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Name: MEGSON, Douglas Manfred

Nee: son of Edmund Victor Megson

Birth Date: 4.11.1895 Hale, Cheshire

Death Date: 18.3.1938 Kenya

First Date: 1925

Profession: Farmer

Area: 'Scapa Farm', Kitale, 1930 Endebess

Married: In Kiminini 15.9.1925 Florence Margaret 'Madge' Alice Hill Burnell b. 26.10.1898, d. 14.10.1986 Chichester

Children: See below

Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut

War Service: King's (Liverpool) Regt.

General Information:

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List expunged
Penelope Deubel:  DOUGLAS MANFRED MEGSON (b. 04.11.1895 - d. 18.03.1938) is thought to have bought a farm in the TZ  Elgon area in 1920 but returned to England before coming back later in 1925.  On the ship he met a young lady called Florence Margaret (Madge) Alice Hill Burnell.   They were married  on 15.09.1925 in the Elgon (now Kiminini ) St. John’s Church. They bought and lived on one of the family farms - “Elgon Dacre”, “Scapa” or “Katalina" quite which is not clear, but when Douglas died his probate gives him as owner of Elgon Dacre.
They had six children :
- PETER Douglas Hill (b. 05.08.1926 : d. 14.09.1994) 
- PHILIP,  died at birth (burried in Kitale, same cemetery as Jeremy where also Madge and Crickey’s ashes are scattered, under a big tree) 
- JEREMY (Jerry) Forrest Hill, (b. 05..02.1931 : d. 13.05.1975) attended Kitale Primary School until moving to Nairobi in 1944 and going to secondary school at the « Prince of Wales » Eventually farmed in the Cherenganis. Died in Kenya
- CHRISTOPHER (Cricky) Roland Hill, (b. 10.08.1933 : d. 14.11. 1994) …same cursus as his brother (see above) but sold the farm and went to the USA.  Died in England
- BARRY Manfred Hill  (b. 10.05. 1935) …same cursus as his brothers but did not farm.  Joined EA Airways then went to England, still alive (2020), living on Lewis Island, Scotland
- LYNETTE Margaret Hill (b. 31.01.1938) attended Kitale Primary School, Kenya High School and the Royal Ballet School in England.  Still alive (2020) and living in France

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