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Name: FEY, Leonard James 'Jim'
Nee: son of Ernest Fey
Birth Date: 1890 Ringwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death Date: 1928
First Date: 1906
Profession: Farmer
Area: Naivasha
Married: In Nairobi 1917 Marjorie Kathleen Venn b. 1894 Shaftesbury, d. 1919
Children: Georgina Mary (31 Mar 1918 Nairobi); Ernest Venn Wildweed (19 Oct 1919 Kinangop-30 Mar 1986 S. Africa)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 22, Red Book 1912, Gazette
General Information:
Red Book 1912 - L.J. Fey - Naivasha
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - L.J. Fey - Farmer - Naivasha and Mary Fey - Married - Naivasha
Chandler - Fey was a Kenya professional hunter who was definitely not a fellow to mess with, especially if you were a stock-raiding lion. Fey's parents (Ernest and Mary, both of whom died in 1936) built a farm on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in 1906. On this farm they produced cattle, sheep, horses, honey, and later, pyrethrum. Jim grew up roaming the woods with his relatives and Kikuyu friends and learned to hunt at an early age, protecting the farm's livestock from lion and other predators. The family lived there until the late 1950s, when a government scheme appropriated all the land in the district for distribution to African small-farmers. One night in 1922 lion killed 4 donkeys belonging to Fey. Setting up a bait the next evening, he killed 14 lion in less than 2 hours. Fey also took up professional hunting and guided the Maharaja of Datia on safari in 1921. With 2 other men shooting as well, the party accounted for 34 lion and 2 leopard in one night.
Gethin - Died shortly after WW1
Chandler - Fey was a Kenya professional hunter who was definitely not a fellow to mess with, especially if you were a stock-raiding lion. Fey's parents (Ernest and Mary, both of whom died in 1936) built a farm on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in 1906. On this farm they produced cattle, sheep, horses, honey, and later, pyrethrum. Jim grew up roaming the woods with his relatives and Kikuyu friends and learned to hunt at an early age, protecting the farm's livestock from lion and other predators. The family lived there until the late 1950s, when a government scheme appropriated all the land in the district for distribution to African small-farmers. One night in 1922 lion killed 4 donkeys belonging to Fey. Setting up a bait the next evening, he killed 14 lion in less than 2 hours. Fey also took up professional hunting and guided the Maharaja of Datia on safari in 1921. With 2 other men shooting as well, the party accounted for 34 lion and 2 leopard in one night.
Gethin - Died shortly after WW1