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Name: SHARP, George
First Date: 1926
Last Date: 1926
Profession: Australian Miner cum prospector who went to Kenya via S. Africa.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1920 Mrs Anne Louisa Hudson (widow) (1871-1953). See her entry
Book Reference: EAWL, Gazette
General Information:
In 1926 when Anne Louisa was in England their house in Forest Road, Muthaiga, burnt to the ground with all their possessions. George Sharp claimed the insurance money and disappeared. He was never seen or heard of again. Source Mrs C. Hart
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, North Area - George Sharp - Accountant, Hunter's Buildings, 6th Avenue
Gazette - 4/6/1929 - Probate and Administration - George Sharp late of Maragua who died at Maragua on 15 July 1928. Applied for by John Knox Sharp of Nairobi.
Verging on the gross. Anna Louisa's daughters loathed him.
Christine Hart (Ann Hudson's granddaughter: John Hudson died in 1919 and left Ann almost destitute. George Sharp was a friend of her husband and she must have married him on the rebound. He had a house in Forest Road where they lived. She had returned to Britain, I think to buy stock for her embryo business, and whilst she was away there was a fire and the house was completely destroyed. George Sharp vanished with any insurance money he was able to collect and was never heard of again.