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Name: RUNDGREN, Ture Waldemar
Birth Date: 11 June 1879 Odensvi, Sweden [?27 June]
Death Date: 2 Mar 1960 Mombasa
First Date: 1904
Last Date: 1960
Profession: First went to Kenya from his home at Odensvi, in Sweden to farm shortly before WW1, and for a few years after it, he was in partnership with Baron Bror von Blixen in a coffee estate
Area: Makuyu, 1922 Chania Bridge, Hut 1931 Odensvi Mbogo Estate Ruiru
Married: Emily Elizabeth Roberts b. 28 July 1878 Hackney, d. 9 June 1961 London (prev. m. to Col. Leonard Gorringe of Southern Sudanese Anti-Slavery Patrol)
Children: Michael (1915 Kenya-1985); Eric Ture (26 June 1918 Berwick on Tweed-1982); Clive; Peter Olof (7 Oct 1919 Kenya-2004); Britta Elizabeth (Ruck) (11 Dec 1920 Nyeri-13 Mar 2010 Mombasa); Michael John Michael Valdemar (6 June 1923 Fort Smith, Kabete-4 Mar 1992 Harare)
Book Reference: Rundgren, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, KGF, Gazette, Medals, Barnes, Chandler, Aschan
General Information:
Rundgren - Blixen had not been a satisfactory partner in the coffee estate and Ture Rundgren had started again from scratch, this time with his brother Carl at a place called Makuyu, 52 miles from Nairobi on the Nanyuki road. ........... The favourite haunt of the white hunters was still the bar in the Norfolk Hotel. Many a night Eric and his brother Clive sat outside in the family T-model Ford, waiting while their father played poker, gambling on occasions with the very land on which they lived and farmed. Much of what is now the prosperous town of Nakuru belonged to the Rundgrens before it was lost one night to a hand with 3 queens against Ture's 3 tens. ......…
1948 - Gethen (sic) & Hewlett had engaged Ture Rundgren at £150 a month as a white hunter.
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Dagoretti - T. Runtgreen [sic]
Medals - East African Intelligence Department - Warrant Officer Class 1
Barnes - Mombasa Cemetery - Ture Valdemar Rundgren, buried 3 Mar 1960 age 81 Kikambala Residence
Aschan - [Blixen's coffee farm] - the work was supervised by Blix and six European managers, among whom were the Swedes Ake Bursell, Emil Holmberg, and Ture Rundgren.
Red 25 has T. Rundgren, Nairobi
Gazette 13 Sep 1960 probate
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