Another daughter Leah was born to John and Leah in 1874.

They already had four daughters; Ann Eliza, Cassandra, Edith M and Emily H.

It was 1881 before they had their one and only son John Isaac.

But this story is about their daughter Leah.

Leah was a delicate child, always of a yellow colour and did not develop very quickly until she was about ten years of age.

She was unable to attend school regularly so did not get a good education. When she left school she went to work in the pottery industry where she made friends with undesirable people who persuaded to go out drinking with them.

By the time she was about sixteen years of age she had already spent time in prison because of her drinking. She was sent to a Training Home where she was taught skills to enable her to work in service but she preferred the pottery work.

In 1900 she married Albert Henry who already had several convictions for theft and drunkenness. He was also violent.

Their first child Emily was born at Leah's mother's home as her own home was not comfortable enough.

Sadly Emily died at the age of four and a half months. The drinking continued and in 1903 Leah was on the Habitual Drunkards Police Register.

It was at this point that she became unstable, talking constantly and never settling down and eventually getting violent towards her mother and siblings and always talking about Emily who had died.

Leah was taken to the nearest Mental Asylum where she was diagnosed with acute mania. She was six months pregnant when she went there. Leah received treatment for her mania and baby Maud was born there although it is not on her medical records.

Leah was discharged in March 1904. At some point Maud went to live with Leah's brother John Isaac and his wife Emily Hannah.

Meanwhile Leah continued drinking although several other children were born in the next twelve years or so.

Albert Henry was born in 1905 and died in 1937 (he is another story). Ernest was born in 1907 and died in 1909 while Ada was born in 1909 but also died. Then Roland was born in 1912 and died in 1915.

In 1913 Leah was in Swansea but I am not sure if Roland was with her as she was sent to prison for drunkenness and for assault.

She then moved to Knutsford where she was again in prison for similar offences and also larceny. On the 1921 census she is in Cheetham prison in Manchester and by 1929, when back in court, the magistrate said she had 41 previous offences.

She and her husband had separated at some point and he was living in a different part of the country with a housekeeper who he may have married later.

Leah's final months were in the Withington Workhouse Hospital in Manchester where she died of senility and lymphoma in 1937.

Today she may have had a better life as more help would have been available to her and her three children who died may have lived.