919 Nakuru)
Book Reference: Red 31, Gillett, Pioneers, John Heppes, SKP
General Information:
She lived with her parents on a farm at Rongai, and after marriage farmed at Nakuru. Her many adventures and stories of treks in an oxcart in those early days would fill a book.
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived Jan 1907