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.

Letter from Christine Hart (granddaughter) 16 Nov 1994: John Hudson died in 1919 and left his wife Anne almost destitute. She had returned to England to see her children who had spent the war years there. She was away when news came of her husband's death. She returned to Kenya with her two girls and met up with George Sharp who had been a crony of John Hudson's. He was an Australian miner cum prospector who had come to Kenya via South Africa. I suppose he must have offered her some sort of security, although with the benefit of hindsight a chalk and cheese picture emerges. She was very fastidious, he verging on the gross. Her daughters loathed him. They lived in a house in Forest Road. Both girls had secretarial jobs and by now Hudson's Ltd. was hatched and developing very promising plumage. In 1926 Anne Hudson again returned to England, this time to do some buying for the shop. Her daughter Sylvia was left in charge of the business and went to live with her aunt as she could not bear to remain in the Forest Road house with Sharp. One day from their house on the hill they saw smoke billowing into the sky and remarked that it must be a serious fire. It was the Forest Road house which was burnt to the ground along with most of their possessions. George Sharp claimed the insurance money and disappeared. They always believed he started the fire deliberately. He was never seen nor heard of again until the day she died and so Anne Hudson did not know whether she was still married or a widow. They were all pretty relieved that he was out of their lives and no effort was made to find out what had happened to him.