Birth: 30 May 1891 Bridge Street, Helmsley, North Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Joseph Frank 1857-1940
Mother: Annie Brown Leslie 1865-1928
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1922 Middlesborough, North Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Clare Adelaide Barritt (Barrett, Barrit) 1896-1977
Death: 21 May 1955 Stainfield, Sowerby, North Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Gordon Barritt Frank 1923-1987
Joseph Howard Frank 1926-1954
Barbara A Frank [Elliot] 1929-1957
Carol Leslie Frank 1941
Birth of Leslie Frank in FreeBMD in April-June 1891 in Helmsley (9D 442).
His brother and sister were born in Helmsley on 1 December 1892 and 3 July 1894.
In the 1901 census as Leslie Frank aged 9, born in Helmsley, Yorkshire and boarding at New College, Pannal, Yorkshire.
His brother was born in Helmsley on 21 September 1903.
In the 1911 census as Leslie Frank aged 19, born in Helmsley, Yorkshire, single, a business assitant (sic), and living with his parents (Joseph and Annie), two brothers (Danald and Ronald), sister (Mildred M), (step)grandfather (George Wilson), grandmother (Ann Wilson), and a servant (Amy Atkinson aged 21, single and born in Pockley) in seven rooms Bridge Street, Helmsley, York.
I cannot locate him im the 1921 census, but he was not living with his parents.
Marriage of Leslie Frank and Clare A Barrett (sic - on the typed original, although listed as Barrit in her entry and Barritt on her typed orginal) in FreeBMD in July-September 1922 in Middlesbro (9D 1124).
His two sons and daughter were registered in Thirsk from 1923 to 1929.
There are over ten entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Leslie Frank, Stainfield, Thirsk 101 changing to 2101 in 1939 from 1927 to 1939
His brother-in-law James Simpson Denby died on 21 March 1931 at 77 Clarendon Road, Leeds and left effects of £41747 16s. 6d. to Charles Percival Denby and Leslie Frank timber merchant.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Leslie Frank born 30 May 1891, married, a timber merchant (home grown) and ARP Joint controller at Thirsk Report Centre, and living with Clare A Frank (wife?), Gordon B Frank (son?), Barbara A Frank (daughter?), Alice Nai?? (Ellis - servant) and one other (son?) at 71 Front Street, Thirsk, Yorkshire (North Riding).
His daughter was registered in Thirsk in 1941.
There are over four entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Leslie Frank timber merchant Stainfiel, Sowerby Thrisk 2101 in 1939 from 1941 to 1955, and entries for Leslie Frank & Co. Ltd at the same address continue after his death.
Death of Leslie Frank in FreeBMD in April-June 1955 aged 64 in Thirsk (1B 836).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Leslie Frank died 21 May 1955 in Yorkshire, York, probate 20 December 1956 in York. "Frank Leslie of Stainfield Sowerby Thirsk Yorkshire died 21 May 1955 Adminstration York 20 December to Claire Adelaide Frank widow and Gordon Barritt Frank timber merchant. Effects £11842 11s. 8d."
There are thirty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Leslie Frank.
Leslie Frank was Felicity's first cousin once removed.
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