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Name: LEAKEY, Mary, Mrs
Nee: Bazett, sister of Ellen, Louisa, Mabel & Sibella
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1866 Reading
Death Date: 11 Feb 1948 Limuru
Nationality: British
First Date: 1892 - with her sister Sibella who married Archdeacon Burns
Last Date: 1948
Profession: From Reading, Berks; Worked with husband in CMS.
Area: Mombasa for 1st 3 years then moved to Kabete on marriage
Married: In Reading 21 Aug 1899 Rev Harry Leakey (1868-1940)
Children: Julia Mary Bazett (Barham) (17 May 1900 New Cross, London-1985 Bromley); John George (1901 London-1901);Gladys Sybil Bazett (Beecher) (9 Aug 1901 Reading-10 Apr 1982 Nairobi); Louis Seymour Bazett (7 Aug 1903 Kabete-1 Oct 1972 Chelsea); Mary (1905 London-1905); Douglas Gray Bazett (10.10.1907 Kabete-17 Jan 1980 Bagtor, Devon)
Book Reference: Gillett, White African, North, Curtis, Pioneers, CMS, SKP, Barnes
General Information:
Pioneers has Mrs Harry Leakey, née Bazett, Nairobi, arrived December 1902
CMS 1892 - Age 25. b. at Reading. At The Willows. 1892, May 31, accepted as Hon. Missionary; Oct 24, to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Mombasa
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived 1892
All Saints Church, Limuru cemetery Mary Leakey, wife of Harry Leakey born 18 Nov 1866, Died 11 Feb 1948
North - The Willows Training House; dep. London for EA 24-10-1892; Mombasa Town Mission; sent home on sick leave June 1895; returned to EA after marriage and joined Leakey at Kikuyu about March 1902
Virginia Morrell, Ancestral Passions, 1995 She filled their home and the mission grounds with hymns and ballads, singing to the accompaniment of her harmonium. Her frailty often kept her inside, and in any case she had little interest in the natural world that grew so profusely outside their door. Although sickly, May was a motherly figure, who was always calling on Kikuyu women with kettles of hot soup and spoiling their children. She ran a daily dispensary, and started a girls' school on the verandah of their home.
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