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Name: COOK, Edward Tindall Richardson 'Buster'
Birth Date: 7 July 1904 Leeds
Death Date: 21 Dec 1986 Perth, Australia
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer, Kapsiliat 1938
Area: Makuyu, Hoey's Bridge, 1958 Endarasha Nanyuki
Married: 1. Juliette Nancy Muter/Hayes-Gratz b. 28 Feb 1917 Nairobi, d. 6 Dec 1964 Nairobi (dau. of David Muter of Muter & Oswald); 2. In Maidenhead 1930 Haidee Frances Brimacombe b. 1906 Thanet
Children: Edward T. R. (7 July 1904)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, First Wheel, Gillett, Rundgren
General Information:
First Wheel - 1927 - "Buster has laid on a hunt for you [Bunny Allen] this coming weekend. He is off to Embu on the lower slopes of Mount Kenya." Buster Cook was a school friend of ours who had come out to Kenya with Ba the previous year. …………."Buster arrived right on the dot of the time he had intimated that he would come for me. His car was a box-body of mixed parentage, but looked very smart and well-cared for. Let me explain; Buster was a "well-clued-up" mechanic. Everything he had was well-cared-for and had the extreme merit of functioning..
Gazette - 24/1/1933 - Brand registered in quarter ending 31/12/1933 - Edward Tindall Richardson Cook, PO Hoeys Bridge, C1
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll has Tindal
Gazette 2 Mar 1965 wife's probate
1939 England and Wales Register divorced and living with son in Solihull
There is a marriage in Maidenhead 1930 between Edward T.R. Cook and Haidee Frances Brimacombe, but she (aged 26) travels to Mombasa with John Victor Cook aged 24 in 1932 (Ancestry) She must have married the son.
Ancestry Family Tree has Edward Tindakk Cook b. c. 1880 marrying Beatrice Richardson b. c. 1881 Crewe, and they had a son Harold Foden Cook b. 1906 West Ham.