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Name: TARTE, Ernest Edmund Frederick
Nee: bro of Theodore Edmund Tarte
Birth Date: 1864 Sandgate, Kent, bapt. 7 Dec
Death Date: 7 Dec 1935 Southampton
First Date: 1900
Profession: Merchant
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Westminster, London 17 Dec 1903 Ada Rose Tarte [sic] b. 14 Feb 1869 Brighton, d. 19 July 1952 Staines
Book Reference: North, Playne, Gazette
General Information:
North - Trader - Railhead Feb 1900; Taveta 2/6/1900; Issued with Settler's Game Licence at Nairobi 30/1/1901; at 1st meeting of "Committee of Europeans", Nairobi 4/1/1902; formed firm of Marcus, Tarte & Co. with I. Marcus; partnership dissolved 27/4/1903. Firm declared bankrupt 31/3/1903; Marcus to continue business alone
Playne - Mr J. Marcus came to BEA from India in 1899, and began to export local produce, mostly potatoes, trading as Marcus, Tarte & Co. The partnership was dissolved in 1903, since when, in his own name, he has acted as commission agent and local produce buyer and seller. His business located in large stone premises in Government Road. Also had 2 houses in Parklands and 300-acre farm on Fort Hall Road 10 miles from Nairobi.
Gazette - 17/12/1902 - Plague compensation after bubonic plague in March 1902 - E.E.F. Tarte Rs 25
He was the first Jew in Nairobi until Michael Harrtz arrived in 1901.