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Name: BERESFORD-PEIRSE, Joyce Franklin 'Joy'

Nee: Percival, dau. of Philip Hope Percival

Birth Date: 22 June 1915 'Potha', Machakos

Death Date: 1 Mar 1997 Woolmer, Northumberland

Profession: Lived south of Nairobi near Machakos

Area: Machakos

Married: 10 June 1944 Michael Wandesforde de la Poer Beresford-Peirse (1917-2003)

Children: Judith Anne Vivien (1948); Susan Alice Prior (1950)

Book Reference: Frampton

General Information:

Joy's parents were amongst the early pioneers - they hung a red blanket out of the window at Joy's birth - red for a girl, blue for a boy

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