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Name: NIVISON, Richard Gordon Douglas
Nee: 'Commander Nivison'
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1847 Middlebie, Dumfries
Death Date: 15 Aug 1917 Nairobi, cancer of the large bowel
First Date: 1905
Last Date: 1917
Profession: Farmer
Area: Kiambu
Married: In Holborn, London 29 Mar 1873 Laura Eliza Esnouf b. 1853 St Helens, Jersey, d. 20 June 1919 Nairobi
Children: Richard Gordon Douglas (28 Sep 1874 Christchurch, Hants.-1908); Maud Eliza (1876 Christchurch); Florence Laura (Mackay) (1882 Ryde, Isle of Wight)
Book Reference: EAHB 1906, North, Barnes, Red Book 1912, Gazette
General Information:
North - at Mombasa with wife 22/7/1905; Bird Licence, Ukamba Dist. July-Sept 1905
Nairobi South cemetery - R. Nivison, born 23 Nov 1847, died 15 Aug 1917 aged 69, husband of Laura Nivison
Nairobi South cemetery - Laura Eliza Nivison - died 20 June 1919 of malaria aged 56 - originally buried in grave 24 block 6 Forest Rd. wife of R Nivison, reburied with husband 4 May 1937
Red Book 1912 - R. Nivison - Kyambu
Gazette 26/9/1917 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Richard Nivison, Late of Kyambu who died at Nairobi on 15/8/1917. Applied for by Laura Eliza Nivison and Charles Newton Maberly Harrison, both of Nairobi.
Gazette - 9-5-1910 - Notice - the partnership existing between Commander Nivison RNR, Mrs Nivison and Mr Harold Chalk in respect of certain farms in the Kiambu district stands dissolved from the 1-2-1910