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Name: SANDS, Arthur Buchanan
Nee: bro of Kenneth Oswald Tatham Sands
Birth Date: 5 Sep 1887 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Death Date: 4 Jan 1947 Nairobi
Nationality: Australian
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1947
Profession: Auctioneer, started working for Newland & Tarlton in 1922
Area: Box 513, Nairobi, 1930 Box 573, Nairobi
Married: 1. In New Zealand 11 Apr 1912 (div. 1921) Adelaide Ethel 'Etty' Orchard LRCP, LRCS, LPPS b. 4 Oct 1881 Shepparton, Victoria, d. 27 Apr 1966 Christchurch, NZ; 2. In Mombasa 30 July 1924 Ivee Gladys Stephen b. 1891 England, d. 11 Jan 1965 Nairobi
Children: 2. Jean Kathleen (Semini) (30 Dec 1929 Nairobi-6 Jan 1992); William Robert 'Rod' (25 Dec 1930 Nairobi-1991 Crows Nest, Queensland); John 'Jack' Steven (twins) (25 Dec 1930 Nairobi-killed in air collision near Cambridge 2 July 1951)
Book Reference: EAWL, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Red 22, Barnes, Sundown, Elephant People
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters' list Gladys Ivee
Letter from Victor Kane - A big man, Australian, a well known auctioneer. He had his auction mart/produce/livestock store on Sadler Street almost behind the Nairobi vegetable market. His eldest sons were twins (Rod and Jack from memory) and being of age when war broke out in 1939 they went to UK and joined the RAF but both were killed very early on. [Is this incorrect?] I am unable to recall the circumstances but I knew AB his family and at least 90% of Nairobi's population felt the loss and were sad for months. He had a daughter Jean, married Brown - sons - Ted, Bill and Jimmy and his cousin Ken farmed at Sultan Hamud. AB rode a bicycle during the petrol rationing of the war from his home on the Ngong Road to work and back daily. As I have mentioned he was a big man and I can remember some of his lighter moments were watching a number of his youngsters feeling the tyres of his bicycle and being surprised that they remained hard when he put his weight on them.
Nairobi City Park cemetery Arthur Buchanan Sands, died 4 Jan 1947 aged 59 AND Gladys Ivee Sands, died 11 Jan 1965 aged 74, buried in the same grave. Inscription: in ever loving memory / of / Arthur Buchanan Sands / 1887 - 1947 / "he fought against odds. he struggled uphill. he has fairly / earned his season of rest
Nairobi City Park cemetery Catherine Mary Sands b. 1864, d. 10 June 1949 Nairobi (his mother)
Kitale cemetery - Edward Buchanan Sands - born 1925, died 26 Nov 1966
Langata cemetery, Nairobi Dorothy Clara / Sands / died 7.9.62 / age 65 / in a car accident. [Sands' sister was Dorothy Clara b. 1897]
KAD 1922 - c/o Newland Tarlton & Co.
Sundown - Neighbours of the Woodleys on the Athi Plains in the 30's.
Gazette 13 May 1947 probate required by Gladys Ivee Sands
Gazette 13 Nov 1962 probate for Dorothy Clara Sands who d. Machakos 17 Sep 1962 required by Gladys Ivee Sandys
Gazette 9 Feb 1965 Gladys's probate
Ancestry Family Tree says he m. Edith Frances 'Daisy' Hooker b. 14 Aug 1893 Southampton, d. 26 Feb 1984 Somerton Park, S. Australia. There were 3 sons born 1918, 1920 and 1922, but they appear to have the surname Jones and are indeed sons of Harry Richard Jones. The entry looks erroneous.
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