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Name: HOSKING, John Nankervis
Birth Date: 1870 St Just, Cornwall
Death Date: 6 Aug 1933 Que Que, S. Rhodesia
First Date: 1904
Profession: Land Grant 1905? - J.N. Hosking - Agricultural, 1,000 acres, Mkuyu, Mar 5, Freehold
Married: 1. 1895 Sarah Jane Bell b. 1875 Hendingham, Cumberland, d. 9 Apr 1912 Fylde, Lancs.; 2. In Bispham, Lancs. 22 May 1913 Ethel Mary Cross b. 1874, d. 20 Nov 1937 Salisbury, S. Rhodesia
Children: John Redvers Buller (18 June 1900 Cape Town-1959); Mildred May (4 Mar 1910 Johannesburg-1985); David Baker (6 Oct 1911 Bispham, Lancs.)
Book Reference: Land, North
War Service: RE
General Information:
North - Land Grant application, Kikuyu 5-3-1904; One of 86 signatures on a petition to the FO objecting to a proposed Zionist settlement in EA Feb-April 1905
Ancestry Passenger list 1914 Southampton- Beira, J.N. Hosking, miner, aged 42
Went to S. Rhodesia
Nat Probate Calendar