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Name: SIM, William Aberdeen Mackay

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Photo Source: Phyllida Cockell

Birth Date: 1875 Arbroath

Death Date: 20.6.1950 Wadhurst, Sussex

First Date: 1899

Last Date: 1927

Profession: Senior partner of Messrs. Smith Mackenzie & Co., Mombasa. He was President of Mombasa Chamber of Commerce in 1908, 1913 and 1915

Area: Mombasa 1899

Married: 1. Ann b. 1877 Dundee (she was chairman of the EAWL in Mombasa 1926); 2. In Mombasa 29 Sep 1915 Zoe Jenner b. 1896 Fulham, d. 7 Dec 1979 Haslemere

Children: 1. Robert (1898 Dundee) 2. Joan Mary Mackay (15 Aug 1916 Mombasa); John Mackay (4 Oct 1917 Kensington-11 Sep 1993 Kensington); Suzanne (Gordon-Finlayson, Munn and Kennard) (20 Aug 1919 Mombasa-1992 Surrey); Janet Elizabeth (Maxwell) (14 July 1923-8 Mar 1977 Hambledon); David William Mackay (1927)

Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Seventy, Golf, EAHB 1905, KAD, Red 25, Mombasa, EAS, North, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, Medals, EAHB 1904, Red Book 1912, Red 19

War Service: 1st Batt Gordon Highlanders

General Information:

EAHB 1905 - Visiting Justice, Mombasa Jail  
KAD 22 - Committee Member, REAAA, (and Red 25)   
Red 25 - Vice-President, Mombasa Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture; President, Mombasa Sports Club.  
Mombasa - President, Mombasa Sports Club in 1912, 1919-20
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
Drumkey 1909 - Committee Member, Mombasa Sports Club
Advertiser - 12/6/1908 - Appointments - To be unofficial members of the Road Board in their respective Provinces - Seydie - W.A.M. Sim, J.E. Jones
Medals - Mombasa Defence Force - W. Mackay Sim, No. 9208, Private
North - Smith, Mackenzie & Co. Zanzibar; arr Zanzibar with wife 27/1/1898; Mombasa June 1899; transferred from Zanzibar to Mombasa June 1903
Red Book 1912 - W. Sim - Mombasa
Red Book 1919 - District Committees - Mombasa - W.A.M. Sim
Red Book 1919 - Mombasa Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture - President
Golf - Present at the formation meeting of Mombasa Golf Club in 1911

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