I found our link back to the Mayflower, and my
13th great-grandmother, Mary Allerton, who was a child when she arrived with her parents as Pilgrims.
Jean Ingelow followed this book of verse in 1851 with a story, Allerton and Dreux, but it was
the publication of her Poems in 1863 which suddenly made her a popular writer.
When pollution became a problem, the wealthier residents left the industrial conurbation to live in Headingley,
Potternewton and Chapel Allerton which led to a 50% increase in the population of Headingley
and Burley from 1851 to 1861.