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Name: BURRELL, Stanislaus 'Stanny' DSO (Major)

Birth Date: 1881 Edlingham, Northumberland

Death Date: 23 Sep 1948 Newcastle on Tyne

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1948

Profession: Soldier settler, first farmed at Timau. Moved to Kiambu in 1920 when he was joined by his wife and son Peter and daughter Bobbie. Territorial Army; Land Agent UK; coffee farmer, Kiambu.

Area: 'Woodlands', Kiambu. Hut - 1922 Broomhill, Kiambu. Hut has 'Gonoku' Nanyuki sold to Mrs Carles

Married: In Chelsea, London 11 Apr 1912 Mildred Elinor Learoyd b. 22 Apr 1885 Kirkheaton, d. 28 Jan 1970 Kiambu

Children: Peter Geoffrey (1914-17 July 1976) (Major RE); Dorothy Elizabeth 1918 (Whetham); Daphne Barbara (Sowerby)

Book Reference: EAWL, Foster, Debrett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, DSO, SS, Red 19

War Service: France 1914-18, 1/1st Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry, D.S.O.

School: Private, Wellington College and Cirencester Royal Agric. College

General Information:

Source: Mrs D.E. Whetham and Mrs Daphne Sowerby

Foster - Known as "Gonoku", having built his house, decided to move to Kiambu for better prospects and he left Timau and Wyndham Carles, who held the farm next door, to run both; having drawn their farms one after the other, the Carles/Burrell farm was virtually run as one unit from the beginning - there being no fences in those days. Mrs Carles finally bought the Burrells out at a cost of £1 per acre in 1940 thus turning the Carles Farm into a 5,000 acre holding.

KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Kiambu Association

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major S. Burrell, DSO, Gilling Castle, Malton, Yorkshire - Farm 919

Red Book 1919 - A. Burrell - Nairobi ?

Hut has Maj. Stanley Burrell DSO married to Muriel

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List has Burrel

Gazette 22 Mar 1949 probate

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