I have thus far drawn a complete blank on William Platts's birth and parentage. There are William Platts's born in Rearsby and Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire but they turn up in Birmingham and Tamworth on the censuses when I have him living in Barrow upon Soar in 1841, 1851 and 1861, an agricultural labourer/gardner married to Frances Croston/Croson.
Any help with this would be very much appreciated.