Thomas Askew Leach

Glenpatrick Gold Diggings - Site of the Leach Family Store.. Glenpatrick Diggings 2005 - Miner's Cottage..

Thomas was born in 1825 in London  (Well Street, Hackney, Middlesex, England).  Thomas' father was Samuel Forest Leach and his mother was Annie   Wrightson Price.  His paternal grandparents were Thomas Askew Leach and Hannah Burling.  He was an only child.  He died at the age of 36 on August 27th, 1861 in Glenpatrick, Avocashire, Victoria.  He was buried in Glenpatrick, Avocashire, Victoria.

• General Notes

  Medical student in England.
  Left his studies to try his luck in the goldrush in Victoria, Australia.
  On board ship he met Miss Emma Joynes, aged 19.  They fell in love and married.
  When the ship docked in Melbourne in 1854 they immediately set off for the goldfields.  They did not have much luck finding gold, and so they set up a general store on the Glenpatrick Diggings where they did a thriving business.
  Unfortunately Mr. Leach suddenly fell sick and died, keaving his widow and 3 children.
  
  ### From the Listing at the Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriage Register at   https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=getHistIdxSearchCriteria:
  The Record of Deaths in Avoca says:
  Thomas Askew Leach
  Profession - storekeeper
  Died - 27 August 1861 at Glenpatrick, Avocashire, Victoria
  13 years in Victoria at time of death
  Death - supposed instantaneous death from apoplexy due to excessive and continued drinking of spiritous liquors
  Age - 36
  Wife - Emma Joynes - married in Melbourne 1849
  Birth Place - London  (Well Street, Hackney, Middlesex, England)
  Father - Samuel Forest Leach - surgeon
  Mother - Annie Wrightson Price
  Children :
  - Edwin Charles (born 1854)
  - Anne Wrightson (born 1856)
  - Alice (born 1859)
  Buried at Glenpatrick - undertaker Thomas Webber Moore (father-in-law of his daughter Anne)
  
  

Details of Thomas' family with Emma Joynes