Jemima Barns

Jemima Fleming, later Jemima Barns, grew up in Bledoe at the same time as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Her parents were Lee and Lesley Fleming. (PROSE: Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets)

She had feelings for James Lethbridge-Stewart (PROSE: The Forgotten Son), who officially ruled she was an 'honourary boy' so she could join the Bledoe Cadets. (PROSE: In His Kiss) Like Henry Barns, she was annoyed when James's younger brother Alistair tried to join in with the Cadets. (PROSE: The Bledoe Cadets and the Bald Man of Pengriffen)

By February 1945, Jemima had become more subdued due to James's death and the war. She was dating Henry Barns, who didn't join the war effort due to an accident with a tractor, but mainly out of convenience and was frustrated by his lack of passion. She briefly transferred feelings for James onto the older Alistair before having contact with an entity she assumed was James's spirit - an encounter that left her with a nervous breakdown and a brief pregnancy (she was unaware the miscarried foetus didn't appear human). After rejecting the spirit, she decided to settle for Henry and they became engaged shortly after World War II ended. She broke off contact with Alistair after he appeared to blank her on her return home. The town quietly chose to forgot her pregnancy. (PROSE: In His Kiss)

She had two children with Henry; Jonathan in 1953, and James (or Jimmy) in 1955. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)

On Christmas 1969, she got drunk and phoned Alistair. He found the call awkward as he remembered her to be a spirited girl when they were young, and now it felt like she lacked any purpose in her life. After she told him to "consider [himself] kissed" even without mistletoe up, he got out of it by wishing her family a merry Christmas and then hanging up. (PROSE: Home for Christmas) In the 2000s, when comparing his childhood to his granddaughter Lucy's, he would reflect that Jemima was the only girl "allowed" to join the gang. (PROSE: Lucy Wilson)