484. Sir Walter Harragin K.C.M.G.
Chief Justice of Gold Coast.
493. Francis Robert Anthony Austin
He married Evelyn Barber (1899-1940) in 1920 and they had a daughter Lona, a son Francis William ( -1926), and a second daughter, Joan. Francis married, second, Maude Nellie (1910-1991). Francis and Maude both died in Melbourne.
503. Ware Stuart Austin
He was born in Burghersdorp, Cape Province, South Africa. At the outbreak of World War I, when only 16 years old, Ware Stuart enlisted for army service, giving his age as 18. He served with the South African Light Infantry in North Africa and later with the South African Artillery in France. On his return he was employed by the South African Railways as a pointsman (he had had no secondary education). Through self-study he rose to the position of foreman at Durban Central Railway Station. He took early retirement in 1946, it is believed as a consequence of mustard gas poisoning during his war service. Subsequently he had various clerical jobs and indulged in his hobby of building radio equipment. Ware Stuart was a keen tennis player. He was known as ‘Horace’ by friends and relatives. He married first Amy Muriel Johnstone Stuart and they had three children. He married second, in about 1938, Wilhelmina Adriaan Carelse, née Engelbrecht (1909-1981), a widow with two children, and there were two children from this marriage. Wilhelmina called ‘Horace’ by the familiar name ‘Pal’.
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505. Wiltshire Francis Ware-Austin
He was born in Grahamstown, South Africa and in 1928 married Mary MacDonald Dall (1901-1967) from Johannesburg. They had one child. Wiltshire Francis worked in a solicitors office in Nairobi. He became an army Captain in World War II. Some years after the war he moved to Simonstown, Cape Province, South Africa, where he worked in the naval dockyard there. He died in England.
506. Marjorie Frances Ware-Austin
She was born in Grahamstown, South Africa and in 1925, in Nairobi, married Robert Menzies Dewar of Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland, a professional engineer. After marrying, they lived for many years in Kenya, though later in Cape Town, South Africa. They had three children, Roy Douglas, born in 1926 in Nairobi, Wendy Patricia Rosemary, born in 1930 in Nairobi, and Marjorie Jennifer Carina, born in 1937, also in Nairobi. Roy Douglas married Sally Katharine Jane Robinson of Mombasa, in that city, in 1951, and they have three children, Robert John Douglas, born in 1955 in Kampala, Uganda, Mark Stephen, born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1956, and Gordon Neil, born in Nairobi in 1960. Wendy Patricia and Sally Katharine attended Kenya Girls High School in Nairobi where one of their teachers was Dora Burslem, co-author of ‘An Old Colonial Family, 1685-1900’. In 1954 Wendy Patricia married John Berry Blacklaws of Nairobi, who served in the Royal Marines during World War II and became a ‘white hunter’ in Kenya, and they have two sons, John Roy and Alan Bruce. After their mother died, these boys were brought up by their Aunt, Marjorie Jennifer. Both are married and each has two children. John Roy married Dorothy Onions and their children are David and Jessica. Alan Bruce married Linda and their children are Bruce and Jason. Marjorie Jennifer married Walter Oscar Gove of Nairobi in that city in 1959 and they have two daughters, Juanita and Nicolette Mae. Juanita married Kenneth Geraghty and they have two children, Nicholas and Jaimie Beth. Nicolette Mae married and had a son Andrew James, but he and his father were killed in a car accident when the boy was only three years old. Marjorie Jennifer and Oscar live in the Western Cape area of South Africa.
He was born in Jeppe, Johannesburg. In 1947 he married, in Nairobi, Patricia Ida Maureen Davis from Nakuru, Kenya. They had three children. Noel Stanton worked for many years for East African Posts and Telegraphs in Kenya, moving to England in 1969 to work at Bitton, near Bristol. Both Noel Stanton and his wife died in England.
509. George Gordon Austin
He was born in Lancing, Surrey and attempted to join the forces at the age of 15, was later enlisted and earned the M.M. for bravery. He married first Beatrice Esther Kemp (1900-1994) and they had one child. He left Beatrice for Joyce Wilson (1922-1997) whom he later married. There were no children from this second marriage.
She married Cecil Sidney Wiffen (-2001) in 1939, and they had two children, Graham and David. Cecil was in the oil industry and often worked overseas. He and his wife died accidentally of carbon monoxide poisoning in 2001
519. Henry Christopher Wentworth Austin
He was born in Pretoria and educated at his father’s school. He worked in the mines and later was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, serving in London, East Africa and Sri Lanka. Known as Kit, he married Eve Stewart (1910-1987), née Drunsfield in 1947 and they had a daughter, Felicity Ann, known as Liza. Kit and Eve separated in 1951 and in 1953 Kit married Joan Gertrude Stucke. He and Joan have three children. He divorced his wife in 1966, retired to Capetown, where he died in 1982. In 1951 Eve married James Hollingshead (1913- ), who had emigrated from Britain in 1950, and her daughter Liza assumed her stepfather’s surname.
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