Biographies

The warrant for the arrest of William & Sarah Shellaker is dated 30th June 1855 with their trial taking place the following week on the 4th of July.

Of their four children, only one survives. The continuation of this Shellaker line is entirely reliant upon the survival of their 12 year old son, Richard.

The man who walked into Finkin Street Chapel to marry Polly was not ‘Frank James Brown, Bachelor of Grantham’ but was actually, Francis Cable.

The congregation were unaware, as choir mistress Emma entered the Chapel to marry Sam Geary she was, for a second occasion, pregnant.

As Dad turned to look at the cottage he saw the thatched roof was blazing! He shouted up the stairs “Get up. All of you, the house is on fire!”

Enter the squalor and misery of Dickensian London to where one of Dicken’s most infamous characters, Bill Sikes, hangs himself after killing Nancy.

My father, George Harry Leedham was born on Sunday 10th January 1897 in the City of Leicester but from an early age he was known as 'Harry'