EAHB 1907 - A. Cooke - Nairobi

Hut has A. Cooke (2)  'Gus' 1922 Nakuru

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 7 Oct 1917 - A. Cooke

Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - A. Cooke (Senior) - Farmer - Nakuru

Red 22 - A. Cook (Senr.)

Red 31 has A. Cooke  (Senr.)

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List Rift Valley farmer, Nakuru with Lilian Clara - his son?

Dunkley - Born 1894 on a tea estate near Ranchi in India. Went to school in Darjeeling. Aged about 16 arrived in Mombasa in 1910 with a collection of sporting guns, to go as a farm pupil in the Nakuru area, Rift Valley Province. For the first 3 months was paid nothing, for the next 3 months £3 per month, which was not enough to live on, and he had to sell his elephant gun to survive. Joined up in 1914 in the East African Mounted Rifles and earned a DCM for his action at the battle of Longido in carrying a wounded comrade to safety, under heavy enemy fire. Returned post war to farm in Kenya and had his own farm beside Lake Nakuru, went bust in 1933 during the depression. In 1939 he was the senior grader at the Pyrethrum Board in Nakuru and this badly affected his health. Died in 1959 largely of the after effects of blackwater fever contracted in earlier years. Married about 1920 to Olga Leadley, an orphan English girl who was nurse to the Clutterbuck family. The honeymoon was spent on a safari by oxcart along the shores of Lake Nakuru, at that time teeming with game. Son Peter born 1924; daughter Joan 1923; Michael 1925; and another daughter who died very young. Family papers in possession of Peter Cooke unfortunately only consist of the following:- 1. Foolscap book comprising Game diaries 1935-42, Newspaper articles 1935-42. 2. Loose newspaper articles and letters 1937-42. 3. 6 books of old faded photographs - many not labelled. 4. Sundry newspaper articles etc. on cricket, hockey etc. fixtures 1939-42. The articles, letters and photos relate almost exclusively to Gus Cooke's avid interest in bird shooting, gun dogs and gun dog trials, and to trout fishing. Well written, and very entertaining, and of interest to ornithologists and fishermen, but nor very revealing on the problems, successes and failures of the farming community at that period of Kenya's history. All papers in the possession of - Peter Cooke, 836 Old Main Road, Cowies Hill, Natal 3610, South Africa.

Horizon - a spare, wiry, athletic man, when I first met him, with a penchant for fun and jollity. He was a great leader of youth and when he wasn't working he gave himself with generous enthusiasm to young people and the promotion of sport of every sort ........ a great raconteur of bushveld stories ...... he was one of a patrol, in WW1 in Tanganyika, led by Spencer Tryon.

Red 22 - Augustine Cook, Nakuru

Red Book 1912 - A. Cooke - Naivasha

Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - Augustine Cooke - Farmer - Nakuru

Nakuru North cemetery - beloved husband Augustine Charles Cooke, died 21/10/1959 aged 65 and of Phyllis Cooke - 31/7/1921 - 6/6/1923

Red 31 has A. Cooke  (Jnr.)

With Lilian Clara? - Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List