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Name: HARDIE, Margaret Lister
Birth Date: 1911 ?West Ham, Essex
First Date: 1927
Profession: Ndimu. Limuru
Area: Limuru
Married: In Nyeri 17 Sep 1934 Samuel Norman Turner (1903-1957)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters Roll, with Thomas Stanley Hardie. She travels with him in Ancestry Passenger list 1927 S. Africa to London - he is farmer aged 18 and she is 'nil' (so not wife) aged 16
Fleming - An opposition company [to Wilson Airways] had just started up called East African Airways, in which Lord John Carberry and Norman Turner were part of the financial backing. ….
Fleming - At Nyeri we went and stayed with Margot Turner, the wife of Norman Turner who had been one of the East African Airways financiers and directors. Norman was a Squadron-Leader in the RAF by this time, and Margot was running his farm and had made a great success of it. She was a sweet girl, young, tall, very attractive, with a mop of hair, green eyes, and full of life and fun. She was a Kenya-born girl and knew a lot about farming. They had a very attractive bungalow, deep in the virgin forest, built of cedar logs, with cedar-shingled roof. It had a very pretty garden, and a lovely view of Mount Kenya.
Campling - "It was about this time that they heard the news of the death of "Corkscrew" Edwards. He was flying a Gypsy Moth when he buzzed low over a mine to greet some friends and hit the gantry, and that was the end of him. Edwards had joined in a consortium that formed a company known as East African Airways Ltd., and others involved included John Carberry, Dot Lyons and Norman Turner, who was a director.
Fleming - An opposition company [to Wilson Airways] had just started up called East African Airways, in which Lord John Carberry and Norman Turner were part of the financial backing. ….
Fleming - At Nyeri we went and stayed with Margot Turner, the wife of Norman Turner who had been one of the East African Airways financiers and directors. Norman was a Squadron-Leader in the RAF by this time, and Margot was running his farm and had made a great success of it. She was a sweet girl, young, tall, very attractive, with a mop of hair, green eyes, and full of life and fun. She was a Kenya-born girl and knew a lot about farming. They had a very attractive bungalow, deep in the virgin forest, built of cedar logs, with cedar-shingled roof. It had a very pretty garden, and a lovely view of Mount Kenya.
Campling - "It was about this time that they heard the news of the death of "Corkscrew" Edwards. He was flying a Gypsy Moth when he buzzed low over a mine to greet some friends and hit the gantry, and that was the end of him. Edwards had joined in a consortium that formed a company known as East African Airways Ltd., and others involved included John Carberry, Dot Lyons and Norman Turner, who was a director.