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Lithgow Mercury, 23 June 1933, Page 26 David Leake was born in the Coal Mining region of Brownhills, Staffordshire, England, on Christmas Day, 1856; the second son of coal miner, John Leake (32) and Mary (31) (nee Wright).  In the 1871 Census of England, David and his siblings were living with their mother in WolverhamptonContinue reading “Five Generations at The Vale”