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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

LEANE,  Ernest Albert

Date of Birth

1 October 1869

Place of Birth

Nailsworth, SA

Date of Death

15 Oct 1936

Place of Death

Parkside (Hospital)

Place of Burial

Walkerville Wesleyan Cemetery

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

 

Lived in Prospect (dates)

Birth until first marriage, then from approx 1905 until WW1 enlistment

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

Parents home 2 Rose Street Prospect

 

Returned to live in Rose Street (Prospect opposite side and west of parents home) by 1905.

Olive Street, Prospect in 1913

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Children born at North Shields & Pt Lincoln in Flinders District 1894 -1904

158 O’Connell St. North Adelaide (wife’s address at enlistment)

Living Kensington North at time of death

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Thomas John LEANE and Alice Ann SHORT

Spouse(s)

1.     Martha May BOSWELL

 

2.     Alice JONES (nee GARRETT)

 

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

1.     22 June 1894   (Divorced 1933)

 

2.     6 September 1934

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

1.     Residence of Rev JG Wright, Kent Town SA

 

2.     Registry Office, Adelaide

Children

11 Children with Alice Short

Sons Arnold Harry Leane and William Ernest Raymond Leane fought in  WW1

1 son with Alice Jones

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Clerk

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

Church of England

Notes (points of interest etc.)

One of the famous “Fighting Leanes of Prospect” who served in WW1

Sources of information

SA BDMs, S&M, Trove newspapers, AIF Project

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema

Photo source

Australian War Memorial P02136.001.

 

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