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Name: HARRAP, June Doreen, Mrs

Nee: Hambidge, dau. of Louis Roby Hambidge

Birth Date: 9 Aug 1924 Kitale

First Date: 1924

Last Date: 1975

Profession: Taught art at Kenya High School, worked on EA Standard women's page and then in Education Department, Nairobi

Area: Kitale, Thomson's Falls, Eldoret, Nakuru, Mombasa, Nairobi

Married: 1948 Kenneth Douglas Harrap (1919-1994) - 4th Bn. KAR, later joined Labour Dept.

Children: David Louis John (2.2.1949); Dorothy Mary (20.12.1952); Stephen Peter

Book Reference: EAWL

School: Governesses, Limuru Girls' School, University of Rhodes, SA

General Information:

Father a settler in the Trans Nzoia, d. 1950. Mother d. 1929 buried in Eldoret. Stepmother d. 1970, buried in Nairobi. In childhood Mrs Harrap went to the Elgon Club, a tiny club at Kiminini, golf, tennis, bridge and various get togethers. Also belonged to Kitale Club where they lunched every Friday and went a bit wild every New Year and had a huge fete to support the vicar once a year.
Ancestry Passenger list 1955 London-Mombasa for dates 

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