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Theodore Niehuus (1837-1912) was a teacher in the city, in both public and private systems, most notably co-proprietor of the [[Deutsche Schule (Wakefield Street)|Deutsche Schule]] in Wakefield Street.
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==Biography==
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5. Heinrich Adolph Leschen (1837-1916)
Heinrich Adolph Leschen, known as Adolph Leschen, is probably the best known and most highly esteemed member of the Leschen family in Australia. He is regarded as ‘the father of gymnastics in South Australia’ – see his Australian Dictionary of Biography entry. Adolph arrived on the Peter Godeffroy aged 20. He did some “pioneering work in the country” initially before setting up a “Deutsche Schule” school with Mr. Niehuus (who had come with the Leschen family on the Peter Godeffroy) in Wakefield Street, Adelaide in July 1859.. He was also member of the Adelaide Leidertafel. His naturalisation papers from 1862. He married Johanna Christine Dittmar in 1862. She was born in Hamburg 17 November 1841. A photograph of Adolph Leschen; photograph with fencing students; and a photograph of Leschen family members about 1912.  Also linked is a review of his career to 1899.

Adolph died 2 April 1916 at 115 Flinders Street Adelaide aged 79 years 7 months. His wife Johanna Leschen died Oct 1917 at Clyde Street Parkside aged 75 years 11 months.

They had five sons:

5.1 Heinrich (Henry) Adolph Theodor Leschen (1862-1931)
He was born 19 Dec 1862. He went to Germany aged 13 for medical education, returning to South Australia to practice. Dr Henry A. Leschen moved to Western Australia and became became a prominent Perth physician and the Principal Medical Officer of the Army Medical Corps. The Lechen Unit at the Armadale Health Service is named in his honour. An obituary, and another obituary.He married Alma Sophie Johanne Sudholz (also known as Sophia Amelia) of Gilles Plains, South Australia on 16 Sep 1890. He died when living at 3 Labouchere Rd South Perth in 22 July 1931. Alma died 29 Feb 1936, aged 72 when living at 59 Thomas St West Perth.Their children included:

5.1.1 Francis William Adolf Leschen (1891-1892)
He died 6 January 1892 at Laura, South Australia aged 5 months.

5.1.2 Arnold Rupert Leschen (1894-1981)
Born 10 Jan 1894 in Harrow Road, East Adelaide. He was an auditor and the state singles champion of Western Australia in lawn tennis. He played in the Australian Open in 1913 and enlisted in the first world war, rising to the rank of Major. He was discharged to England at war’s end where he worked for the London Fancy Box Company and married Nellie Lawson (1897-1974) at Edmonton in 1920. Later Arnold lived in Fortis Green, London and 26 Twyford Ave, East Finchley. With wife Nellie Lawson he travelled first class to Australia on the Orcades in 1952.  Arnold returned to Australia to live with his son Duncan Leschen after Nellie died at Hendon in 1974. Arnold died in Melbourne in 1981.

5.1.2.1 Charles Duncan Leschen (24 April 1921-2006?), known as Duncan, was an accountant. He married Joyce Nettlefield in 1952. In 1972 with his wife Joyce and four children he emigrated to Australia. Duncan died in Melbourne in February 2006 and Joyce 25 November 2011.

5.1.2.2 Arnold Desmond Leschen (1924 – ?) was a doctor in England and had three children by his first wife Maureen Magowan who he married at Plymouth in 1952. He remarried to Patricia Gould in 1982. They lived in Wimborne, Dorset.

5.1.3 Hilda Alma Leschen (1896-1897)
Born 1896 in Victoria she died as an infant on 26 May 1897 and is buried in Coolgardie WA.

5.1.4 Hubert Charles Oswald Leschen (1901-1996)
Born 1901 in Jarrahdale WA. He was connected with the Perth School of Languages. He visited London in 1932 and he lived at Victoria Ave Perth in 1936. He went to Germany to study at the German School of Languages in 1936 after visiting with brother Arnold in Cornwall. In 1938 he married Winifred Mary Emmy Glatte (1907-2002) in Cornwell. Winifred was born 5 January 1907, Merton, St. Mary’s, Surrey (SW London). Her father was German (Frederick), her mother English) in Cornwall. They had twins in 1939:

5.1.4.1 Richard Neville Leschen

5.1.4.2 Henry Frederick Leschen
The family returned in Australia on the Asturias in May 1948. Sons Richard and Henry moved to Melbourne from WA in about 1970 and in 1980 lived together in Glenroy. Richard later lived in Ararat.

Hubert was listed on the electoral roll as an accountant. He died in Perth in 1996. Winifred died in August 2002.

