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almost feel as if I know Martin Leah junior already. Born in Broken Cross, Cheshire, in 1855, I must have bumped into him a dozen times when I was searching for his father Martin, my 2x great-grandfather who sadly took his own life. The same goes for Martin’s nearest sibling, Ann Ellen, who’d taken their father into her home when their mother Mary died after falling downstairs the year before. (Grief, this is starting to sound like an episode of ‘Coronation Street’…). Anyway, all I mean is that I think I might be able to do a ‘buy one get one free’ and research Martin junior and Ann Ellen

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