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Name: NYE CHART, Harry Rentle 'Harry'

Nee: son of Ernest Frederick William Nye-Chart

Birth Date: 11.12.1904 East London, S. Africa

Death Date: 27 Nov 1972 Mombasa

First Date: 1908 - on SS Adolf Woermann

Profession: Satima Farm, Oleondo Farm, Stag's Head Nakuru

Area: Gilgil

Married: 1946 Margaret MacIntosh, later m. Beric Henry Brooksbank

Children: Jennifer Margaret (17.01.1947-11.08.1950 accident at Stag's Head Hotel when a wrought iron gate with which she was playing fell on her)

Book Reference: Hut, Red Book 1912, RS, Red 22, Bruce Rooken-Smith

General Information:

Red Book 1912 - H.R.N. Chart - Nairobi

Red 22 - H.R.N. Chart, Mombasa

Gazette 26 Jan 1873 probate

Bruce Rooken-Smith Harry and Margaret farmed at Gilgil and retired to Mombasa, when their farm was taken over after Kenya's independence.

After her husband's death Margaret married in England Beric Henry Brooksbank, a retired farmer who had grown coffee in Kitale.