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Name: MUSGRAVE, Geoffrey

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Nee: son of Horace E. Musgrave and Cecilia E. Ross (sister of Dr. Philip Hedgeland Ross)

Birth Date: 27 Apr 1896 Christchurch, New Zealand

Death Date: 23 July 1979 Fish Hoek, S. Africa

First Date: 1920 Sep

Last Date: 1934

Area: Molo, 1937 Kipkarren

Married: 1929 Cecily Heaton b. 10 Oct 1900 London, d. 28 Aug 1979 Fish Hoek, S. Africa

Children: no

Book Reference: Red 25, Hut, Curtis

General Information:

Curtis - p. 143 - 'The Kakamega Gold Rush' by John L. Riddoch - ' '........ paid handsomely for their mining rights by Tanganyika Concessions, who also paid £50,000 to a Mr Musgrave for his reef.
Geoffrey Bremner: Corporal in 16th Reinforcements, NZ.E.F. 1915. Wounded in his hand at the Battle of Messines 7 June 1917. Arrived in Kenya Sep 1920. Christmas with Mr & Mrs Gilroy then stayed at few days with Delamere. 1921 employed by government repairing road to the Nairobi abattoir. Later in 1921 Geoffrey joined Edward Powys Cobb earning £30 a month but the farm went into liquidation in 1924. Geoffrey's brother Max joined him in 1923 at Keringel. Possibly both brothers out of a job headed to Turbo. Mar 1924 Max with Dr. Wetherell, Blackbird Farm, Turbo Valley, Kenya, a coffee farm, very hot after Keringel, growing mealies, 150 acres coffee, 300 acres maise, drought-like, NE of Lake Victoria, at the foot of Mt. Elgon, Max left Kenya 1925.1930 G Musgrave listed as a farmer in Turbo.1931 G Musgrave had a registered claim in Kakamega.1934 G Musgrave sold claim to the Rostermann consortium and left Kenya for good.

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