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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

LEANE,  Thomas John

Date of Birth

1842

Place of Birth

Sheviock, Cornwall UK

Date of Death

29 July 1900

Place of Death

Hospital in Adelaide

Place of Burial

Walkerville Wesleyan Cemetery (record calls him Thomas Joseph)

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Migrated from Cornwall in 1857

Lived in Prospect (dates)

Most of his life

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

2 Rose Street, Prospect

Wife Alice continued to live in Rose Street during her life.

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

 

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Thomas LEANE and Jane

Spouse(s)

Alice Ann SHORT

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

12 June 1865

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Wesleyan Chapel Pirie Street, Adelaide

Children

Rosa Alice LEANE  1866 – 1867  (11 months)

Edwin Thomas LEANE  1867 - 1928

Ernest Albert LEANE  b1869

Allan William LEANE  1872 – 1917

Ethel Alice LEANE  b1874

Sydney Rowland LEANE  1877 – 1877  (7 months)

Raymond Lionel LEANE  12 July 1878 - 1962

Hilda Violet LEANE  b1881

Norman Short LEANE  b1884

Nellie LEANE  1888 -1888  (20 days)

Benjamin Bennett LEANE  1889 - 1917

 

 

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Shoemaker (as was his father)

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

Wesleyan lay preacher, temperance adherent

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Parents of the famous “Fighting Leanes of Prospect”

5 of their sons served in WW1

(Allan William, Benjamin Bennett, Edwin Thomas, Ernest Albert & Raymond Lionel)

 

Son Norman Short LEANE didn’t serve in WW1 but did serve in WW2

9 grandsons also served in WW1 &/or WW2

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

Aust Dictionary of Biography, SA BDMs, 1851 Census

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema

 

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