G'day all, I would be appreciative if someone who has access to the 1841 Census for Allerton could look up the following for me, please: William LEACH b.c.1761 and his wife Martha William LEACH b. 1806 John LEACH b. 1816 If you look them up and don't find them, please also let me know that, as it will probably mean they were no longer in the land of the living!! Many thanks. Also - my querie re an epidemic in Allerton created some comment! That family actually buried 4 young daughters and 2 adult children and when the Mother died there was only one son alive at Allerton, plus the grandson she'd reared as her own from age 10 when his Mum died. Her other son, a wool sorter, had come to Aus. - and compared with Roy's account, by the time he had established a wool and hide business in rural N.S.W. we can appreciate how glad this couple, who had lived in a back-to-back inChapel Terrace, must have been to have a house block large enough to have a veritable market garden. Letters indicate they kept a cow and chooks (hens) and grew potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, cauliflowers, cabbage, peas, broad beans, melons, pumpkins, asparagus, rhubarb, rock melons, 9 orange and lemon trees and 16 other fruit trees which the kids could pick from their beds on the open verandah! With these they fed a family of 10 (8+2), preserved for the winter in Agee jars, and by greasing the eggs, gave to friends and neighbours, sent cases of produce to extended family by train or with family visitors and then included dressed fowl. During W.W.I they even sent butter by train...! But this family in their early years in Australia had also buried two little ones. Elizabeth Hooper Vic. Aus.