Twiglets
From Melbourne sunshine to Manchester drizzle, and I’m down to the last but one of my great-grandfather Mark John Leah’s siblings. With any luck Ernest Albert Leah will be an easy nut to crack especially if, like MJ himself, he likes to use both his forenames.
On my benchmark 1881 Census in Openshaw, Ernest is a boy of nine and the first in the family to be born outside Cheshire. A quick search and here’s the BMD entry: born Chorlton, June quarter 1871, he must have been just a month or so off his 10th birthday when that census was taken.
On to 1891 then, and 19-year-old
