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William Leaf

3/7/2022

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William Leaf died On This Day 3 July 1874. He lived at Park Hill later owned by Sir Henry Tate
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Originally from Yorkshire Leaf ran a drapery and haberdashery business in central London, which was so successful that he was able to branch out into profitable involvement with railway development and insurance companies. He succeeded beyond most people’s wildest dreams and when he died in 1874 left an estate worth well over £500,000.
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Marie Rochelle SCARTH link
16/11/2024 03:40:53 pm

Well that was an astronomical amount of money in those days but his son in New Zealand was left penniless and died at Opaka used by his daughter or one of them? He wrote to Von Temsky to inform him of his destitution? I'm one of many NZ abd Australian descendants of the Greater Leaf family

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F Leaf
1/12/2024 06:29:59 pm

Hi, I am not sure this was John's father. William Leafs wife Jane would have been 11 when John was born

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Marie SCARTH link
1/12/2024 10:43:22 pm

Oh John Henry the son came out to NZ on the Brazille Packet 1839 as a ships captain? His father died at that time 1870 his widow in 1913 Oh so your the other branch of the family in UK then?

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