by Christine Nicholls | Dec 22, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
Merry Christmas, Everyone! Briton versus Boer: Educational Tensions in the Trans-Nzoia After the Second World War, the British Government encouraged white settlers to go to the Trans-Nzoia area and Uganda. Of course this increased the number of children to be...
by Christine Nicholls | Nov 20, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
Early White Settlers from Britain in Trans-Nzoia Mrs Gladys Hoey reached the plateau in 1913, arriving with her father in an ox wagon. Her future husband, Cecil, later a breeder of racehorses, had reached the Nzoia river in 1904 when on a hunting expedition....
by Christine Nicholls | Nov 4, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
There is a map of the Trans Nzoia area in 1908, which showed numerous potential farms delineated by metal beacons stuck in the ground. A survey had been done to encourage white settlers to come to the area. Kitale appeared as a rectangle three miles by two, but in...
by Christine Nicholls | Oct 1, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
Many of you will have heard of John Henry Patterson, the man who shot the man-eating lions threatening the workers on the Mombasa-Lake Victoria railway line. He was in charge of building the railway bridge across the Tsavo River when the lions went on their murderous...
by Christine Nicholls | Aug 25, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
Last month I talked about why the 3rd Lord Delamere decided to settle in Kenya. He brought with him his new wife, Florence, daughter of the Earl of Enniskillen, a member of a prominent Ulster family. How did this very young member of the Irish aristocracy fare?...
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