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From: Hugh Watkins <>
Subject: Re: [Mon] RE: Need history lesson
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:11:22 +0000
References: <20051008115102.53979.qmail@web60117.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051008115102.53979.qmail@web60117.mail.yahoo.com>


the best source for this is your local central library for The Times
(of London) digital archive

see what was in the papers the week before the letter was written

search for obituaries if upper mifddle class for example

google
east africa history 1950

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22east+africa%22+history+1950&btnG=Search
is beteter

The British East Africa Company (from Kenya, history of ...
The British East Africa Company (from Kenya, history of) In 1883 Joseph Thomson,
... West African colonies moved swiftly toward independence in the 1950s, ...
www.britannica.com/eb/article-38089 -

Mau Mau emergency in the 1950s

Culture Home Page
... rights set off a violent reaction during the Mau Mau emergency in the 1950s.
... ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST AFRICA, edited by Bethwell A. Ogot ...
www.kenyahighcommission.com/ Culture%20&%20History/history.htm - 51k -
Cached - Similar pages

Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: History: The Mau-Mau and the end ...
You are here: Home > History: The Mau-Mau and the end of the Colony ...
European children of the 1950's only had access to one version of the story, ...
www.kenyalogy.com/eng/info/histo13.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

A Brief History of Kenya
The status of the East Africa Protectorate is changed to the Kenya Colony and
the coastal ... which culminated in the Mau Mau uprising of the early 1950s. ...
kenya.com/history.html - 54k - Cached - Similar pages

East Africa Living Encyclopedia
In 1950, a leader of the Luo (the second largest ethnic group), Oginga Odinga,
joined the KAU ... The Mau Mau, a secret society largely composed of Kikuyu, ...
www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/khistory.htm -


enjoy

Hugh W


On 10/8/05, Pamela J. Nixon <> wrote:
> Dear listers,
> I need some history information. I have a letter dated November 13, 1950 written by Kate Morris nee Mack who was living at 112 Lewis St, Crumlin. The letter was written to a cousin, Johanna Downey Gallagher in the States. Kate was married to a Thomas Powell Morris in 1904 in Newport. He passed away before the letter was written.
> In the letter, Kate mentions the Korean War and she talks about her son (name unknown) being in East Africa. Was there something going on militarily in East Africa at that time that the British were involved in? And if so, is there an index of names of men involved there that I would be able to access to look for a Morris name?
> Sincerely,
> Pam (Mack) Nixon
> Westland, Pennsylvania USA
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