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Name: CHAPMAN-PURCHAS, Robert Peter

Birth Date: 19 Jan 1912 Leyburn, Yorks.

Death Date: 8 May 1987 Nairobi

First Date: 1933

Profession: Farmer at Craigmore, Sotik

Area: Sotik

Married: ?Sonia Norval Sloan

Book Reference: Sitrep 2

General Information:

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 299)
Ancestry Passenger List 1955
Gazette 1 June 1937 Rex v. Robert Peter Chapman Purchas
He grew grenadillas
Gazette 21 Apr 1959 Mrs S.N. Chapman-Purchass urrendered land at Kericho (return of land grants)

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