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Name: GOOD, Hester Maida Millicent
Nee: dau of John Henry Good
Birth Date: 1918 Bandon, Ireland
Death Date: South Africa
First Date: 1922
Area: Chania Bridge
Married: Harry Wilfred Tunmer (1912-1975)
Children: 2 sons; Gale
Book Reference: KAD, Hut, Campling
General Information:
Campling - Kakamega 1930s - Milly Good, daughter of Mr & Mrs Good. Mrs Good was an enthusiastic amateur geologist and very keen on studying rock formation; she walked the hills and valleys all day long, convinced that one day she would make the big strike. Her husband was a quiet man, not particularly interested in prospecting. Their daughter Milly and sons Stowell, Jack and Ian were away at school in Eldoret but joined them in the school holidays. Milly was a very pretty girl, uninterested in mining and very bored with Kakamega and was always glad of visits from Keith [Campling] and Harry [Tunmer] Milly ran off with Harry Tunmer and married him. Her mother was very upset as she did not consider 'wild' Harry a suitable husband for her daughter. …… the marriage lasted many years and produced 2 sons and a daughter and it was only when the daughter Gale grew up that Milly decided to leave Kenya, no doubt remembering from her own girlhood that the Kenyan bush was no place in which to bring up a young girl. She took her daughter to school in Natal where her own mother, by then widowed, was already living.