Trying to find John LEES b. between 1815-1820, occupation Iron Moulder. He married a Mary ?. She was born c.1823 and died 10 March 1895 at Birmingham. Her surname was then HEELEY. Mary had a sister Caroline LEES (Carrie) who never married.

Their daughter was Mary Ann LEES b. c1840 at Birmingham and died c1867-1871 at Tuakau, South Auckland, New Zealand. Mary Ann married John Henry CHESHIRE b. c1838 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England and died 19 November 1912 at Graytown, New Zealand. They had 4 children - Eliza Tamar CHESHIRE who married Thomas PATON, Ellen Jane Spenser CHESHIRE who had a child by Benjamin COSSEY (unmarried), Alfred Ormond CHESHIRE who never married and finally Henry CHESHIRE who married Emily HALL.