Leslie Michael William Patrick Cassidy (1892 - 1981)

Born 1892 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Violet Olive (Rolfe) Cassidy — married 1914 (to 1916) in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 1981 at about age 89 in Colonel Light Gardens, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Leslie was born in South Australia in 1892, son of Michael Cassidy and Elizabeth nee Drummond.

He was a bricklayer and a jockey (in those days jockeys had to have more than one job). He married Olive Rolfe who died in childbirth in February 1916.

He then married Ivy Myrtle Jenkins, second daughter of W. Jenkins, on the 2nd June, 1917, at St. Luke's Church, Adelaide (likely the St Luke's Church on the west side of Whitmore Square). Leslie was 25 and Ivy, 21 years of age. They had 4 children.

They lived at 52 Corrunna Avenue, Colonel Light Gardens for the rest of their lives in a house names "Ethelville". When he gave up being a jockey, he rode everywhere on a bicycle.

Leslie died in Colonel Light Gardens in 1981 and is buried in Centennial Park Cemetery.

Sources

• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Adelaide Office, South Australia, Australia, Reference: Volume 511 page 6 (Birth)

• "Australia, South Australia, School Admission Registers, 1873-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHX-GC4K : 17 August 2019), Leslie Cassidy, 26 Feb 1900; citing School Enrollment, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, citing Attorney General of South Australia, Adelaide; FHL microfilm 103420796.

• "Australia, South Australia, School Admission Registers, 1873-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHJ-817S : 17 August 2019), Leslie Cassidy, 22 Jun 1903; citing School Enrollment, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, citing Attorney General of South Australia, Adelaide; FHL microfilm 103420798.

* Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Adelaide Office, South Australia, Australia, Reference: Volume 258 page 301 (Marriage)

• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Adelaide Office, South Australia, Australia, Reference: Volume 271 page 646 (Marriage)

• Cemetery information from Leslie's granddaughter, Rae Campbell.