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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

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