Sydney Leslie O'Donnell of Vaucluse
- Born: 1887, Redfern district, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 3
- Married (1): 20 May 1912, St. John's, Darlinghurst, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 1 2
- Married (2): 1945, Chatswood District, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 7
- Died: 13 May 1952, Java Head, 3 Jensen Ave., Vaucluse, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 4 5
 Research Notes:
Co-executor and one of the Trustees of his father's Will.
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Electoral Rolls...
In 1930 Sydney Leslie O'Donnell, accountant, and wife Lillian Mabel were at 20 Flood St., Bondi.
In 1936 Sydney Leslie O'Donnell, accountant, was at 20 Flood St., Bondi. Also there was Noreen Joyce O'Donnell, assistant.
In 1943 Sydney Leslie O'Donnell, secretary, was at 71 New South Head Rd., Vaucluse.
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" O'DONNELL Sydney Leslie—May 13, 1972, at his residence Java Head, 3 Jensen Avenue, Vaucluse, dearly beloved husband of Rita and loved father of Joyce (Mrs R. M. O'Donohue, Newcastle) Jean (Mrs D. Solomon, Parsley Bay) and Leslie (North Richmond)
O'DONNELL Sydney Leslie—May 13, 1972, at his residence Java Head, 3 Jensen Avenue, Vaucluse, son of the late George and Emily O'Donnell, Wairoa, Bondi, and brother of Maud, George (deceased) Edith (deceased) and Stella (deceased)."
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Will of Sydney Leslie O'Donnell late of Vaucluse, Retired, written 10 Jan 1950, probate 6 Aug 1952.
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me SYDNEY LESLIE O'DONNELL of No. 3 Jensen Avenue Vaucluse in the State of New South Wales, Retired. 1. I HEREBY REVOKE all former Wills and other Testamentary Dispositions heretofore made by me AND DECLARE this to be my last Will and Testament. 2. I APPOINT my wife HENRIETTA FRANCES O'DONNELL and my son LESLIE CAMPBELL O'DONNELL executrix executor and trustees of this my will. 3. I GIVE AND BEQUEATH to my said wife all my furniture household effects and jewellery free of all duties whatsoever. 4. I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH the rest and residue of my estate both real and personal of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situate (hereinafter called my residuary estate) to my said trustees UPON TRUST to sell call in and convert same into money at such time and in such manner as they shall think fit with power to postpone the sale calling in and conversion of the whole or any part of my said residuary estate.... I DIRECT my trustees shall stand possessed of the proceeds of the sale calling in and conversion of my said residuary estate and any moneys belonging to me at my death and of any part or parts of my residuary estate for the time being unconverted UPON TRUST to pay the nett income derived from my residuary estate to my wife the said HENRIETTA FRANCES O'DONNELL during her lifetime and from and after her death UPON TRUST as to both capital and income for all my children equally between them as tenants in common absolutely PROVIDED should any child of mine predecease me leaving issue living at my death such issue shall take and if more than one equally between them as tenants in common the share which his her or their parent would have taken hereunder had such parent survived me. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have to this and the preceding page of this my Will hereunto subscribed my name this tenth day of January one thousand nine hundred and fifty.
S. LESLIE O'DONNELL.
SIGNED by the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence us both present at the same time and we at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. John Magney, Solicitor, Sydney. M. Gairns, Clerk to abovenamed.
6th August, 1952. Probate of the last Will of the abovenamed deceased was granted to HENRIETTA FRANCES O'DONNELL and LESLIE CAMPBELL O'DONNELL the Executors named in the said Will. Testator died on the 13th May, 1952. Estate sworn at the sum of £6603. 8
Marriage Information:
Sydney married Lillian Mabel Jolly, daughter of Leslie Jolly, on 20 May 1912 in St. John's, Darlinghurst, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 1 2.
Marriage Notes:
"O'DONNELL.-JOLLY.—May 20. at St. John's. Darlinghurst, by the Rev. E C Beck, Sydney Leslie, youngest son of George O'Donnell, Esq, Wairoa, Flood street, Bondi, to Lillian Mabel, second daughter of Leslie Jolly, Esq. Leytonstone, Frankland street Launceston, Tasmania."
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Reserved decision was given in the consolidated suits in this case. Sydney Leslie O'Donnell asked for a decree for restitution of conjugal rights directed to Lillian Mabel O'Donnell (formerly Jolly), who denied remaining away from her husband without Justification. She raised the issue whether her husband had been guilty of cruelty towards her, and asked for judicial separation on that ground. The husband denied his wife's allegations.
The parties were married on May 20, 1912.at Darlinghurst, according to the rites of the Church of England.
His Honor said he was satisfied that the husband was never drunk or seriously affected by liquor, and he thought the wife had no substantial ground for complaint on that account. He accepted the husband's story that he had refused to speak to his wife in order to avoid quarrelling and abuse, and that he adopted that course under considerable provocation; but he thought the husband intended it to be a punishment to her as much as a protection for himself. The reconciliation which followed, however, brought a period of comparative happiness and tranquillity, which he thought lasted until December, 1935. At that time, his Honor was satisfied, the wife was not afraid of her husband, and living on good terms with him; and that he had not been guilty of cruelty to her. Most of the trouble up to that time, originated, he thought, In the wife's desire to break away from habits of life in which she had found happiness and contentment with her husband in the first 20 years of their married life. He had come to the conclusion that the petitioner was sincere in his prayer for an order for restitution of conjugal rights, and was influenced by the fact that, for many years, the respondent had been a good wife to him. and a good mother to his children.
His Honor granted the husband a decree for restitution of conjugal rights. The wife's petition was dismissed. 6
Marriage Information:
Sydney also married Henrietta Frances Broadbent in 1945 in the Chatswood District, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 7.
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