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Jane Herman
Mrs Samuel Herman (Jane Laver) 1 was born in Madras (modern-day Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India in July 1861 2.
She was the daughter of an English father from Somerset, James Laver (b.
1829) and a Scottish mother, Margaret Simpson (b.
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1835) who hailed from Benholm, Kincardineshire. Her father had served in the British Army and was on duty in India when Jane was born. Her elder sister Susan had been born in Burma.
Jane's siblings were: Susan (b. 1860), Ellen (b.
1864), Louise (b. 1866), Charles James (b. 1869), Arthur (b.
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Jane and her family returned to Britain from India sometime before 1864, settling for a while in Hampshire before living in Guernsey and resettling in England in Somerset before the close of the 1860s.
The 1871 census shows Jane and her family living at The Cottage in North Cadbury, Somerset, a locality the family would still be residing around by the time of the 1881. Jane was already absent from home by the time of the latt