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Name: DUNCAN, Robert Archibald

Nee: eldest son of Robert Brownlie and Margaret Ann Duncan

Birth Date: 24 Aug 1905 Dumbarton

Death Date: 30 Nov 1972 Karen

First Date: 1913

Profession: Clerk. Joined the staff of the Uganda Railway at an early age and served with them until he retired

Area: 1925 Box 98 Nairobi

Married: 1. Joan K. Ranoszek née Branch b. 1915 Wandsworth, London, d. S. Africa; 2. In Kenya 1954 Barbara Margaret Hutton b. 28.4.1923 Longuenesse, Pas de Calais, France (prev. m. to Douglas McDonald d. 1951 and dau of Arthur James Scott Hutton)

Children: 1. David (1940); Robert H. (1942) 2. Deborah Jean McDonald (12.3.1950); Andrew James (23.8.1958)

Book Reference: Gillett, Red 25, Sitrep 2, Red 31, Colonial, Red 22

School: Govt. School, Nairobi

General Information:

Colonial - Clk. KUR&H 1922; Senior Clk. 1938; Sp. Gr. 1939; Asst. Acctnt 1946

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Robert Archibald Duncan, Clerk, Civil Service, Dunlaw, Sclaters Rd., Parklands

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 42)

Gazette 18 May 1948 he wants probate for Margaret Ann Duncan, widow, late of Nairobi, who d at Edinburgh 11 Feb 1948 (his mother)

Gazette 21 Apr 1972 probate

Ancestry Passenger list 1957 Mombasa-London he is travelling with Barbara M. b. 28 Apr 1923. Also in 1960 with Barbara Margaret b. 28.4.1923 and Deborah Jean McDonald Duncan b. 12.3.1950 and Andrew James Duncan b. 23.8.1958

Blue Book 1926 appt. 1.6.1922

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