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Hi Maria, Thanks for the input............Still could be him............Edward Cecil Lawrence  lived with my grandmother in Boscombe Bournemouth in early 1930's and then my mum was born in 1934.  He was down as a hotel porter on her birth certificate which from research shows that most of that area was swamped with hotels/holiday establishments in those days.  My grandmother who was born in 1898 and married in 1920 had already been widowed and left with  four small boys in 1932. Absolutely nothing else is known about Edward after he disappears 1936/37 except for the name on her birth certificate as my grandmother dies in 1945 leaving eight children of who four youngest ended up in Dr Barnados (Cottage Homes) in Christchurch.  They never returned home from school the day their mother died and were taken straight to the home from the school...........never had their toys/belongings/school books or prizes or anything ever given to them from that day onward........My mum being 11 and one of the eldest had to help bring up the other younger children in the home  until they started being farmed out as skivvies to local families who didnt really want them but wanted the money it brought in........So my search goes onwards and one day maybe a little piece of luck will change everything.......best wishes Cheryle

Hi Carol and Kit and thanks for your replies.......It would be very spooky if it turns out in the future he was the one who went to Singapore as we were stationed out there in the 60's with my dad who was in the Royal Green Jackets.....
  I have looked and looked at all these possibilities but as my mum was put into a childrens home in 1945 there is very little info except that on her birth certificate.........The problem is he could have be 10 years younger or older than my grandmother so its an endless range! I will just have to keep wondering for now and dig where i can .......kind regards Cheryle

Hi Chris.....Looks like someone else has had to work with the same info...This is from a 2005 posting on one of the family history sites...

Civil Registration Indexes, Bridport Volume 5a Pafe 229, Age 75. ...

 May help you get a little nearer to the answer,
                                                                         regards Cheryle

Hi Ewan...I know...I know...I missed my vocation in life and should have been a policwoman .   I'll be an ancestor myself before i get to as many stars as you guys at the top!! ,  but when i do have a little look through some nights there are posts that catch my eye....but that in itself is quite dangerous for me...cos i dont like to be defeated and usually i will keep on going until i get a result......trouble is you just dont realise how fast the time goes when your having fun and you know you started at 6ish but you then look up and its two in the morning....!!

                         Thanks for the encouragement....

 Hi again Wallace....Harry being shown as a Foreman Brickmaker in 1911 just as he had been in 1901, so only Morten will know if  he is likely to have been a 'recruiter' in his spare time.....William of course lived to the ripe old age of 75 so there has to be some paperwork somewhere to show for his efforts during WW1 surely hopefully Morten can strike lucky for you!!.... and i would think now that as Harrys death  is registered in Poole he would be buried very close to Creekmoor/Upton/Waterloo area even though he was a Wareham Boy.....he was a married man with 6 children after all so i would imagine his wife Henrietta would have wanted him to be somewhere close by....

                               Best wishes Cheryle