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Name: LUMSDEN, Edward Roch
Birth Date: 1854 India
Death Date: 24.5.1914 Jinja, typhoid fever
Nationality: British
First Date: 1896
Last Date: 1914
Profession: Uganda Railway accountant - seconded from Govt. of India; Member of proposed EA Volunteer Force 9/10/1896 Mombasa; home leave 1899; Snr. Accountant; Jailed for two years with hard labour 3/10/1900
Area: Mombasa
Married: 1. In Salisbury, Wilts. 13 Dec 1894 Frances Eleanor 'Maydie' Wheeler, b.16.4.1869 Salisbury, Wiltshire, d. 27.5.1900 Nairobi; 2. in England 1909 Sophia Wingrove née Waller b. 1877, d. ?1966 Havering (prev. m. Archie Victor Wingrove 1873-1900)
Children: 1. Edward Reginald 'Reggie' (1896); Francis Mervyn (1898 Salisbury) 2. Nelson Gerald (8 July 1913 Jinja-2007 Surrey)
Book Reference: North, Drumkey, CWGC, Leader14, Mills Railway
General Information:
North - Eurasian - Convicted of receiving promissory note for 8,000 rupees from Railway contractor T.W. Dallas, payable if he succeeded in getting both the original & revised invoice for the same work paid. Fraud came to light after Dallas' death & a similar fraud involving another contractor, S.N.D. Anzoulatos was discovered later.
Drumkey 1909 - Directory of Residents - E.R. Lumsden, Malindi
CWGC - Tanga European Cemetery has Clerk R.E. Lumsden, East African Railways, 6th November 1918. VII.D.3
North - at Kisumu 1-5-1904; Firearm registered at Mombasa 4-10-1905
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death in Jinja
Nairobi South cemetery Inscription: In loving memory of / Frances Eleanor / (Mayd) / the beloved wife of / Edward Lumsden / born Salisbury Wiltshire / 16th April 1869 / died Nairobi East Africa / 27th May 1900 My God my Father, while I stray / far from my home, in life's rough way / o teach me from my heart to say / "thy will be done"
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