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Name: MacNAGHTEN, Leslie Hay
Birth Date: 12.9.1875 Murree, India
Death Date: 11.8.1950 Falmouth
First Date: 1904
Profession: Asst. Engineer PWD, 1919/33 Dir. of Public Works B. Somaliland. 1912 Asst. Engineer, PWD, Nyeri.
Area: Nairobi, Kisumu, Fort Hall, Nyeri, Mombasa. Travelled round Mt Kenya in buckboard
Married: In Mombasa 27 Mar 1906 Hilda Mary Ethelina Barnes b. 27 Feb 1884 North Huish, Devon, d. 1973 Truro
Children: Phyllis Eileen and Millicent, twins (5.1.1907 lived only a few hours, buried in Nairobi South cem.); Cyril Jocelyn Gilchrist 'Ian' (Fort Hall 31.10.1907-1973); Geoffrey Leslie (Kisumu 22.6.1909-1999); Douglas Melville (14 Mar 1911 Falmouth-2007)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, Hobley, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Gazette, Nicholls, North, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Colonial, Red Book 1912, Red 19
School: Wellington College and Truro Survey and Mining College
General Information:
SE - L.H. MacNaghton - Dec 1907
East Africa & Rhodesia - 16/11/50 - Mr L.H. MacNaghten, who has died in this country, entered the Public Works Department in Kenya in 1905. He became Director of Public Works in the Somaliland Protectorate in 1919.
Drumkey 1909 - Public Works Dept. - Assistant Engineer
EAHB 1906 - L.H. Macnaghten - Nairobi
Gazette - 15/4/14 - appt. Executive Engineer, PWD
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nyeri
Nicholls - The wedding of Hilda and Leslie Macnaghten, of the Public Works Dept., was typical. In 1906 the bride arrived in Mombasa by ship in the morning, and was taken to a bungalow by 2 ladies she did not know. She was helped to dress in a wedding gown and veil she had brought with her, and was given a bunch of oleander picked from the garden as a bouquet. From the bungalow she went straight to the cathedral in a trolley pushed by 2 Africans and decorated with white flowers - oleander, jasmine and frangipani. William McGregor Ross, of the PWD, whom she had never met, gave her away before a small congregation lacking any of her relatives. On the same day she and her husband embarked on the overnight train to Nakuru. On arrival there she was seated on a white Muscat donkey and rode 80 miles to Turkana country, to find her new home was a banda with no doors or windows. She played the gramophone in the evenings for a touch of home, but found herself surrounded by Suk and Turkana tribespeople mystified by Harry Lauder's laughing song. Just over 9 months later she lost her new-born twins in Nairobi. Such was pioneering life.
North - Arr. Mombasa from Johannesburg 12/4/1904; Land Grant application Nairobi Hill 27/6/1904; Working as Asst. Surveyor for Messrs Gailey & Roberts 12/8/1904; appt. Asst. Engineer, Public Works Dept. EAP 15/5/1905
Leader14 - L.J. MacNaughten - Kisumu ?
Colonial 1912 - Public Works Dept. - Assistant Engineer
Red Book 1912 - L.H. Macnaughten [sic] - Kisumu
Red Book 1912 - Public Works Dept. - Assistant Engineer - L.H. Macnaughten [sic]
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Leslie Hay Macnaghten - Executive Engineer PWD - Ngong Road and Mrs Hilda Macnaghten - Ngong Road
Red Book 1919 - Public Works Department - Executive Engineer - L.H. MacNaghten
Hut has L.H. McNaughton.
Hut has L.H. McNaughten 1912 Forest Dept. Rongai
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