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Name: MONEY, Roger Noel
Nee: son of Rev. Granville Erskine Money
Birth Date: 30 Jan 1892 Byfleet, Surrey
Death Date: 13 Oct 1939 Nairobi
First Date: 1918
Last Date: 1939
Profession: Coffee planter, Ginia Estate, Makuyu
Area: Chania Bridge, 1925 Makuyu, 1930 Ginia Estate, Makuyu, 1919 Ginia Est.
Married: At Makuyu 18 June 1923 Charlotte Flora Chicheley Plowden b. 1894 Lahore, d. 20 Apr 1952 Nairobi
Children: Una Carol (16 Aug 1924 Nairobi-2007 Perth, W. Australia); Eugenia Chicheley (13 June 1926 Kenya-2007); Pamela Noel (5 May 1929 Nairobi-2008)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Pioneers, Barnes, Nicholls, R. Jolley
War Service: Indian Cavalry
School: Grange School Eastbourne, Radley College, Clare College Cambridge
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 21/8/52 - Mrs C.C. Money, widow of Roger Noel Money, has died in Nairobi
Pioneers - Sisal Ltd. - A.B. Johansen - In 1932 [sic] we had the heaviest rains ever recorded. Practically all dams and bridges were washed away and the black cotton plains were under water. That year Roger Money, a local settler, decided to get married in April, the wettest month of the year. The bride was being married from the Walker-Munros' house at Maji Kiboko, some 6 miles from the church (which was entirely built of sisal poles). She intended to reach the church in style, by car. But no cars could move so she had to be more or less carried most of the way. The cake and wine were sent for by runner - wader, more correctly - and the reception was held in my primitive bachelor shack, adorned only by a picture cut out of the Daily Mirror.
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Roger Noel Money, British, age ?, died 13/10/39
Nairobi City Park cemetery Charlotte Flora Money 1894-20 Apr 1952
Nicholls - Another farmer described how the walls of his house grew more and more dilapidated, "the dogs making doors through them at their pleasure. We had quantities of rough stone quarried out, and by dint of hewing and hacking with much grazing of hands and grunting and sweating, we built a very passable rough stone wall, cemented with mud, all round the house up to window level. Above that we built mud and wattle up to the roof, plastered with cow dung, and whitewashed. Next we put in a cement floor, all with our own fair hands, and there we were all snug again and very proud of our handiwork."
Web - Professor of English History at Mayo College, Aligarh, India 1913-16; farming in Kenya Colony from 1918
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List
Gazette 12 Aug 1952 wife's probate
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