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Name: MAUCHAUFFEE, Roger Maurice Georges Robert Lucien
Nee: son of Lucien Maurice Marie Mauchauffee and Lucie Jeanne Marie Kremer
Birth Date: 6 July 1903 Ile de France, Paris
Death Date: 21 Jan 1968 Nairobi
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer in Tanganyika, hotel proprietor at Tigoni
Married: 1. In Paris 20 Apr 1931 (div. 26 Feb 1934) Gladys Spooner b. 18 Dec 1909 Paris, d. 23 Dec 1993 Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France, nurse, croix de guerre; 2. In Paris 1948 Lucille Marcelle Alaniesse b. 27 Mar 1904, d. 26 Aug 1966 Nairobi
Children: Francoise E. (Holdsworth) (stepdau.) (1926 Paris-2000 Devon); Corinne Suzanne Lucy Fredegonde (Lefai) (2 Feb 1932 Boulogne-Billancourt, France-4 Nov 2008 Paris); Sylvia Elizabeth (Monckton; Nettlefold) (6.3.1938 Arusha-8.9.2000 Marondera, Zimbabwe)
Book Reference: David Read, Barefoot over the Serengeti, 1979, pp.110-112
War Service: KAR, RASC, RE
General Information:
Tania Burrows (granddaughter) French Nationals, they were naturalised British during WW2 when they joined the army in Kenya. Lucille in the FANYs and Roger in the KAR. They farmed in Tanganyika, hunted, took safaris, collected butterflies, socialised. Farming was wound up when war broke out. Initially they were fortunate to flourish without work. Roger was the son of Parisian textile industrialist Maurice Mauchauffee. Roger and Lucille arrived in East Africa in the 1930s on safari from Paris. Roger's mother Lucie joined them in Africa when she escaped Paris during the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, due to her Jewish heritage, and was given safe passage to Tanganyika. Lucie lived with her granddaughter Sylvia in a German fort ironically in Dar es Salaam which went on to become the Zanzibar High Commission. Sylvia went to Mbeya School as a child. After the war, fortunes diminishing, Roger and Lucille utilised their hosting and French cookery talents and ran the Farm Hotel, Tigoni. Guests included film stars such as Shirley MacLaine. It became Tigoni Academy for Girls and then Tigoni International School. Lucille also had a partnership in a millinery shop. They spent their sunset years between Tigoni and Likoni.
Barnes, Nairobi City Park cemetery: mother's burial - Last Name: MAUCHAUFEE (née Kremer) Given Name: Lucie Jeanne Marie Birth: Death: 13 Jan 1952 AGED: YR: 82 Nationality: French Date of Burial: 14 Jan 1952 Gender: F, Section: 9, Lot: 20 [she was born 8 Jan 1872 Ile de France].
United Nations Trusteeship Council T/PET.2/152, 8 Oct 1951 petition from Mauchauffee re being turned down for a sisal farm in Tanganyika confiscated from Germans in WW2.
Kenya Gazette 5 Sep 1950 Luce Mauchauffee was a partner in a hat shop in Nairobi, in voting list for Nairobi South with Roger Maurice, agent, Box 3525, Nairobi