Yes, I am one of the Leonards whose ancestors made the lovely guns. And over in America my American relatives were iron and metal workers from the 17th century onwards.
It's all come rather as a surprise that the guns are so lovely, my father's family had drifted apart from the main family of Gunmakers so the information is mainly in the hands of my distant cousins Malcolm and Stewart Leonard who are direct descendants of Henry. My family are the direct line of the Daniel Leonards.
I have a bunch of Samuels in various generations.
From what we can tell the men and the women of the family worked in the gun trade. There were workshops around the Steelhouse Lane area of Aston/Birmingham and also in London.
