Leach Family

[BlackPearl]

Hi

Is anyone researching Leach family in Gloucestershire? Most of My Leach's are from Gloucestershire.  At the turn of the last centruy they were in the Quedgeley, Hardwick, Longney etc areas.

I have for some time (only when I have five mins lol) been trying to find the supposed connection between my Leach family and that of hollywood actor Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach).  It is a story I have been told since day dot and this 'connection' has in the past been reported in the the Citizen Newspaper.  Leslie Leach, who has now unfortunately passed away, and his son Tony were featured with their family - 5 generations in total - Tony talked about the connection to Cary stating that Cary Grant was the son of my grandfathers brother.  It also states that in his later years Cary used to return to the UK to visit Anna Vaughan, Leslie's sister at Uley.  I havent been able to find a sister called Anna unless of course this is not the name her birth was registered as.

Now, I know his grandfather to be Thomas Leach born 1857 son of Thomas Leach b. 1834 and Eliza Simmonds b. 1836.  I descend through their son Walter.  Anybody who has look at the ancestry of Cary Grant will know that his father was Elias James Leach b. 1872 son of John Leach b. Frocester abt. 1842 and Elizabeth b. abt. 1847 other than that I can no further back on his line.  Elias and his father John as of yet do not appear on my tree, I have been unable to find the connection to me if there is one and  I am able to trace my direct Leach line back from me to abt. 1695.

Will I ever prove the connection? I think not! (Probably cos there isnt one - it may just be a case of wishful thinking on whoever in mine and Leslie/Tony's family before us started the theory)

Any help or thought appreciated!

Jo

[Victor Harvey]

Source: Glos Archives
St Nicholas, Hardwicke, Glos, Burials:-
10/12/1815, LEECH, John, 72
25/08/1819, LEECHE, Joseph, 54
23/09/1824, LEACH, Jane, 8
13/09/1825, LEACH, Rachel, 84
24/11/1825, LEACH, Ann, 15
02/11/1831, LEACH, Anne, 53
11/01/1836, LEACH, Edith, 71
22/02/1836, LEECH, William, 75
20/08/1837, LEECH, Hannah, 17
02/04/1843, LEACH, William, 74
15/04/1845, LEACH, Benjamin, 66
05/12/1849, LEECH, Thomas, 3w
27/12/1851, LEACH, Hester, 78
Victor

[Berlin-Bob]

I have for some time (only when I have five mins lol) been trying to find the supposed connection between my Leach family and that of hollywood actor Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach).

You're not the only one ....   

Try this topic (it also lists some more):
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,510834.0.html

there are already some topics here about Cary Grant / Archibald Leach:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,33914.0.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,158805.0.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,158809.0.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,447691.0.html

Bob

ps: I see you are already contributing to some of the above topics 

[Tony Leach]

Hi Jo
I was told that Carry Grant was in our family tree also. My grandfather was a Thomas Leach and two of his five brothers were Les and Arthur. Arthur had three sons, Stuart, Michael and Andrew. One of which (I think it was Stuart) was a history teacher who used his position to research the family tree. This is where I heard about the connection to Carry Grant. His tree was quite a comprehensive one which even linked us to Isembard Kingdom Brunel. Unfortunately over the years I have lost touch with that side of the family and all I have inherited is the part of the family tree that relates to my lineage back to 1811. This shows the names of progressive grandfathers and their wives but only numbers for the other family members. I do have a very old family photograph with Les on the front row as a small child and showing two generations older back to Thomas and Charlotte.
If you could track down Stuart or his brothers you may be able to get a look at the full tree that he research and where the connections to CG actaully are.
Regards
Tony

[TeresaSmith-Douglas]

Hello my name is Teresa smith
And I'm trying to find information on the leach family so I can help my daughter with her tree
My great grandfather was Sidney wanford  smith his parents were (also my GG grandparents if anyone can help me fill in the rest I would be forever grateful for the leach side of my family
Emma Mae Leach 1858-December 1933 & wanford smith April 29,1849-Sept 1935
Her parents were
Benjamin leach March 4,1828-1911 & Jemima Kane 1830-1909 stroud Gloucestershire
And also as well I was always told growing up by my grandfather that Archibald Leach ( Cary Grant was a cousin but never proven

Please help with the missing pieces For the Leach side would love to grow our family tree

[Judysnider]

 Archie Leach (Cary Grant)'s grandfather was John Leach b. 1842 in Frocester, a parish of Wheatenhurst Gloucestershire. On freebmd.org you can see the birth registration as 'male Leach', no mother's maiden name as they didn't register that at that time.  Later census records show that he was the illegitimate son of Ann Leach who married George Bristow in 1844. They lived in Bristol, and you can see John Leach on the 1851 and 1861 census with the Bristow name or John Leach Bristow. John's marriage record in 1865 states his father is 'George Leach', clearly a mistake of the registrar who likely was told the father's name was George and the registrar assumed the Leach part.

Ann Leach was also born in Frocester, to William and Ann Leach. William Leach was born in Stroud Gloucestershire. Most of the Leach family census records with sibs and all are shown on Wikitree. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leach-1874