5.2 Wilhelm Frederick Ernst Leschen (1864-1938)
He was born 4 August 1864 in Adelaide, and was generally known as F.W. Leschen. He married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Pilkington in Adelaide 27 Sep 1894. They lived at Booleroo Centre where he was the manager of the ES&A Bank. Lizzie died 6 May 1895. He seemed also to be an architect In 1902 he resigned from the ES&A at Tanundra. We was buried on 3 November 1938. He was living at Fullarton.

5.3 Carl Paul Johann Leschen (3 Sep 1866-17 Oct 1925)
He married Hermine Johanne Elizabeth Strempel (1869-1905), the daughter of the Reverend A. Strempel of Hahndorf and Marie Charlotte Friedericke Meyer on 16 July 1895. She was known as Elizabeth. The couple has one child in South Australia before moving to Perth in 1898 or 1899. Elizabeth has three more children before dying 24 January 1905 aged 35 in Perth leaving three young children.

Carl married again to Wilhelmina (Minnie/Minna) Johanna Nenke (1875-1967) on 7 September 1907. They lived at Carlsruhe, Fraser Street Claremont and later at The Heights Darlington. Minnie had three children to Carl. He was a most successful banker becoming Manager of State Savings Bank Perth in 1903. In World War One he was dismissed from his influential position because of his German heritage. There are numerous newspaper articles on this story, including this one. He died in 1925 after a long illness. Leschen Way at Darlington is named after him. Wilhemina Johanna Leschen died aged 92 at Perth in 1967. Carl’s children:

5.3.1 Olga Johanna Maria Leschen (1896-1973)
Born 9 April 1896. At aged 11 she wrote this letter to the newspaper. She was a kindergarten teacher. In 1922 she was the head of the kindergarten college at Geelong. In the 1950s she was appointed to head the kindergarten activities for the Department of Immigration. Olga died 30 September 1973 in South Australia.

5.3.2 Clara Elsa Leschen (1898-1899).
Born in Adelaide she died after the family moved to Perth.

5.3.3 Carl Adolph Leschen (1901-1906).
Also listed as Adolph Carl, he died in Perth 15 July 1906.

5.3.4 Wilhelm (William) Erwin Leschen (1904-1975)
Born 9 April 1904 in Swanbourne, Western Australia. William married August 1929 to Patricia Ethel McClemans (1911-1997) at Bunbury. They had a daughter Judith Elisabeth Leschen 15 May 1930 who became a nurse. Picture of Judy Leschen in 1948. Judy married Donald Collett in 1967 and had a son in 1968 in Perth. “Bill” or W.E. Leschen lived at Darlington, W.A. His wife Patricia was granted a divorce in April 1944 on grounds of desertion. She then married a Mr Starr. W.E. Leschen then seemed to have married Marion S. John in 1944 at Barragup. He died 23 Dec 1975 at Nedlands.

5.3.5 Kurt Maximillian Leschen (1910-1910)

5.3.6 Meda (Mitty) Carlotta Leschen (Clifton / Korner) (1911- ?)
Born 4 May 1911, Meda married Benjamin Luke Cecil Clifton (1902-1959) on 2 June 1934. Ben was from an old pioneering Bunbury family, and became a government architect. A son was born at Kalgoorlie to them 20 April 1935. A picture of Meda Clifton in 1935. They left Kalgoorlie in 1937 to live in Perth which he has promoted in the Public Works Department. Meda wrote a book of verse for children illustrated by her husband (who was also an amateur artist). In the book it is stated that they lived within airshot of the animals at the South Perth Zoo. The book focused largely on her children: Andrews nicknamed Bunt and Bunty; Anna Mirian – Mim or Anna Min; and Conrad.
They had four children:

5.3.6.1 Andrew Leschen Clifton (1935-2012)
He was a artist and forestry expert. He died in Melbourne in September 2012.

5.3.6.2 Anna Miriam Clifton (1936-?)

5.3.6.3 Allan Conrad Clifton (1938- ?)

5.3.6.4 Roger Luke Clifton (1946 – ?)

Meda wrote under the name “Pandora” it seems for the West Australian newspaper. Ben Clifton died in 1959 at Fremantle aged 57. Meda married Herman Christoff Roy Korner (1886-1971) after Ben’s death in April 1964 and lived at Alfred Cove, Perth. She was still alive in 1980, living at East Fremantle.

5.3.7 Pauline Irma Lydia Leschen (1915-2006)
Born Jan 1915 at Darlington WA, she left Perth for Melbourne in 1938. Pauline became was engaged to Corp. William J Tulloch in Oct 1940 but I don’t think they married. In 1947 she was unmarried and living in Melbourne. She was a “Primrose Nurse”. She died in Adelaide 7 May 2006 aged 91.

