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Name: BULLOCK, Muriel Francis 'Mew' 'Mu', Mrs

Nee: Sullivan

Birth Date: 1878 Cliftonville, Kent

Death Date: 14 Oct 1961 Nanyuki

First Date: 1930

Profession: Farmer. Seems to have a hand in running Timau Store and Post Office in the 1930s

Area: Timau, 1930 Mrs M.F. Bullock, Mutubiri

Married: 1. Herbert Whitfield (1858-1909); 2. Guy Livingstone Farnell Bullock (1874-1925)

Children: 1. Timothy (2 Feb 1902 Lewes-19 May 1974 Pietermaritzburg); John Francis (1 June 1903 Lewes-1959)

Book Reference: EAWL, Foster, Red 31, Hut, Garden, Barnes

General Information:

'A character once met would never be forgotten. She did sterling work for the troops in Kenya during the war and earned an OBE. A leopard killed one of her peacocks so she shot it and brought it back to the house in the farm truck. This was during the Emergency. As she returned with the dead leopard it so happened that a party of British soldiers arrived asking for directions to another farm. The Lieut. i/c noticed the gun in her hand and asked if she was in trouble could he be of help. "Oh, no" she said "I just had to shoot a leopard that was making a nuisance of itself". She was over 70 at the time. The soldiers' faces were worth sketching when they heard this and they wondered more than a little at this episode. The Nanyuki Club was a place well used by us farmers and you could always meet up with someone you knew when you called in. When I had only been married a short while and didn't know my mother-in-law all that well I went to the club for a drink and to see who was around. When I opened the door of the main club room imagine my surprise when I saw all the furniture pushed to one end and a number of people playing leap frog over each others backs and led by my mother-in-law who was well into her 60's.' Source:- Mrs Connie Whitfield   
Foster - Mrs Guy Bullock (1878-1961) is buried at Nanyuki Cemetery. She had bought Major and Mrs M. Davies Evans' original soldier settler farm (No. 883) in 1933. Marion Cran in "The Garden Beyond" page 183, describes Muriel Bullock's beautiful garden. "The house was covered with scarlet passion-flowers, looking at a distance like a terrific flowering of Tropaolum speciosm" Marion Cran found Muriel a witty and outspoken woman who she liked very much, not least for her outgoing sympathy to others.
Barnes - Nanyuki Cemetery - Mew Bullock - 1878-1961 Nanyuki Cemetery - Plot M14 - Mrs Muriel Francis Bullock
Gazette 11 Nov 1947 probate for Muriel Hazel Bullock who d Nairobi 18 Oct 1947

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