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LEESE Family

Origin Bangalore, India
Accompanying Family Daphne, Patricia, Trevor, Margaret-Anne & Ruth
First settled in Maddington, WA
Original Occupation Captain, British Army
Occupation in Australia Brickworks foreman

MALOJA

Departure Port Bombay
Arrival Year 1949

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Captain James Leese was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and joined the South Staffordshire Regiment in 1926. He married Daphne, daughter of Captain Chas. Rogers in Bangalore in 1934. After India's Independence they emigrated to Australia with their five children.

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