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Name: BAGOTT, Archibald John 'Jack'
Nee: nephew of Thomas Penny Robeson
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1911 Halifax
Death Date: 17 Jan 1970 Diss, Norfolk
First Date: 1927
Profession: Managed Granville coffee Estate, Thika in early 1933 after death of A.B. de Witt but it was declared bankrupt within a year
Area: Thika
Married: In Thika 1941 Olga Nellie Steen 'Nen', 'Nan' or 'Nennen', b. S. Africa , d. Norfolk 29 Nov 1966. worked in FANYs in war.
Children: Wendy Joan (1943); Priscilla Joan (1945); Peter John (1946)
Book Reference: EAWL, Wolseley-Lewis, Wendy Tyson
General Information:
Source - Mrs Ruth Norman Wolseley-Lewis - After WW2 - Jack Bagott whose place I had taken at Punda Milia, married and stayed in sisal ……..
Source - Wendy Tyson (daughter) He first went out in 1927 to work on his uncle Thomas Penny Robeson's Makindi Trading Co. farm north of Thika. Then to Punda Milia to work for Randall Swift and Ernest Rutherfoord at Makuyu. Stationed in Nairobi in WW2. Died in England in 1970.