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Leslie George Palmer Lamont
Male 1887 - 1950

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  • Birth  6 Aug 1887  Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  12 May 1950  Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I07487  Lamont
    Last Modified  08 Aug 2010 
     
    Father  George Edward Alexander Lamont,   b. Abt 1855, Christchurch New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Sep 1899, Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Johanna McNamara,   b. 25 Apr 1865,   d. 31 Mar 1932 
    Married  18 Nov 1886  Fitzory Melbourne, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F2428  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Hannah Margaret Reilly,   b. 31 Jan 1887, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Oct 1967 
    Married  20 Oct 1911  Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Austrailia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. George Phillip Lamont,   b. 28 Nov 1911, Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jul 2002, Bularu, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Leslie Osmond Lamont,   b. 10 Feb 1915, Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Mar 1965, St. Ives, Sydney, NSW, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F2431  Group Sheet
     
  • Photos
    Leslie George Lamont    		Leslie George Lamont
    Dunlop Rubber 1948
     
  • Notes 
    • Leslie George Palmer LAMONT, was the first born to George and Johanna on 6 August, 1887 (16437), at 95 (69) South Street, Ascot Vale Melbourne Australia.

      His schooling, according to a cousin, took place in Ascot Vale and could well have been at a technical school after primary school. By the age of 24 he had married Hannah Margaret REILLEY on 20 December, 1911, at the Congregational Church, Ascot Vale. At the time of their marriage he was living at 69 South Street, Ascot Vale, while Hannah was a dressmaker, living at 32 Bank Street, Ascot Vale - just a few streets away. The Sands & McDougall edition of 1928 has a Leslie G Lamont residing in Boundary Road, Burwood, while the 1935 and 1936 editions list him as residing at 2 Dickens Street, Glen Iris. We can only assume it is our Leslie George Palmer Lamont. Can we speculate that they initially met at school? Bank Street was and is where the Ascot Vale Primary school is located. Leslie was a plumber at the time of his marriage and when his children were born he was listed as a foreman. He worked for Dunlop Rubber in the moulding plant for a total of 33 years.

      Leslie and Hannah lived at several different addresses over the next sixteen years. They first moved into the Lamont family home at 69 South Street, Ascot Vale as the electoral rolls of 1913 and 1914 had Johanna (the mother), Leslie George Palmer and his wife Hannah all residing there. According to the rolls, all three remained at South Street through to 1915.

      Sands & McDougall has a Leslie G Lamont residing at 8 Dean Street, Moonee Ponds, from 1920 until 1925 and from 1925 until 1927 in Boundary Road, Burwood.

      By the electoral rolls of 1929, the couple had moved to Hedgegrove Cranbourne Road, Frankston, and the following year to Dandenong Road, Frankston. Why so many moves, one only can ask and ponder?



      By early 1937 they had again moved, this time to 5 Queen Street, Canterbury. The family remained there until around 1940.



      By 1943 the electoral rolls had the family residing at 21 Compton Street, Canterbury, a property they did not own and only rented. They remained there until 1944. By 1945 they had moved back to Frankston and until 1950, were residing at 35 Cranbourne Road. This last move was due to the fact that the house in Canterbury had water under the foundations and Hannah was getting bronchial pneumonia and their doctor said to move to the sea.



      So what was married life like for Leslie and Hannah? They obviously lived through two world wars and the Great Depression of 1929, so times must have been tough for the majority of their life together. Leslie was 29 when WWI broke out and 52 years of age when WWII broke out. There is no record of his involvement in either conflict. He did work for Dunlop from 1917 until 1950 so maybe he served his country by working in an essential industry such as rubber.



      Leslie George Palmer Lamont died on 12 May, 1950 (18542), aged 62, at the Community Hospital Frankston. He died from mesenteric thrombosis that lasted several days and arteriosclerosis that he had suffered from for a number of years. He was cremated and his ashes buried at Springvale Crematorium in the family plot, Grevillea Memorial area, Garden J1, bed 3, rose 43.
     
  

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