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Name: SAMUEL, Arthur Hentschel
Nee: born as Werner Joseph Heinrich Stephan
Birth Date: 22.3.1911 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Death Date: 24.9.2002 Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
First Date: 1927
Last Date: 1963
Profession: EAR&H Rolling Stock Controller
Area: Nairobi, Kitale, Tabora
Married: 1. Lottie Pinches (div.); 2. Margaret Vera Bignell b. 4.1.1922, d. 10.2.1988 Worthing (div. 1967)
Children: Martin Howard (Mombasa 13.7.1949)
Book Reference: EAWL
War Service: EA Campaign in WW2
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List as salesman, Kitale
Ancestry Passenger list London-Mombasa 10 Aug 1956
Martin H. Samuel (son) My mother (Margaret Vera Samuel, née Bignell) divorced my father (when I was 18) after she learned the truth of his early life... He was actually born on the 22nd March 1911 as Werner Joseph Heinrich Stephan, of an English mother, Lilian Stephan, née Crasley and German father, Joseph Stephan (both Catholic), in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His parents left Germany for England, where they obtained British passports, and my father became Arthur Hentschel Samuel, born in Eastbourne. The family emigrated to Tanganyika (then German East Africa) and my father 'imported' and later married Lottie, his childhood sweetheart from Germany.
My father started working with EAR&H (East African Railways and Harbours) as a TTI (Traveling Ticket Inspector). As the coaches had no connecting doors, he had to jump off, run alongside and jump back on the train whenever it slowed on a bend or a hill. This is the same railway line, then alive with lions, which goes through what became Tsavo game reserve. He ended up in the EAR&H Control Office, Nairobi.
A few years after my mother divorced my father, he and Lottie were reunited in S. Africa, through Russie Potgieter, a mutual friend from Kitale, Kenya, and continued living together in; Germany, Spain and, briefly, Sydney, Australia.
Martin H. Samuel (son) My mother (Margaret Vera Samuel, née Bignell) divorced my father (when I was 18) after she learned the truth of his early life... He was actually born on the 22nd March 1911 as Werner Joseph Heinrich Stephan, of an English mother, Lilian Stephan, née Crasley and German father, Joseph Stephan (both Catholic), in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His parents left Germany for England, where they obtained British passports, and my father became Arthur Hentschel Samuel, born in Eastbourne. The family emigrated to Tanganyika (then German East Africa) and my father 'imported' and later married Lottie, his childhood sweetheart from Germany.
My father started working with EAR&H (East African Railways and Harbours) as a TTI (Traveling Ticket Inspector). As the coaches had no connecting doors, he had to jump off, run alongside and jump back on the train whenever it slowed on a bend or a hill. This is the same railway line, then alive with lions, which goes through what became Tsavo game reserve. He ended up in the EAR&H Control Office, Nairobi.
A few years after my mother divorced my father, he and Lottie were reunited in S. Africa, through Russie Potgieter, a mutual friend from Kitale, Kenya, and continued living together in; Germany, Spain and, briefly, Sydney, Australia.