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Name: RYAN, George Ronald 'Daddy'

Birth Date: 11 Feb 1882 King William's Town, S. Africa

Death Date: 15 May 1937 Kidd's Beach, East London, S. Africa

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1937

Profession: Possibly a soldier settler, widower with 2 children. Lived as a farmer on the Laikipia plains in a collection of mud huts

Area: Maroola Valley, Rumuruti

Married: 1.In Aliwal North, S. Africa 26 Sep 1907 Olive May Dugmore b. 1884, d. 31 July 1917 Queenstown, S. Africa, teacher (dau. of Alfred Dugmore and sister of Henry Hare Dugmore); 2. Dorothy Durrance

Children: 1. Ronald William 'Bill' (13 July 1908 Cradock, S. Africa-18 Oct 1985 Malindi, Kenya); Cynthia (Allen, later Kofsky) (30 Nov 1910) 2. Audrey Dorothea (18 Apr 1927); Margaret Jane (16 Dec 1929); Elizabeth Patricia (16 Mar 1932)

Book Reference: Mrs Mary Hoey, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Robin Ryan, Leader14, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut

School: MA (Oxon.)

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 15/12/55 - Mrs Nat Kofsky, wife of the director of the East Africa Conservatoire of Music, and daughter of the late G.R. Ryan (who settled in the Laikipia district in 1919), has won the competition for a marching song for the Kenya Olympics team.
Red 22 - Maroola Valley, Rumuruti
Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - George Ronald Ryan (MA Oxon), Farmer PO Rumuruti
Gazette 1 Feb 1938 probate
S. African death notice - he was a schoolmaster

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