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