Birth: 17 December 1903 Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
Father: William Clemishaw Leslie 1871-1945
Mother: Annie Elizabeth Foster 1870-1953
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 April 1934 Whitegate Drive Baptist Church, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
Wife: Grace Stubbs 1909-1995
Death: 21 February 1983 Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
Burial: 25 February 1983 Plot E 490, Carleton Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
Felicity Ruth Leslie [Croucher] 1946-a1982
John Duncan Leslie 1947-1994
Born on the same day as the Wright brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk. Birth of Joseph Leslie in FreeBMD in January-March 1904 in Fylde (8E 626).
The family moved to Glasgow after he was born. He heard a violin being played in the tenement and so took up the instrument.
In the 1911 census as Joseph Leslie aged 7, born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and living with his parents (William Clemishaw and Annie Elizabeth), two brothers (Alec Dancan and Donald Stuart) and sister (Phyllis Margaret) in nine rooms at 51 Warbreck Drive, Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire.
He went to Blackpool Grammer School.
In the 1921 census as Joseph Leslie aged 17 years 4 months, born in Blackpool, Lancashire, single, a sewyors (sic - in the index, surveyors on the original) assistant employed by Messrs J Parkinson & Sons Building Contractors at Talbot Saw Mills, Blackpool, and living with his parents (William and Annie E), brother (Donald S) and sister (Phyllis) at 66 Dickinson (sic - in the index, Dickson on the original) Road, Blackpool, Lancashire.
Marriage of Joseph F Leslie and Grace Stubbs in FreeBMD in April-June 1934 in Fylde (8E 1562).
On a copy of the entry of marriage number 36 in 1934 in the Flyde Joseph Foster Leslie married Grace Stubbs at the Whitegate Drive Baptist Church on 28 April 1934. He was aged 30 a bachelor living at 116 Bispham Road, Blackpool and was employed as an insurance inspector, and his father was William Clemishaw Leslie, a jeweller. His brother, Donald Stuart Leslie, was a witness.
From newspaper advertisement for his wedding: Grace Stubbs daughter of Mr and Mrs G Stubbs, 37 Mere Road and Joseph F Leslie of Mr and Mrs W C Leslie Bermersyde, Bispham Road. He was a member of the Dramatic Society of Old Boys, Students Association Chairman, Old Boys Luncheon Club Chairman, Blackpool Music Feastival Steward, Librarian to the North Lancashire Insurance Institute, a member of the Blackpool Sketching Club, Blackpool Chess Club, Courtney Players Dramatic Society and Anonymous Players. The best man was Donald S Leslie and the Groomsman R A Keiller.
Bought (had built by James Chadwick company) Little Croft (now number 18), Poulton Old Road, Carleton for £686-19-4d where he lived all his married life, using W&A Blackhurst of 22 Edward Street, Blackpool as solicitors.
Passed the ACII (Advanced Diploma in Insurance), was employed by Pearl Insurance and managed the Blackpool branch of Commercial Union.
There are three entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Joseph Leslie address Little Croft, Blackpool Old Road, number Backpool 1920 from 1935 to 1937.
He was groomsman at Reginald Stubbs wedding in 1939.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Joseph F Leslie born 17 December 1903, married, an assurance coy (sic - in the index, on the original, Company?) manager, and living with Grace Leslie (wife?) at 18 Poulton Old Road, Blackpool, Lancashire.
There are twenty five entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Joseph Leslie address 18 Poulton Old Road, number Backpool 1920 changing to 21920 in 1947 to 32943 in 1962 from 1939 to 1982.
He was chairman of the board of governors of the Blackpool Boys Grammer School and there is a photograph of him in 1951 on the Meliora website. He was also a governor of the Covent School and also a Justice of the Peace.
He was a painter, mainly landscape water colour, but also oil portraits, and also did some engraving. Had a string quartet, but a different one to his wife's.
He was the informant of his father's death on 25 March 1945, and was living at 18 Poulton Old Road Blackpool at the time.
Death of Joseph Foster Leslie, born 17 December 1903, in FreeBMD in January-March 1983 in Blackpool/F (40 593).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Joseph Foster Leslie died 21 February 1983 in Blackpool, probate 27 May 1983 in Liverpool. "Leslie, Joseph Foster of 18 Poulton Old Rd Blackpool died 19 June 1983 Probate Liverpool 27 May £11717".
Buried at Carleton Cemetery, Blackpool in plot E 490 which was purchased by his mother for her heirs and assigns. In gold on black granite:
There are twenty six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Joseph Foster Leslie.
Andrew & Nancy Peel's Family Tree has an entry for Joseph Foster Leslie born on 17 December 1903 in Blackpool, Lancashire, parents William Clemishaw Leslie and Annie Elizabeth Foster, his marriage to Grace Stubbs on 28 April 1934 in Blackpool, his two children and his death in Blackpool on 21 February 1983.
Entry in Geneanet Community Trees Index for Joseph Foster Leslie.
|Joseph with his father and his two brothers - Donald and Alec
Joseph Foster Leslie was Felicity's father.
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