Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List with Daisy Margaret Georgina

Mary Hoey says - He married Margaret Camp who had come out to Kenya as governess to C.H. Adams' children. Jean was his eldest daughter and she and her father were very close. Jean married Robin Vetch who had a coffee farm at Nyeri. They had two sons Stewart and Neville who was drowned in a swimming pool at the age of two. Robin died of tick fever after only a few years married to Jean. Jean left Nyeri and moved to Juoni a farm near Molo. She was a keen polo player, and Molo was a polo playing place.

After Donald's death Margaret went up to live with Jean part time and with Diana part time as far as I remember. Some years later Jean married Michael Skinner who had been married twice (or was it 3 times before)? They lived at Molo and Baringo Safari Club on the shores of Lake Baringo from where they took out safaris bird and game watching. Jean's son Stewart joined the Blues and Royals but fairly recently gave that up and came back to Kenya and into the safari business where he is now. Jean also has a stepson who married a girl in New Zealand and has 2 children. He has now divorced and has returned to Kenya where he does charter flights. Diana was her mother's girl and very like her mother just as Jean was her father's girl and very like him. Both girls went to Turi school. Diana married David Sheldrick the now famous husband of Daphne also famous for her for her work for Tsavo. Diana and David had 2 children Kenneth and Valerie. They divorced after some years. David married Daphne and Diana married Denis Cadot who lived in Nairobi. They had a son Peter who now does catering for big safaris, big conferences etc. Diana lives in a flat in Nairobi with a woman friend. She has recently lost her daughter Valerie who had been ill for years with thrombosis and Diana herself is in poor health.

Sheardown - Sirrima had originally been settled by a chap named Donald Sharpe, one of the soldier settlers who had been allocated land at the end of the 1914-18 War. He had served in the East African campaign against …. Von Lettow Vorbeck and had, whilst at Sir Northrup Macmillan's house 'Chiromo', during its use as a mmilitary hospital in 1917, married Miss Violet Donkin. They had taken Sirrima two years later and Mrs Sharpe had eventually died there and is buried at the top of a steep escarpment on the ranch which affords a spectacular view of Mount Kenya, 25 miles away. There was no tombstone to mark her last resting place but instead a cairn of stones was thrown up over the grave and I, as probably did others, added a stone on each occasion that I went past it. The Sharpes had not done much to the place, apart from building a long, low stone-walled house on a magnificent site on a hillside. To the front the ground fell steeply away to the Ngobit River, 150 feet below.

Barnes - St. Peter's Nyeri Cemetery - my beloved husband and father of Jean and Diana, Donald Sharp who fell asleep on 21 February 1949 in his 65th year.

Gazette - 23/1/1923 - Probate and Administration - Frances Violet Sharp, late of Sirrima (Laikipia) who died at Sirrima on 31 May 1922. Applied for by Donald Sharp of Sirrima (Laikipia)

Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Donald Sharp, Farmer Sirrima PO Suguroi and Francis Violet Sharp, Married woman PO Suguroi

Old Africa - 19-5-16 - Christine Nicholls - Violet Donkin returned to the Scott Sanatorium and resumed nursing. On the outbreak of the First World War the sanatorium was taken over by the government to treat military personnel, specifically with dysentery. Violet met the farmer Donald Sharp, of Sirimma, Suguroi, Laikipia, while she was nursing him back to health at the Sanatorium after he was wounded in the war. She married him in 1917. The lavish wedding party was held at Chiromo, Northrup McMillan’s house. The pair did not have any children and Violet died of cardiac failure at the farm on 31 May 1922. She was only 47. In her will she left £121.16.8d. Donald married again and died on 21 February 1949. He is buried in Nyeri cemetery.

Red 25 - Honorary Permit Issuer

Gazette - 27/2/1924 - Electoral Register - Sharp, Francis Violet, Married woman, Suguroi

Gazette 2 Aug 1949 probate, applied for by Daisy Georgina Sharp, widow [CN-who is this?] and Jean Margaret Helen Sharp, spinster [CN- isn't she his wife?]

In the voters list for 1934 Donald and Daisy Georgina Sharp are together at Ngobit Gazette 29 Dec 1934

A Scot and a lovely man.