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Name: FOSTER, Claude Edward (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 1.8.1876 Patna, Bengal, India
Death Date: 30.8.1952 Nairobi
First Date: 1909
Profession: Farmer
Area: Sergoit, Uasin Gishu
Married: 1. In Manhattan 11 Dec 1907 Rosita Cerda Cornwell b. 1878 Annapolis, Maryland, USA, d. 1936 Salisbury, Hants.; 2. On 3 Nov 1942 Peta Montague
Children: Alice Elizabeth Percival (6 June 1913 Penang, Malaya-14 Feb 1961 Germany) (Matthey); Cynthia Annie Percival (29 Nov 1908 Draguignan, Var, France-25 Jan 1955 Shepway, Kent) (Collis)
Book Reference: HBEA, Joelson, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Land, Barnes, SS, Red Book 1912
General Information:
Land - 1911 - C.E.P. Foster - Grazing and agricultural, 2110 acres (Farm No. 204) - Uasin Gishu - 14/6/09 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/7/09 - Registered 20/11/11
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Claude Edward Foster, died 30 Aug 1952 aged 75
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut.-Col. C.E. Foster, British Military Mission, Bucharest - Farm 1482 - Representative, A.F. Macrae, PO Box 117, Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - C.E. Foster - Uasin Gishu
Joelson - Pioneer settler in the Sergoit area - 1909.
Red 31 has Col. C.F. Foster, Sergoit
1939 England and Wales Register living, widowed, in Huntingdon