John Laidlaw was my gr grandfather. He married Marjory when she was 19 and he was 32. She was a Greengrocer looking after a family business. They married in the February in 1904 and had their first son in the following September/October of the year and named him William. Johns fathers name was William, so the child was named after him.
I cannot find a death for him, John my grgrandad. I am going to check with my mother over what his age was when he died, so that I can be sure, the next time I try SP. Even so he was very young to die. He was either 39 or 42 and a cab driver and to my knowledge I never met him. Although I met my grgran. My mum knows nothing about william, she says that my grandad only had 2 brothers and 5 sisters, so I assume that the child died before any of the others were born. John supposedly was the grandson of someone a Lord or something, the man posted a search notice in the local paper and requested them to meet up but John when they met told him to leave him alone, he did not want to know. According to my nan. I have his birth cert and William and Margaret brought him up. I need to find the article in the paper to prove it one way or the other. If the 100yr rule is true I have another 10-15 yrs to find the information. And no-one in the family left to ask the truth of. My mums info is only hearsay. Marcie
