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Overs, John A.locked

(1808–1844)
  • M. Clare Loughlin-Chow

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Overs, John A. (1808–1844), author and cabinet-maker, was born in Birmingham, the eldest of the three sons of Richard Overs (1778–1851) and his wife, Elizabeth, née Mykins (or Meakins; d. c.1814). His father was descended from a staunchly Roman Catholic family of copyholders in the manor of ...

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