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Name: MAGEE, Arthur Fitzherbert King (Capt.)
Birth Date: 1879 Dublin
Death Date: 25.8.1963 Limuru
First Date: 1904 June
Profession: Farmer. Cuckoo - mentions him as timber fuel contractor to the Railway
Area: Nairobi, Limuru
Married: 1909 Gertrude Emily McDonell b. 1875 Forest Gate, Essex, d.14.11.1941 Limuru, younger sister of Arnold Butler McDonell
Children: Diana Grace (Hallowes) (21 Apr 1912 Nairobi-1 Feb 1954 Elmenteita)
Book Reference: Drumkey, SKP, Barnes, LGS, Leader 14, Red Book 1912, Wolseley-Lewis, North, Gillett, Cuckoo, Red 25, Hut, Pioneers, Advertiser, Gazette,
General Information:
LGS - at Limuru Girls' School 1924-26 - In 1924 at ten years old I was sent off to boarding school, but it was a boarding school with a difference. The school itself consisted of one fairly large room built by A.B. McDonell who had embellished it with a splendid wood carving of St. George and the dragon over the fireplace. We were a total of 12 pupils, aged about 10 to 12, which included the daughters of the McDonells who had founded the school. Some of us boarded with that family while the rest lived with another family called Magee a little further up the road.
Wolseley-Lewis - 1930s - There were few unattached girls, so we had a gang who went up to Limuru to the McDonells, where there were four daughters, Evelyn, Mary and Edith, the twins, and Violet (Judy) and another girl next door, Diana Magee who was Brab's (Hallowes) girlfriend.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters Roll
Both buried in All Saints, Limuru cem