Leadley, Frank Ernest (1876-1964)

Family

Frank was born in 1876 at Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire, to parents Francis Leadley, a PM minister, and Sophia Morris.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Frank.

1891 clerk in shipbroker’s office
1901 PM minister
1911 draper & clothier dealer

Frank emigrated to Australia in 1912 and moved on the New Zealand in 1920. An electoral rolls for 1914 and 1919 at Kyabram, Echuca, Victoria lists Frank as an orchardist. In New Zealand, Frank again took up the work of the ministry.

He married Clara Richards (1881-1967) in the summer of 1904 at Bootle, Lancashire. Records identify six children.

Ernest Clarence (b1905) – a Methodist minister in New Zealand
Beatrice (b1908) – married James Howard Long, a labourer (1948), in 1934
Marjorie (1911-2000) – married Edward Arthur Archer, an engineer (1938), in 1934
Arthur Richards (1915-1919)
Percy George (1918-2006) – a postal clerk (1972)
Frank Edwin (b abt1920) – a mechanic (1957)

Frank died on 1964 in Auckland, New Zealand.