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Name: CONYBEARE, Charles Bruce
Nee: son of Rev, John William Edward Conybeare
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1873 Barrington, Cambs.
Death Date: 22 Aug 1940 Curdridge, Hampshire
First Date: 1908
Profession: Took up farming at Limuru, and after WW1 returned to his farming activities
Area: 1908 Cloverdale Estate Limuru - wattle
Married: In Fordington, Dorset 12 May 1912 Mabel Anne Lush b. 11 July 1877 Dorchester, Dorset, d. 31 Dec 1965 Church Crookham, Hants., midwife. They were also married on 20 June 1912 in St Stephen's, Nairobi (note on Kiambu Banns of Marriage)
Children: dau (1918)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, KAD, Red 25, Hut, EAMR, Playne, Red 22, Gazette, Eton, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Web
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - A Sqdn. 13/9/14 - 16/11/14 - Re-enlisted 26/10/15
School: Eton
General Information:
SE - C.B. Conybeare - Limoru - Mar 1909
Playne - Cloverdale Farm - There seems to be a consensus of opinion that wattle-growing is to be the thing of the future in BEA. Mr C.B. Conybeare, at least, has no doubt on that point, for one half of Cloverdale and the whole of the property at Kikuyu in which he is interested is to be put under wattle. Mr Conybeare came to BEA in 1908, and formed a private company under the name of the Limoru Estates, which also owns another farm of 412 acres at Kikuyu, on which operations have just commenced. Cloverdale, which covers 640 acres, is about one and a half miles from Limoru Station, and the railway forms the boundary on one side. There is a spring some 100 yards from the house, and a stream at the lower end of the property. The buildings are of wood and iron.
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Dagoretti - C.B. Conybeare
Eton (1889) - Is at Rangoon with the Bombay-Burmah Trading Company (1893)
Red Book 1912 - C.B. Conybeare - Kyambu
Red Book 1912 - Committee Member - Limuru Farmers' Association
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - Charles Bruce Conybeare, Settler, Limoru
Gazette 13 May 1941 probate
1939 England and Wales Register living in Droxford with wife
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