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Jane Leech

b. 1808

Housewife. Daughter of Ann Greensides and William Greensides, sawyer, of York. Married John Leech in Huddersfield in 1829. Admitted to Wakefield Pauper Lunatic Asylum on two occasions, the first in about 1863 when she was a patient for two and a half years, and the second on 16 March 1869; discharged 5 November 1874.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2295/38/26), 1881 (RG11/4383/109/47

Wakefield Record Office: C85/3/6/22/p573-576/4.

West Yorkshire, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1813–1935 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 January 2020)

Yorkshire, England, Church of England parish records, 1538–1873 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 January 2020)

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