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Name: HOPLEY, Oswald Eric

Nee: half bro of Frederick Rice Hamilton Hopley

Birth Date: 27 Mar 1893 Johannesburg, S. Africa

Death Date: 27 Mar 1970 S. Africa

First Date: 1922

Profession: Farmed at Subukia

Area: Subukia, KAD 1922 Njoro, 1922 Silikia Valley

Married: 1. In Kimberley 20 Jan 1920 Ida Jennings b. 1889 Krugersdorp, Gauteng, d. 25 Dec 1957 Harare; 2. Phyllis Angus; 3. In Kenya Maria Frederika 'Freda' Schipper Ellis, b. 7 Oct 1901, d. 2 July 1992 Somerset West, S. Africa (prev. m. Rowland Sinclair 1900-1951)

Children: Nesta Ida (Luckhurst) (25 Mar 1924 Nakuru-22 July 1990 Harare); Violet Austin (Maxwell) (25 Mar 1924 Kenya); Rodney Oswald Eric (27 July 1925 Nakuru-2009 Zimbabwe)

Book Reference: EAWL, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Foster

General Information:

Memoirs of the Tennent family - 'Fred had a brother, Oswald, who lived on the farm at Subukia where Jean [Tennent] had first had her appendix diagnosed. Oswald was known locally as 'Bwana Ngufu' (the strong man) and had been known  to enter a stable, move underneath a horse and lift it off the ground.
Foster - 1960 representative of Solai on Nakuru and District Chaplaincy Council
Red 25 has O.E. Hopley, Farm 932, Salikia Valley, Nakuru.
Red 31 has O.E. Hopley, Subukia
Gazette 6 Dec 1938, Rift Valley Voters List

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