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Name: VAN PRAAGH, Maurice
Birth Date: 1862 Whitechapel, London
Death Date: 6.1.1926 Sandgate, Kent
First Date: 1904
Profession: Norfolk Stores
Area: Govt. Rd. Nairobi
Married: In Kensington, London 26.2.1910 Hilda Muriel Swinden b. 1879 Aston, Birmingham, d. 2 May 1959 Folkestone
Book Reference: SE, Advertiser, Mills Norfolk, SE, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907
General Information:
Advertiser - 21/8/1908 - The Travellers' Club Ltd. (in liquidation) - Messrs Todd & Van Praagh - claims to T.A. Wood
Advertiser - 21/8/1908 - Notice - Robert Wylie Todd and Maurice Van Praagh - partnership dissolved
Mills Norfolk - Another 'Globe Trotter' announcement was that: "There are rumours that the Norfolk Stores (Mr Maurice von Praagh [sic]) and the Norfolk Hotel is to be worked in conjunction as a limited company." The Norfolk Stores stocked agricultural machinery, transport wagons, spiders, light vehicles and it was a gentleman's outfitters and contained a ladies' drapery. Everything the town wanted by 1906 could be found at the Norfolk Stores. The rumours though never became a fact. Perhaps Ringer was always casting around for additional financial support and when von Praagh opted out, as he soon did, the Stores were taken over by John Boyes.
SE - M. Van Praagh - Aug 1909
Drumkey 1909 - Directory of Residents - M. Van Praagh, Nairobi
North - Settler's Game Licence 24/6/1904; Sportsman's game Licence Naivasha 30/7/1904; Firearm registered at Mombasa on way to Nairobi 7/2/1905; Issued with Liquor Licence, Nairobi Jan-March 1905; Firearm registered at Nairobi April-June 1905; Landholder's Game Licence, Ukamba Dist. July-Sept. 1905