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Name: SAVAGE, Emma Gertrude, Mrs
Nee: Skempton
Birth Date: 1873 Northampton
Death Date: 1963 Mombasa
First Date: 1922
Profession: Asst. Mistress, Education Dept.
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Northampton 1904 Patrick Walter Savage (1879-1034)
Children: Cecily Gertrude (Gray) (22 Feb 1909-1986); Philip
Book Reference: KAD, Hut, Red 22
General Information:
Hisband was a master tailor who got a job with Maxwell Brady in Nairobi. They then tried running their own store in Turbo and founded the Turi Butchery. Later they took up farming but got land miles from anywhere and they had a really tough time. Their home was little more than a mud and wattle banda and with repeated disasters to the farm they had a struggle to survive. Things like shoes for the children were a luxury they could not afford for years. It was too far to get to a school but Mrs Savage had been a school teacher so taught the children herself. The son got blackwater fever when he was 18 and they had a nightmare journey by ox cart to a hospital where he received very little care and died. Source: Mrs Ingrid Gray