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Name: FIELDER, Reginald Alfred Daniel
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1902 Southsea, UK
Death Date: 1978 Malta [?31 Mar 1979 Hove]
First Date: 1923
Last Date: 1970
Profession: Went to Kenya to work on Mrs Stone's coffee estate at Kaimosi. Worked as assistant DC at Kakamega. Engineer but later i/c recruitment African Highlands Tea Co.
Area: Kaimosi, Kisumu, Kericho, Kisii, 1949-61 Marra Marra AHP Chemai Estate
Married: In Mombasa 1929 Helen b. 1911 UK, d. 1977 Malta
Children: Peter (1932 Kisumu)
Book Reference: EAWL, Red 31, Hut
School: Engineering Apprenticeship - Vosper Thorneycroft
General Information:
Around 1930 went on leave to England intending to find a bride. About 1938 Reg went to work for African Highlands Tea Co., on the estates around Kericho. He spent a brief spell in the Kenya Rifles during the war, but was recalled to work in the tea industry again. About 1949 Reg went to work in Kisii with Mr McInnes, recruiting labour for African Highlands and he ultimately took over from Mr McInnes.
Helen and Reg lived in Kisii until Reg retired in 1958, when they went to live on their own tea estate at Chemai, near Mara Mara, where Harry and Janet Borman lived. Helen and Reg ploughed and planted their estate, and saw it do very well. About 1970 they sold up and went to live in Malta. During their stay in Kisii they got to know Richard Gethin very well and attended his wedding to Winifred in 1953. Source: Eleanor Fielder
[Nat Probate Calendar says he died 31 Mar 1979 in Hove, Sussex]