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Author: Angela Keyworth

Family History 

The Melbourne Dexters

Angela Keyworth 1 May 201823 April 2021

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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