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Name: FINDLAY, Hugh Carswell MC

Nee: son of James George and Flora Findlay

Birth Date: 22 Jan 1895 India

Death Date: 18 Jan 1944 Kiambu

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1944

Profession: Planter

Area: Waitangi Estate Kiambu

Married: In Chelsea 1920 Constance Touche b. 9.12.1897 Burma, d. 17.7.1952 Kiambu

Children: Florence Elizabeth 'Betty' (Foottit) (2 Jan 1921 Nairobi-6 Nov 1995 Lochalsh); Joan Margaret (Wise) (28 Dec 1921 Kenya-2002 Helensburgh); Anne Constance (Barrett) (1923 Godstone-8 Sep 2016); Dorothy (Hart)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Bur, Red 22, Web, Barnes

War Service: WW1 with EAMR - MGS 7/9/14 - To KAR

General Information:

St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - Hugh Carswell Findlay, died 18th January 1944, aged 48 ……………… his wife Constance born 9/12/1897, died 17/7/1982
Web - Migaa Estate - The Findlays of Kiambu - Hugh Findlay owned the Waitangi Coffee Estate. Claire Foottit, Hugh Findlay's granddaughter writes this about her grandparents: "Hugh and Constance (née Touche) also known as Connie and Mouse, Findlay were coffee planters on Waitangi Estate. They had 4 daughters - Betty (married to Derek Foottit who was in the agricultural department in the Colonial Administration), Joan (married to Phil Wise), Anne (married to Ted Barrett) and Dorothy 'Dot' (married to Roy Hart). The Wises left Kenya in 1960 and my parents the Foottits left Kenya in 1963. Claire Foottit remembers - "My grandfather was a keen polo player and my aunt Joan related stories of riding up into the Kikuyu Reserve which either was on the boundary with Waitangi or not far away. My grandfather died young and is buried in St Peter's [Paul's] churchyard, Kiambu. His gravestone is adjacent to Lord Erroll's. After my grandfather died my grandmother ran Waitangi until 1972, when, after Ronald's death, she left Kenya and the farm was sold to Brooke Bond.
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - Hugh Carswell Findlay - Coffee Planter, Waitangi - Kiambu and Constance Findlay - Waitangi - Kiambu
Red 31 has H.S. Findlay, Waitangi, Kiambu
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List has Caswell

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