Info from Col. Ray Nightingale - George Nightingale and his wife Mary had two children - Richard and Elizabeth who was at school with Ray Nightingale's wife. Elizabeth married a Johnson (Seychelles blood) who was a M.T. Mechanic.

Nicholls - Whites very rarely sought the friendship of Africans, though there were some exceptions to this rule - George Nightingale was one of those who had more friends among Africans than whites, two of his companions being Ndola, headman on the Kinani sisal estate, and Nganga, an employee on a maize farm at Elmenteita, but he was unusual and his conduct was frowned upon by members of his own race. When working on George Langridge's farm he was discouraged from becoming too familiar with African servants on the grounds that they had to be kept in their place in society - 'I was not told how long this convenient state of affairs was to last.'

Gazette - 8/1/1929 - Bankruptcy Ordinance - George Robert Nightingale of Nairobi - first meeting of creditors

George Nightingale Memoirs 1914-1960s Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.1951 His mother died and he went with his father to E Africa in 1914. He started work as an apprentice on George Langridge's farm.

Then worked on Powys Cobb's farm Keringet, then to Miwani Sugar Estate.

1929 locust officer in Lake Baringo area

1934 Went to the coast on elephant control. Locust control officer and then agricultural officer to a local native council concerned with wild animals damaging native crops.