Angela Keyworth, Author at Ticknall Life

The Melbourne Dexters

1 May 201811 June 2018 Angela Keyworth 6 Comments

William Dexter was born in 1818 in Melbourne, Derbyshire, to parents William Bull Dexter of Shepshed and Jane Smedley of Melbourne. William and

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