Curtis - 'Likoni Model Dairies' by Doris Morgan '......... My first personal memory is of falling out of a tree at the coffee farm at Ndarugu where Mummy and Daddy moved to try their hand at coffee farming. My next memory is accompanying my sisters on the ox-wagon to Thika Station from where they caught the train to Nairobi to go to school at the Loreto Convent. Times became very hard for my dear parents. Coffee prices reached rock bottom and the mortgagee foreclosed. I well remember walking with Daddy from the coffee factory and meeting Mummy with tears pouring down her face carrying the dreaded letter telling them that they must give up the farm. After leaving Ndarugu, having lost everything, my parents rented the huge rambling wooden house in the middle of a coffee estate at what was then the end of Riverside Drive in Nairobi belonging to people called Watcham. Whilst Daddy took out safaris, Mummy worked like a beaver in an effort to recoup some of our lost fortunes. She started a dairy and built rondavels in the garden on one side of the main house and these she let. Here came Joy Nelson and her mother Helen (Joy is now Joy Mayers). We grew up as sisters. Two others, Bluebell and Noel Birdsey, must have been about seven and nine, but I can't remember why they came to live with us. .... Daddy would bring his safari people to Riverside dressed in their khaki safari outfits, with their large cork helmets with flannel hanging over the back of their necks. I remember George Law, publisher of 'The Scotsman', Mr and Mrs Heinz of the 57 varieties, the Cherry Keartons and their chimpanzee, and many others.  In spite of all our dear parents' hard work they failed to prosper, and in 1930 or 1931 we moved down to Mombasa ...... To Likoni to live ..... my parents, in partnership with Russell Douglas, started the Likoni Model Dairies .......... A noted Professional Hunter.  

Manual - 'who has had a very long experience as an African hunter says - "I came to Africa in 1901 ..... The last 15 years I have spent in BEA..….. "

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Machakos - R. Bowring, Donyo Sabuk, Thika

Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Richard Charles Bowring, age 62, died 31/10/1945 AND Grace MacGregor Bowring, age 62, died 29/7/1952

Chandler - A Kenya professional hunter from 1911-1936.

Obituary in the Tanganyika Standard - 5 Nov 1945, p.4

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Ukamba Area - Richard Bowring - Farmer, Donyo Sabuk and Grace M. Bowring - Married woman, Donyo Sabuk

Red Book 1919 - R. Bowring - Settler, Donyo Sabuk, Chania Bridge

Langata cemetery, Nairobi Gladys Marina Hughes / (née Bowring) / 14.6.1914 - 7.9.1973