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Name: MURRAY, James Roberts

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Nee: son of William Murray, bro of George Douglas Murray

Birth Date: 6 Aug 1898 Christchurch, New Zealand

Death Date: 21 Aug 1982 Margate

First Date: 1928

Profession: ex-Army, farmer

Area: Nyeri

Married: 1. In Nairobi 1 Dec 1926 Joan Marguerite Whitworth b. 8 Dec 1902 Buckinghamshire (separated c. 1933, div. 1940s); 2. As partner and mother of his 2nd batch of 3 children Joan Florence Violet Rose Griffiths b. 23 Sep 1906 Lambeth, d. 28 Aug 1973 Salisbury, Rhodesia; 3. In Thanet 1950 Constance Brenda Simmonds b. 2 Oct 1917 Wandsworth, d. 1981 Margate

Children: 1. Nigel Roberts (1 Dec 1928 ?7 Feb 1928 Nyeri) 2. Ann Christine (7 Mar 1936 Camden-1984); Barbara Joan (21 July 1939 Wandsworth-1963); Rosemary Joy (1941 Brighton) 3. James Ian Murray (1952)

Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Baptism

School: Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand, RMC Sandhurst

General Information:

1939 England and Wales register living in Wokingham as 'Secretary Distribution Sales Assistant', with partner Joan Florence
Joan Florence changed her name to Murray by deed poll 9 July 1953 - said she had been known as such since 1935
Murray sat exam in NZ & sailed to UK to Royal Military College Sandhurst England; Commissioned 18.05.1918 Highland Light Infantry; 1919 Sikh Regiment and then to war NW Frontier Afghanistan (Waziristan); 4.1.23 Army reductions 'golden handshake'; 19.01.40 'Emergency Commission' Lieutenant the RASC. 6.10.40 posted to E Africa; Captain (Honorary Major) P/115847] [Farming 1924-27 partner in coffee maize and cattle farming in Kenya; then to England 1927 and back to Kenya; 20 January 1933 Kilima Coffee Estate Nyeri - the Kenyan Government Gazette records the dissolution of the partnership between William Murray and his son James Roberts Murray; thereafter William farms Kilima on his own.]
 Son Nigel's birthdate is recorded as 7 Feb 1928 in the baptism records for Nyeri]

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