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Angela Keyworth
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The Melbourne Dexters, Part 2
In 2018 I wrote about my ancestors “the Melbourne Dexters.” My gt x 3 grandparents were William Bull Dexter b 1785 in Shepshed and died 1850 in Melbourne and Jane Vigor Smedley born 1792 in Melbourne. William and Jane married in Melbourne Church on 4th March 1811. In 1837, William obtained a patent for applying…
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The Melbourne Dexters
William Dexter was born in 1818 in Melbourne, Derbyshire, to parents William Bull Dexter of Shepshed and Jane Smedley of Melbourne. William and Jane were married in Melbourne Parish Church on 4 March 1811. Jane’s parents John Smedley and Mary Toone are buried in Melbourne Baptist cemetery. At a young age William was an apprentice…