Sir Oscar Lionel ISAACHSEN b. 8 Sep 1885 Adelaide SA d. 1 May 1951 Sydney NSW: Christina and Donald McLEAN and their descendants

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Christina and Donald McLEAN from Scotland 1837

1885 - 1951 (65 years)

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Name	Oscar Lionel ISAACHSEN
Title	Sir
Born	8 Sep 1885	Adelaide SA [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Public Office	Knighted
Occupation	General manager of Bank of Adelaide
Died	1 May 1951	Sydney NSW [1]
Buried	Y [3]
	Isaachsen,Oscar Lionel d.01/05/1951 in Sydney NSW at 65yoa, last residence at HAWTHORN, SA and cremated and returned to West Terrace Cemetery with a cremation service.
Person ID	I-6299	Christina and Donald McLean
Last Modified	28 Jun 2020

Family Ella Gertrude SCHUETZE, b. 1884, d. 8 Jun 1976 (Age 92 years)

Married 8 Dec 1910 Nairne SA [4]

Children

+	1. Oscar Cedric ISAACHSEN, Lt Colonel, b. 5 Jun 1911, Mannum SA , d. 28 Apr 2009, Adelaide SA (Age 97 years) []

Last Modified 27 Apr 2019 13:02:44

Family ID F-2070 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S-185] Adelaide Banking-Sir Oscar Lionel Isaachsen 1955, Chpt 11 of 12 Chapters of Ron A Potters book "The Bank of Adelaide 1865-1965", 2 May 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
Author Ron Potter SA;. ""....As General Manager during war Isaachsen was to play a leader's role in this process. His influence was to be most direct upon the Bank itself where half the male staff was to be with the services, leaving the remainder to carry the added burden of successive War Loans, Savings Certificates and Ration Coupons. Disillusionment and despondency could be dangerous enemies when the tides of disaster were at their peak or when, with ultimate victory in sight, fortunes were to be made in the black and gray markets outside and unskilled process workers could earn twice the wages of a bank officer.""
Synopsist by Ron Potter SA; The guttering candles of appeasement were to burst into flames of war soon after Oscar Lionel Issaachsen became General Manager. In the years of adversity and frustration that were to follow the rate gift of leadership was the greatest patriotic contribution that any man could make. A great admirer of Churchill, Isaachsen was to show in his own smaller sphere many of the qualities of his idol. Like Churchill, Isaachsen knew the value of the symbolical gesture, running up the Union Jack over the Bank on the morning of September 4th, 1939 and flying it daily on a "symbol of hope" throughout the dark days of war, until peace was announced in August, 1945.
[S-75] BDM SA, https://www.genealogysa.org.au requires log in , 2 May 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
Oscar Lionel ISAACHSEN Birth Date: 1885, September 08 Father: Oscar Henry ISAACHSEN Mother: Lydia SMITH Birth Place/Residence: North Adelaide Ref/Page: 359/426
[S-113] NEWSPAPER TROVE Adelaide Advertiser SA, 3 May 1951 Page 18, 2 May 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
"Isaachsen-the friends of the late Sr Oscar Lionel Isaachsen are respectfully informed that his Funeral wil leave his late residence, 42 George Stree, Hawthorn, on Thursday at 3:00on for the crematorium. West Errace, Adelaide. the Rev CWE Swan will officiate. .....""
[S-75] BDM SA, https://www.genealogysa.org.au login required, 19.1.2017 Researcher Lorna McLean.
marriage;8 Dec 1910 Reg No;245/696 ISAACHSEN,Oscar Lionel BRIDE; SCHUETZE,Ella Gertrude in Nairne SA. No other known/offered/found evidence to date.
Nairne is a small township in SA, founded by Matthew Smillie in 1839 and named for his wife's family.