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« on: Monday 02 June 08 06:39 BST (UK) »
Thanks Bryant and Meliora for your replies.
The name is definitely Lawday or earlier spelling variants Lawdey, Lawdy, Lowday etc.
I have a copy of the marriage certificate of my2x gr grandmother Sarah Robins Lawday to William Lawrence at St Pancras Old Church 1839. Her father is given as Jas Lawday, dead. The witnesses were her brother William Robins Lawday and her sister Martha Robins Little Lawday. Her address was Isaacs Place.
1841 census Martha R L lawday is residing with her mother Elizabeth at Isaacs Place both tailoress
1851 James Lawday( brother or half brother of Sarah) at Isaacs Place tailor-
1871 James Lawday St Pancras Workhouse tailor born St James Westminster
1872 death cert James Lawday (at St Pancras Workhouse) tailor age 68 so big gap till next child Sarah's birth in 1815, William R around 1819 and Martha R L around 1816
My great grandmother, Sarah's daughter always said that her grandfather was a master tailor but his son was careless and let it go (hence the workhouse)
Son James was born around 1804 so could be the son of the James who married Elizabeth Perks at St Anne's Soho in 1802. Old James would have to have been born around 1780 or probably earlier.
I can't find any records for old James so assuming he died before civil registration. I have searched the IGI batch numbers for a lot of the parishes in the St Pancras St Marylebone area without success. but finding several other Lawday families.
Sarah Robins (Lawday) Lawrence died in 1852 aged only 36 and her husband William remarried a few years later. Her 2 eldest daughters, Sarah Lawrence (born 1841,) emmigrated to NSW 1858and my great grandmother Martha Lawrence (born 1843) emmigrated to NSW 1868 and, although there was regular and frequent letter contact between them and their family in London, because of the early death of their mother and their father's remarriage I guess a lot of Lawday family information has been lost except for:-
*Lawdays originally came to London from Devon
*were Huguenots from France name originally spelt differently
*Sarah Lawdays father was a tailor etc
* an ancestor was a baronet Sir Peter Lawday who fought for Charles1 in the Civil War and lost his estates
I have done quite a bit of research on Sir Richard Lawday (not Peter) who was killed in the king's service at Coleford in the Forest of Dean in Feb 1643 and was buried at Monmouth Church. His story is fascinating but as he apparently died without heirs I don't know how or if he is connected.
I am also trying to find the Robins connection as 3 of old James children had this as a middle name, William's son and Sarah's daughter also had Robins as a middle name.
If anyone can shed any light on these mini mysteries I would be very grateful
Regards Step52