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Name: HILLYAR, Charles William

Birth Date: 1905 Much Wenlock, Shropshire

Death Date: 12 Dec 1995 Cape Town

First Date: 1924

Last Date: 1982

Profession: Farmer in Naivasha - Barterholm Farm, North Lake; on local agricultural committees and worked for Agricultural Finance Corporation

Area: Naivasha, Kitale

Married: 1. In Nairobi 1935 Angela Helen Walton-Knight b. 1905 Burdewan, India, d. 3 Sep 1965 Naivasha, aneurism (a Lady MacMillan nurse, ran school at Naivasha, had MS); 2. In 1972 Madge Southon formerly Carpenter née Tinney b. 24 Aug 1918 Gloucester, d. 26/7 Aug 1996 Knysna, S. Africa (formerly m. Andrew Wingate Carpenter 1910-1998 and Ronald Dudley Southon 1890-1968)

Children: Jane (1936-1942); William George Roland (1937 Nairobi); Elizabeth Helen (1940); Robin Charles (1942); Angela Marion (1944); Sally Ann; Carol Rosemary (1947)

Book Reference: EAWL, Howarth, Frampton, Women 1/96, Hut, Wolseley-Lewis, Carnelley, Childhood

School: Kelly College, Tavistock, Devon

General Information:

Wolseley-Lewis - Charlie Hillyar, who had a big piggery down near the Lake [Naivasha]. Charlie was a relation of Harvey who had started condensing steam on Eburru. He was married to Angela who had multiple sclerosis

Carnelley - 1931 - Farm Manager, Naivasha

Childhood - Bill Hillyar - "My father, Charles Hillyar, came from Devon to Kenya in 1924 to work for the Dunn brothers, one of whom was a retired architect and the other a retired doctor who still practised medicine locally. The Dunns owned Barterholm Farm on the north side of Lake Naivasha and needed a young man to assist them."

Gazette 6 Dec 1938, Rift Valley Voters List

Gazette 19 Oct 1965 wife's probate

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