Leeming

The name was suggested by the Melville City Council and was approved in 1971. It originates from Leeming Road which was the Southern boundary of the district. The name commemorates George Waters Leeming, a surveyor, who laid out the roads for the Jandakot Agricultural area in 1889. Leeming was born in 1857 in Melbourne and arrived here by the "Penola" in 1885 and married Margaret Ann Georgina Sweeting at Guildford in October 1889. He was a mining Surveyor in the Kimberley Goldfields in 1888 and later as a contractor and surveyor based at Guildford.