Searches for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks,
and for squarks in R-parity violating
SUSY models with the direct decay of the squark into Standard
Model particles, have been performed 
using $\rm e^+e^-$ collisions collected 
with the OPAL detector at LEP at $\rm e^+e^-$ centre-of-mass energies
between 189 and 209\,GeV.
No excess of events is found over the expectation
from Standard Model background processes. Limits are computed
on the leptoquark
couplings for different values of the branching
ratio to electron-quark final states.