Leask
(Cir 1885-)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. Rose Ellen McDonald

2. Elizabeth Solomiena Pool

Leask

  • Born: Cir 1885
  • Marriage (1): Rose Ellen McDonald on 3 Apr 1911 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia
  • Marriage (2): Elizabeth Solomiena Pool in 1912 in Victoria Australia

  General Notes:

Rae Bof comments:
George's brother is a mystery one. His name is Harold Douglas Haig Burns -- but his birth certificate says his surname is LEASK. Now this Leask whose name is Harold Thomas gave the information on the brith and he stated that he had married Rose Ellen Burns formally McDONALD on 3 Apr 1911 Melbourne.
There is no such record of the marriage in Victoria, NSW or South Australia. We cannot find what happened to Harold Thomas Leask, but we did find his marriage to Elizabeth Pool in 1912 Vic. As Harold Douglas was born in April 1917 - there is no way Leask could have secured a divorce to marry again in that short time.
This Rose Ellen McDonald married 1907 Toolamba Vic to John Brown Burns -- George William's information has his father as John Brown.
Records show that Rose and John had four children. John James, Janet Ellen, Edna May and George William.
Rose moved to NSW and we have noted that her mother also came to NSW -- it is Rose and her mothers death certificates that we have requested.

There is no record of Rose marrying Leask in NSW, SA or VIC -- Harold Leask did give the information on Harold Douglas Haig Leask's birth certificate. It was a shock to my cousin when she applied for her father's birth certificate to find the "Leask": -- Her father always used Burnes. He entered the Navy, Air Force and married all as "Burns"

Rose also gave information to the Navy that she married in 1935 to a "Cunningham" -- there is no record of that. Checked the electoral rolls and she was living alone as Burns in 1936. She died as Burns, that is why we are hoping the death certificate gives us some more information. The only reason we won't is, if Harold Douglas gave the information. We are hoping his sister gave the information or even his brother.

I got the death certificate of Harold Burns brother George and it states his mother as Rose Ellen and father John Brown Burns.

I got the death certificate of Rose Ellen Burns and it mentions Janet, George, and Harold and one female deceased. No mention of the mysterious Jessie. Although on the army record of George his NOK is mentioned as Jessie.

The information on Ancestry has Rose having John, Janet, Edna (dec) and George, with John Brown.

I think I have to believe that Leask is actually the father of Harold Douglas Haig Burns.


Leask married Rose Ellen McDonald, daughter of John McDonald and Ellen Wilson, on 3 Apr 1911 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. (Rose Ellen McDonald was born in 1889 in Bailliaston, Victoria Australia and died in 1936 in Sydney, NSW Australia.)


Leask next married Elizabeth Solomiena Pool in 1912 in Victoria Australia. (Elizabeth Solomiena Pool was born circa 1890.)


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