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Name: WEBB, George Dewar

Nee: bro of Norman Evans and John Fuller Webb

Birth Date: 27 Feb 1879 Toise River, Eastern Cape, SA

Death Date: 7 Feb 1949 East London

Nationality: British

First Date: 1900 - after serving in S. Africa

Profession: Pioneer farmer in the Nanyuki District pre WW1. His family left the area in the 1980's

Area: Nanyuki, 1925 'Cedar Vale', Nanyuki, 1908 Uaso Nyiro South, 1914 Sotik

Married: In Cape Province 1 Aug 1919 Mary Ann Rebecca Simpson b. 25 July 1890 King William's Town, S. Africa, d. 12 June 1941 East London

Children: George Alexander (18 Jan 1921 Nairobi-11 Feb 1998 Mombasa); Phyllis Evans (Bruton) (12 Apr 1923 King William's Town-Feb 1969 East London); Ronald Albert (12 June 1925); Sheila Dorothy (1927); Noel Brian (26 Dec 1932-10 Dec 2015 Surrey)

Book Reference: Gillett, Seventy, Joelson, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, North, Land, Red 22, Advertiser, Medals, Leader14, Red Book 1912

War Service: In WW1 was awarded the DCM, E. Af. Pioneer Co.

General Information:

Land - G.D. Webb leased 7500 acres at Kenia

Advertiser - 5/11/1909 - No Shooting on farms in Southern Guaso Nyiro - W. Rooken-Smith, Will Peeblet, Capt. Tom Aggett, W.B. Aggett, F. Smith, J.S. Smith, T.E. Aggett, C. Pritzkow, W.A. Smith, G. Bennett, E.H. Currie, Jack Webb, G.D. Webb, N.E. Webb

Medals - East Africa Road Corps - George Webb, No. 84, Private

Red Book 1912 - G. Webb - Naivasha

Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - George Duver [sic] Webb, Farmer PO Nanyuki and Mary Ann Rebecca Webb, Married woman, PO Nanyuki

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List

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