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Dorset / George Lawrence b.Beaminster 1810
« on: Monday 06 August 12 16:55 BST (UK) »
We're struggling to find any trace of the above gentleman after his appearance in the 1851 census. He was a blacksmith in Fleet Street, Beaminster at that point. In 1861, his wife, Mary Lawrence, appears to have moved to Yeovil (a servant in the Granger household) and describes herself as married. She reappears as a 'windower' (presumably widow!) in the 1881 census, living with her son's family in Dorchester. There's no obvious trace of George. He appears not be the George Lawrence who d.Beaminster in 1852 (that was a 6-month-old baby), nor yet the one who was up before the beak at Dorchester in 1855 and imprisoned for assault with intent to ravish (that was a scallywag from Fontmell Magna). We've also checked emigration records in vain.
Can anybody come up with any lateral thinking here? Any theories for his having escaped the attentions of both the census enumerator and the death registrar?
[And, as a side issue, any trace in 1871 of Mary Lawrence b.North Cheriton(?), Somerset c.1800?]
Can anybody come up with any lateral thinking here? Any theories for his having escaped the attentions of both the census enumerator and the death registrar?
[And, as a side issue, any trace in 1871 of Mary Lawrence b.North Cheriton(?), Somerset c.1800?]