5.4 Hugo William Robert Leschen (1868-1926).
Born 14 Nov 1868 in Adelaide, Hugo married Jeanie Way Beach 18 December 1896. He died in Melbourne 23 Oct 1926. An obituary. Another obituary. He began working with his father and later became the director of the Adelaide Gymnasium and school Way College. He was a man of “boundless energy” and founded the Cadet Corps in South Australia where he rose to the rank “Major”. Article about him from 1913. Another article which details his extensive pageant and charity work. He was also involved with Esperanto.

In 1916 they lived at Warranilla, Victoria Avenue Rose Park. Note that Victoria Avenue was later renamed Fullerton Avenue. Jeanie was in Fitzroy Terrace, Fitzroy, Adelaide in 1937 and Willcox Avenue, Prospect in 1938. Jeanie Way Leschen formerly of Adelaide died 27 Sep 1944 aged 71 – mother of Herbert, Jack and Phyllis. They had the following children:

5.4.1 Herbert Hugo Leschen (1896-1967)
He was a driver in WWI, enlisting aged 19 and fighting in France. He sailed to Colombo in 1921. He also lived in Java in 1925. He later was married to Mary (Mollie) Grace Murphy at Sydney in 1928. He was perhaps in the tea industry in Ceylon. They lived in Ceylon from 1929 until at least 1937 when they went on a world trip. Mary died 16 July 1951 at 31 Avenue Road Kooyong. He later married Nell Austin of Malvern in Toorak in 1952. They lived in Kooyong. They had a son, Bill.  In 1961 H.H. Leschen was chairman of the Australian Tea and Coffee Traders; Association, Melbourne. Herbert died in Melbourne in 1967.  He was also known as ‘Bunny’.

5.4.2 Wilfred Frederick Robert Leschen (Jack) (1905- ?)
Wilfred F Leschen was also known as Jack Leschen or J. W. Leschen. He married in Adelaide April 1928 Elsa (Peggy) von Wiadrowski on New Mile End. They moved to Perth. They had a son when living at 6 Florence Road Nedlands 3 July 1931, and another son on 13 Oct 1933. He joined the timber industry in Adelaide with Rosenfeld and Co and later became general manager of Cullity Timbers of Perth. In 1951 he lived at Hill Way Nedlands. He retired from Cullity in 1965, and still lived with Elsa in 1980.

5.4.3 Phyllis Leschen (Hawkes) (1905-1976?)
Born 30 Dec 1905 at Warranilla, Rose Park Adelaide. She was an Adelaide socialite commonly pictured and reported on in the social columns of newspapers. A report of a dance for her in 1923. Picture of Phyllis from 1929. Another picture from 1931. in 1932 she visited her brother in Colombo. Another picture from 1937. Phyllis married John Leslie Hawkes in 1939. In 1951 they lived at Lynington Avenue Tusmore. John Hawkes died in 1974. I think Phyllis died in 1976.

5.5 Waldermar Kritkampk Repenning (W.K.R.) Leschen (1876-1943)
Born in 4 March 1876. A court case from June 1893. He married Harriett Adelaide Mounsey (died Victoria 1958) and they moved to Perth. He is listed in the Perth rates book in 1899 as an “athlete”. They later lived in Melbourne where he worked as an accountant for construction engineering firm Babcock and Wilcox. He used the name Waldemar Keith Richard Leschen and sometimes simply Richard Leschen. Richard Leschen died in Melbourne 5 August 1943 aged 67. His estate went to Florence Elizabeth Leschen who was his widow, so he must have married again. Florence Elizabeth Leschen died in Victoria in 1958. Waldemar and Harriett had a son, William Henry Gordon Leschen (1899-1961), born in Perth in 1899. William’s service record. He was in the Melbourne Ports area in 1924, and died in Melbourne in 1961. Note: A Keith William Leschen was born to Waldemar Leschen and Margaret Haynes in Melbourne in 1902. -->
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==Published Obituary==

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From the Adelaide Observer, Saturday 21 December 1901:
<blockquote>" Mr. John Bohlmann, a colonist of 55 years, died at his residence, Kermode street, North Adelaide, on Tuesday night, at the age of 90 years. The deceased gentleman was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1811, and arrived in South Australia by the ship Patell in 1846. Soon after coming to this state he joined the Locomotive Department, which was then established at Bowden. Mr. Bohlmann retired in 1888, having retained the respect and regard of his superior officers and fellow-workmen. He resided in North Adelaide for 51 years, and up to within a few days of his death he enjoyed fairly good health. He has left a widow, three sons—Messrs. H. Bohlmann, of H.M. Customs; J. Bohlmann, of Messrs. H. Muecke & Co., Port Adelaide; and Mr. G. Bohlmann—and three daughters”. <ref>{{cite news |author= |title= Death of Mr. Bartels|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42992522 |work= The South Australian Register |location=Adelaide, South Australia |date=30 November 1878 |access-date=}}</ref></blockquote>" -->

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