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Name: HEMSTED, Henry (Major), Dr.
Nee: bro of Stephen Oliver, Charles Selwood and Rupert William Hemsted
Birth Date: 1878 Whitchurch, Hampshire
Death Date: 15 Dec 1945 Naivasha, tick typhus
First Date: 1912-13
Profession: Farmer
Area: Nairobi, 1930 Box 545, Nairobi, Naivasha
Married: In London 29 Mar 1911 Muriel Hope Atcherley b. 6 July 1890 West Felton, Shropshire, d. 17 May 1978 Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, motor accident (later m. Charles Edward Stuart Prince b. 1893)
Children: Rupert Henry A. (1911 Christchurch, Hants.-1911); Elizabeth Gay Atcherley (10 July 1913 Weymouth); Rupert Henry Rustat (30 May 1921 Ngong, Nairobi-18 Jan 1944 Italy); Penelope Atcherley (Deane) (14 July 1922 Ngong-2 Nov 2016 S. Africa); William Richard Tobias (9 Oct 1924- 30 May 1989 Rondebosch, S. Africa)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Karen 50, Hut, Red 22, Carnelley, Barnes, Web
School: MRCS, LRCP
General Information:
Hut has Cdr. Dr. Henry Hemsted - introduced asparagus
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Alice May Muriel Hemstead, died 16 Feb 1945 age 58, European Hospital, Catholic
Web - Muriel Hope Atcherley, born 1891, died about 1979 following motor accident. 1911 - of The Grange, Welsh Frankton, Salop; 1948 - of Mombasa; 1959 - of Knysna, Cape Province. Muriel married - 1. Henry Hemsted about 4/1911, who died 14 Dec 1945. 1911 a doctor of Purewell Hill, Christchurch, Hants. 2. Charles Edward Stuart-Prince 18 Sep 1946. She had 3 children by her first husband - Rupert Henry Rustad Hemsted - died unmarried 18 Jan 1944, war service Penelope Atcherley Hemsted, born before 1927, married Mr Owen Deane before 1948 - Transvaal William Richard Tobias Hemsted, born before 1927; married Margaret; 1948 of Rondebosch, Cape Town; 1959 of Kabete Kenya, civil servant. 1959 - Mention of Stephen Tobias Rustad Hemsted of Nakuru; William's son?
KAD 1922 - On Committee of Dagoretti Settlers' Association.
Red 25 - JP, Kiambu; Major H. Hemsted, Vice-President, Kikuyu District Farmers' Association.
Karen 50 - Founder Member and Debenture Holder of Karen Club in 1937
Naivasha cemetery Henry Hemsted / died December / 15th 1945 / in / loving memory / R.I.P.
Tom Lawrence: Muriel Hope Atcherley married Dr. Henry Hemsted MD on 29th March 1911 at St Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex (he being of Purewell Hill, Christchurch, Hants). In 1912-13 she and her husband travelled to Kenya and in 1914 to Canada and the USA. In 1914 they moved to Cape Town where her husband joined the South African Medical Corps and they both joined the hospital ship Ebani, remaining with her after she was transferred to the RAMC in 1915, but later transferring to HMHS Neuralia. After the end of the WWI they emigrated once more and became coffee-planters at Chestnut Farm, Ngong in 1920 until they moved to Naivasha in the mid-1930s. After the death of Dr. Henry Hemsted on 15th Dec 1945 in Naivasha she returned to England and married again, Charles Edward Stuart-Prince (b. 1893). They went to Kenya once more but moved to South Africa in the early 1950s, where she and her husband became naturalised citizens in 1960. She died in 1978.
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