X Major Henry LECKEYDear Christine,Thank you for your nicely worded request forinformation concerning Major you would besurprised how many enquires we get from people whonever say please or thank you, but first I have topoint out a few things. Sadly we do not have aphotograph, that is to say we may, there areliterally hundreds of photographs of officers, buttheir names were never recorded on the reverse.The Cheshire Constabulary was formed in April1857; there are many thousands of records, theseare held by the Cheshire Record Office, Chester. Ias a retired Police officer and voluntary PoliceMuseum Researcher am slowly extracting theserecords. Cheshire Police Officer Enrolment Recordsare held under Reference CJP7 Volumes 1-5. Thesefive volumes are very large and in poor condition,run from 1857- 22 March 1913; the informationwhich you seek would therefore be recorded inVolume 4. The information regarding his marriageis retained in CJP24/2, 1847-1966. And with regardto his pension CJP20/2/1, 1857-1965.I say all this because I want to try and reassureyou that what I give you is as it appears in therespective volumes. However if you so wish, youcan of course have the records confirmed by theChester Records Office Archivist. But it would beremiss of me if I did not point out that TheRecord Office will charge you a minimum of £27 persearch per volume; therefore your total bill wouldbe £81, so please be aware. The Museum charges,for searching the three volumes are on a reducingscale i.e. dependant on the information recorded,the maximum amount payable is £10, whichrepresents good value. Your remittance is £10 andas we are working on a trust basis please forwardpayment by cheque made payable to the 'Museum ofPolicing in Cheshire' to The Curator, Mr. PeterWroe, Museum of Policing in Cheshire, WarringtonPolice Station, Arpley Street, Warrington,Cheshire. WA1. 1LQ.If you also read the history of the CheshireConstabulary "To the Best of Our Skill andKnowledge" which is on the Museum Web Site, I feelcertain that a useful picture can be obtained oflife in the force at the time, my own opinion isthat discipline was draconian and those whostrayed outside the rule's were fined way abovewhat they earned or dismissed. Also therestrictions on their private life, an officer wasnot allowed to drink on or off duty even in hisown home. It all comes down to the fact that upuntil the 1960's every Chief Constable of Cheshirewas an ex military officer and they of coursebrought with them the military codes of practice.Major is an exception to the rule as he is onlyone of a handful of officers who do not havediscipline offences recorded against them fortheir entire service.I trust you will enjoy what follows and can I askyou when you get a moment would you send a quickmail so I can mark of your enquiry as completed.If you have any further questions please don'thesitate to contact me. Jim Talbot. Trustee andResearcher, Cheshire Museum of Policing.Collar Number/Rank. 267 Sgt. Major Henry LECKEYBorn. 1860. Climrooney, Ballinallee,Edgeworthstown, Longford. Ireland. (Please bemindful of these spellings as they may have, whenfirst recorded in 1889, been recordedincorrectly).Date of Entry. 4th November 1889Date of Leaving. 31st March 1916.Final Date of Leaving. 31st March 1916.How Discharged. To Pension.Initial Posting. HQ Reserve.Other Postings and Dates. 24 November 1889 Hyde,16 January 1892 Godley, 07 November 1896Duckinfield, 22 October 1911 Lostock Gralam, 01July 1912 Northwich.Miscellaneous Information. Prior undated serviceof 7 years 2 months with the Royal Engineers.Religion Protestant, Height 5' 11", Age 29, EyesBlue, Hair Brown, Complexion Fresh, BuildProportional. Scar on right thigh. Testimonialsand Character "Exemplary" sent 30th March 1916.Age on retirement 55 years 4 months. Totalservice 26 years 79 days. Died 29th December 1928aged 68 years 1 month.Misconduct. No Misconduct reports recorded.Promotion. 1st December 1896 Acting Sgt. 7th May1899 Sgt.Pay. 5th November 1889 23/11d, 1st July 189024/6d, 1st July 1891 26/3d, 1st December 189126/10d, 1st December 1892 28/-, 1st December 189429/2d, 1st December 1896 30/4d, 7th May 189933/3d, 1st June 1901 34/5d, 1st June 1903 36/2d,20th August 1911 37/4d, 1st April 1912 41/5d, 1stJuly 1915 46/8d. Discharged on a pension of£81.2s.2d per annum. Total time on pension 12years 273 days. Total pension received £1034. 2s.6d.Awards/Good Conduct/Other information. No GoodConduct reports recorded.Marriage Record (Please note the original recordis very poorly written and some of the place namesare indistinguishable).Officer. Major Henry LECKEYOccupation. Royal Engineers (Army)Age. 25 years.Condition. Bachelor.Place of residence at Marriage. Cemmaep (I amassuming that this may be in Montgomeryshire)Date of Marriage. 6th August 1885.Place Married. Parish Church, Llanllwchaiam.Fathers Name. James LECKEYFathers Occupation. Farmer, Montgomery.Spouse. Agnes OLIVER. Unusually Agnes's death isrecorded in the police pension register as 10thJuly 1950 and her place of death is given as 44Romney Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne.Occupation. Nil.Age. 22 years.Condition. Spinster.Place of residence. Llanllwchaiam. Montgomery.Fathers Name. David Oliver.Fathers Occupation. Manufacturer. Montgomery.