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Name: WALSH, Aubrey Edwin Bethune
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1869 Penzance
Death Date: 29 May 1943 Torquay
First Date: 1903
Profession: Rubber in Uganda
Area: Uganda
Married: 1. In Bristol 6 Oct 1897 Elizabeth 'Bessie' Ann Dobbs b.1870 Chepstow, d. 9.9.1913 Kampala, blackwater fever; 2. In Newton Abbot 26 Apr 1915 Caroline Gamlin b. 16 June 1879 Penhow, Monmouthshire, d. 10 June 1954 Newton Abbot
Children: Isabella G. (Gibson) (20 Mar 1920)
Book Reference: North, Adventurers
General Information:
North - Arr. Mombasa from S. Africa c. March 1903; dep. Mombasa for Lake Victoria to investigate prospects for rubber production 28/3/1903; on safari in Uganda April 1903; Constructing store with E.G. Muxworthy a short distance from Kampala July 1903; Rubber Collecting Licence Entebbe 1/7/1905; Land lease application for 15 square miles Mawokota & Busiro, UP 8/10/1905
Adventurers - 1909 - Uganda - the only white settler then in Uganda
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife and dau. in Torquay