Nicholas John Treleaven
From the “Cyclopedia of Western Australia 1912/13”
Nicholas Treleaven
Nicholas John Cole Treleaven, who was Manager of the Katanning Branch of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, [ 2 ] was born at Port Adelaide, South Australia, on January 7, 1870.
He received his education at Prince Alfred College, and at eighteen years of age, joined the staff of the Bank of South Australia at its head office at Adelaide. In 1892 he resigned from the service in order to transfer to that of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited and, after four years’ connection with the Adelaide Branch of this institution, received promotion to the General Manager’s Department in Melbourne.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Treleaven was transferred to the Inspectors’ Division for Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, and subsequently, for six years, filled the position of relieving manager in South Australia and Victoria.
The Union Bank, Katanning, 1929
About the end of 1904 he received appointment to the permanent position of manager and came to Western Australia to open a branch of the Union Bank at Katanning.
Apart from his official duties, Mr. Treleaven was largely interested in landed property near Broome Hill, where he owned an estate of 2,500 acres, highly improved, where mixed farming operations were carried on with considerable success. The property had 1,000 acres under tillage, with a fine flock of sheep, in numbers running well into four figures.
Mr. Treleaven found outdoor recreation in the game of tennis, but if opportunity offered, he drove to his estate, where wide scope for healthy exercise was always available. He was married in 1904 to Muriel, daughter of Mr. Thomas Curson, works manager of the Central Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, and had one daughter and one son.
Family Notices:
Adelaide Observer
28 November, 1904
MARRIAGES
TRELEAVEN – CURSON: On the 2nd November, at St. George’s Church, Gawler, by the Rev. John Lumsdon, Nicholas John Cole, son of Nicholas Treleaven, Semaphore, to Emma Muriel, daughter of Thomas Curson, Gawler
West Australian
1 December, 1951
DEATHS:
TRELEAVEN: On Nov. 29, at South Perth. Nicholas John Cole, beloved husband of the late Muriel Treleaven of Katanning, loved father of Dorothy and John, father-in-law of Margaret and grandpa of Nicholas and Peter; in his 82nd year. Privately cremated at Karrakatta on Nov. 30. D. J. Chipper and Son.