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Name: HOLMES, Francis Carlton

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Nee: son of Francis Carlton Holmes

Birth Date: 13 Nov 1910 Burton on Trent, Staffs

Death Date: 6 Sep 1986 Torbay, Devon

First Date: 1910

Profession: Farmer

Married: 1. 1933 Edna Mary Evans b. 12 July 1903 Swansea, d. 12 July 1958 Limuru (dau of Edgar Evans and prev. m. Idwal Desmond Rees 1894-1930); 2. 1955 Betty Lilian Davies b. 22.8.1920 Hampstead, d. 9.9.2000 Worthing; 3. In Ealing 22 Sep1960 Jill Mary Williams b. 27.3.1933 Brentford, d. 23 May 1971 Epsom, Surrey (also m. John Mair Rolph 1919-2001 and Peter Charles Faiers 1929-1994); 4. In Exeter 1975 Irene Margaret Langford b. 6 Apr 1916, d. 1998 Plymouth

Children: 1. Yvonne Francine (Wheeler, Cheeseman, Barbour) (4 Jan 1934 Nairobi-2013); Anita (1940); Gary Michael (9 Aug 1941 Nairobi-7 May 2021 Nairobi) 2. ? (1957); Penelope (Wilkinson, Seatter) (1959) 3. Spencer Jonathan Mark (11 July 1962 Southsea-2017)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, R.H. Wheeler

School: Steyning Grammar School, W. Sussex

General Information:

Richard Wheeler - Family farmed land in Limuru. Met Edna 1933. Hotel Manager in Cape Town 1965 and worked for Joy Adamson in Kenya 1973-80. Retired with Irene to South Petherton, Devon
Richard Wheeler - Sairicari Co. motor tourists partnership at Whiteaways Building, 6th Ave., Nairobi with John Hedley Barbour dissolved 11/2/1933. Discharged bankruptcy 30/8/1946. 1946 - formerly working in HM Forces. Immediately after WW2 two new Hotels, Malindi Hotel and Eden Roc were built north of the town on the seafront. [I think Eden Roc was there in 1930s as owned by John Carberry]. Chelsea 1956-60. Cape Town 1962-71. Left Spencer with a Mrs Phillips in 1971. Worked with Irene for Joy Adamson in Kenya 1973-80. Retired 1980 with Irene to South Petherton, Devon [South Petherton is in Somerset]
 One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. In 1937. (KR 293)

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