Jane's Roots

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• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
• 1a: The Leaper Name
• 1b: Mary Leapor
• 1g: John and Richard Leaper
• 1c: Leapers from Nottingham
• 1d: Dupuytren's Contracture
• 1e: Nottingham Leapers who died in WW1
• 1f: Blatherwick and other names
• 1g: Thomas Leaper
• Chapter 2: WILTSHIRE, DORSET AND LONDON
• 2a: The Watkins Family of Devizes
• 2b: A Georgian Draper
• 2c: A Victorian Excise Man
• 2d: The Last British Eye-Witness of Waterloo
• 2e: An East-End Tailor
• 2f: Phillip and Jane Watkins
• Chapter 3: COVENTRY
• 3a: Two friends: Hannah Hollick and Jane Judd
• 3b: John Sanders the Coventry Silk Weaver
• 3c: The Tyers Family.
• Chapter 4: THE BLACK COUNTRY
• 4a: Mary-Ann Hughes the brick-maker's wife
• Chapter 5: NORTHANTS, BUCK'S, LONDON.
• Chapter 5a: The Wheelwright - Robert Johnson
• 5b: The Entrepreneur and the Flapper
• Appendix A: Links
• Appendix B: Map of People and Places