Researching William Leitch
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2857 people with the Leitch surname? In that year Leitch was ranked number 1402 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Leitch on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Leitch and the Leitch Genealogy
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Leitch Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called William Leitch
William Leitch (footballer)
William Douglas Leitch (1863 – 1943 ), born on 16 December 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania to Scottish settlers John Leitch and Jean McCrone from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was a Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator. Leitch was an employee and later board of directors member of Henry Jones's IXL jam manufacturing business; taking his first job at the company at the age of only ten alongside Sir Henry Jones placing labels on jam tins, and working there until his death, he gave almost seventy years continuous service. Many of his sons would also have careers working for the firm during their lifetimes.
In his youth Leitch was a highly regarded Australian rules football player at the Railway Football Club. In later life he was a patron of Australian rules football in Tasmania, and was a long-time Tasmanian delegate to the Australian National Football Council. The William Leitch Medal for the fairest and best player in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League was named in his honour.
He was married to Jane Littlejohn (1865 - 1948) at Chalmer's Free Presbyterian church on 17 September 1884, with whom he had 13 children; Elsie May (1883 - 1949), William Douglas (1885 - 1919), John Stanley George (1886 - 1962), Gilbert Barry (1888 - 1972), Dorothy (1890 - 1976), Daniel (1891 - 1891), Edith Isabel (1893 - 1978), Elvira Jean (1894 - 1982), Olive Mary Ruth (1896 - 1946), Winifred Jane (1898 - 1987), Ronald Bruce (1901 - 1966), Alan McDonald (1902 - 1976), and Basil James (1907 - 1974).
One of his sons, Alan McDonald Leitch, was also an inductee of the AFL hall of fame, having played for New Town and later Carlton.
William Leitch died at his home on Arthur Street, North Hobart on 24 May 1943. His remains were cremated at the Cornelian Bay Crematorium chapel.
Source: William Leitch (footballer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Leitch (scientist)
William Leitch (20 May 1814 – 9 May 1864) was a Scottish astronomer, naturalist and mathematician, and a minister of the Church of Scotland. Leitch studied mathematics and science at the University of Glasgow, and moved to Canada in 1860 to take the post of principal at Queen's University.
Space historian Robert Godwin published in October 2015 his discovery that Leitch gave the first modern scientific explanation of the potential for space exploration using rockets (1861). Leitch was said to be "a distinguished astronomer, naturalist and mathematician", and his proposal for rocket spaceflight came four decades prior to more well-known proposals by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1903), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1913), Robert H. Goddard (1914), and Hermann Oberth (1923). Leitch's rocket spaceflight description was first provided in his 1861 essay "A Journey Through Space", which was later published in his book God's Glory in the Heavens (1862). This description correctly attributed rocket thrust to the "internal reaction" (Newton's laws of motion) and correctly identified that rocket thrust is most effective in the vacuum of space. In the third edition of his biography of Leitch, Godwin explained Leitch's connections to the Boston community, and specifically how both Leitch and Robert Hutchings Goddard both knew and corresponded with patent attorney Orson Desaix Munn.
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