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Name: SYSON, William Smith (Rev. Father)
Birth Date: 5.3.1876 Standgate, Kent
Death Date: 19.3.1970 Canterbury
First Date: 1909
Profession: Church Missionary Society missionary. Founded Teso Boys' High School
Area: Teso, Uganda
Married: In Hougham-in-Dover, Kent 10.11.1909 Mabel Rigden b. 14.6.1880 Dover, d. 25.10.1949 Weymouth
Children: dau. d. in infancy (Namirembe); Stanley Harvey (25 Feb 1912 Kampala-7 May 1990 S. Africa); Kathleen Mary (Bounds) (13 Feb 1917 Namirembe-25 July 2003 Devon); Joyce Muriel (twin, 13 Feb 1917 Namirembe-29 July 2006 Uckfield)
Book Reference: Roome, Red 22, Rabai, Barnes, Red Book 1912, North
General Information:
Red 22 - CMS, Ngora, Mbale
Rabai - In 1909 when Mr W.S. Syson decided that, since Nandi people were not at all interested in school education, an agricultural course might appeal to them, he failed to realise that as pastoralists they considered crop growing beneath them.
St Paul's Namirembe cemetery - in memory of the infant daughter of William S. and Mabel Syson of such is the kingdom of heaven (no dates)
Red Book 1912 - W.S. Syson - Nandi