Leigh Stainsby Genealogy - Person Sheet
Leigh Stainsby Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameHenry LEIGH
Birth5 Nov 1842, A tent in Bourke St, Batman's Hill, Melb.4,1
Death1 Apr 1897, "Prospect", Ceres6
BurialBarrabool Hills Cemetery, Highton
Birth5 Nov 1842, Batman's Hill, Melbourne
Death29 Mar 1897, "Prospect", Ceres
OccupationFarmer
EducationGeelong Grammar School 1858 & 1859
ReligionC of E till marriage; then Wesleyan
EducationGeelong Grammar 1858-1859
ReligionC Of E
FatherJohn LEIGH of Prospect (1815-1886)
MotherEliza TREBLE (1822-1894)
Misc. Notes
Lived in Ceres village when first married, then moved to Fairley. After father John Leigh d in 1886, Henry's family moved to Prospect in Feb 1887 and his brother William took over Fairley in May 1887, moving back from Diggora with his family. Both Henry & William had taken up land at Diggora in the 1870s, but Henry's children would all have been born at Fairley except the youngest, Horace, and probably Julia, the eldest.
Geelong Advertiser 24 Dec 1888 reported Henry Leigh Ceres had 3 fingers amputated from his left hand [farm machinery?]
Died of dysentry6
Spouses
Birth26 Dec 1841, Bradworthy, Devon1
Death18 Aug 1930, "Prospect", Ceres1,7
BurialBarrabool Hills Cemetery, Highton
Birth26 Dec 1841, Blatchborough, Bradworthy, Devon
Death16 Aug 1930, "Prospect", Ceres
ReligionWesleyan Methodist
FatherJohn WALTER (1799-1862)
MotherElizabeth (Betsy) WICKETT (1801-1874)
Marriage13 Aug 1865, Holy Trinity, Barrabool1,2
ChildrenJulia Mary (1866-1941)
 John Walter (1867-1937)
 William Henry (1868-1931)
 Edward (1870-1887)
 Albert Ernest (1871-1937)
 Lewis Herbert (1872-1950)
 Edith Elizabeth (1874-1943)
 Charles (1876-1932)
 Rowland James (1878-1955)
 Ambrose Edwin (1879-1907)
 Frederick Victor (1881-1961)
 Stanley Francis (1883-1952)
 Horace Edgar (1887-1950)
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