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Name: FRAMPTON, Christina Margaret 'Peggy'

Nee: Benn, dau of Edward Hugh and Jane Ethel Benn, sister of Jack Musson Benn and Kathleen Joan Benn

Birth Date: 21 July 1909 Bahia, Brazil

First Date: 1930 - to join her father and brother Jack

Last Date: 1961

Profession: Her father bought 2000 acres on the Kinangop and he and Jack developed it into a sheep and cattle farm in partnership with a well known settler, Mervyn Ray

Area: Kinangop, Naivasha

Married: 1. In Naivasha 16 June 1934 Thomas Moffat Banks (1883-1944) 2. 1950 William Bucknall d. 1976 3. 1984 Col. George Frampton

Children: Christine Rose (Oakshott) (1935-1985); Jennifer (Barnett) (1941)

Author: Seven Candles for my Life, 1994

Book Reference: Frampton, Hut

School: Francis Holland School, London and Royal Academy of Music

General Information:

Frampton - 1933 - Idina (Haldemann at that time) at 'Clouds' asked Peggy Frampton to be companion to her daughter Diana, aged 4, Joss Erroll's daughter. Her governess, Joan Trent had suddenly married Dan Long, the famous Boy Long's brother. ........... when she married Tom Banks they farmed in the Solai area ......... after he died she married William Bucknall in 1950 when he was aged 56, a retired Lt.Col. of the Black Watch. He had divorced his first wife and had 2 daughters - Cressida and Felicity. ........ They bought 25 acres from Gerry Alexander at Molo and left Kenya in 1961.

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