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LEA Fay Mast-Ingle

Lea Fay (Mast-Ingle) FAY2 MAST-INGLE (HAROLD ROYDON1) was born 20th July 1944 in Johannesburg. She married (1) MURDO JOHN MACRAE. He was born 12th April 1937. She married (2) BRIAN ROBERT LEA born 23rd Feb 1933 son of KEITH HERBERT LEA and DOROTHY BLANCHE ROBERTS. Fay is the daughter of PHYLLIS ELAINE FLEMMER7 FLEMMER (ARTHUR CLAUDE6, CHRISTIAN LUDVIG5) born 22nd November 1911 and died 25th May 1998. She married HAROLD ROYDON MAST-INGLE 4 September 1937 in St Peter's Church Cradock South Africa. He was born 12th May 1912, and died 8th August 1994. son of FREDERICK CHARLES WILLIAM INGLE born 11th Nov 1883 in Phillipolis and CATHERINE BEATRICE ADELINE MAST born 31st July 1891.

The Personal History of Fay Mast-Ingle Lea. Born 20th July 1944 in Johannesburg. Daughter of Harold Roydon Mast-Ingle and Phyllis Elaine Flemmer Flemmer Mast-Ingle.

The date is January 2003, I am living in a retirement village at Noordhoek with my husband Brian. We married in 1980 and have had an amazing and eventful twenty three years together. We met in 1976, when Gordon my son was fourteen and Debbie-Jean my daughter was ten. Sadly I had divorced Murdo John MacRae, the children's father and had been a single parent for nine years.

Brian had two sons who were eighteen and twenty years old. After a year of marriage, Debbie asked Brian to adopt her. This he bravely and willingly did, and the two have forged a close relationship over the years, she and her husband Ridge have produced two additional grandchildren for him.

I have five grandchildren of my own and six step grandchildren, each one holds a special place in my heart.

In 1992 with a career which spanned thirty years, having worked my way up in various companies to the position of National Credit Manager, I retired when I finally received a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis after struggling for several years with mysterious bouts of illhealth. This came as a great shock and changed my life dramatically.

I have learnt to compromise with the situation and in so doing, I lead a full and interesting life pursuing my hobbies and interests and at the same time allowing my body the necessary rest and consideration it requires to keep the disease under control.

My interest in the family history was sparked while suffering a particularly bad spell in 1992, when I received a copy of 'The Little Dane' from my Aunt Dené Flemmer de Lancey, my Mom's sister, which I had never seen. I began the long and time consuming road to tracing the family roots. I was able to combine my enjoyment of computers, and the fulfilment of gathering of facts which enabled me to correspond with so many members of the family around the world.

I was born in Johannesburg and attended Roosevelt High School. After 30 years I moved to Cape Town and in spite of living here for nearly 30 years, I still support the Transvaal rugby teams.

In 1981 Brian and I travelled 4000 kms around South Africa on a Yamaha 1100 motorcycle visiting all the provinces over a four week period. We now enjoy a slightly more sedate form of transport but travel a great deal.

 

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