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Cumberland / Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« on: Wednesday 14 January 09 16:04 GMT (UK) »
Thank you once again Geoff. I am very grateful indeed. You have given me a big boost.
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PeterLS
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Cumberland / Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« on: Wednesday 14 January 09 10:45 GMT (UK) »
Geoff,
Many thanks for your message on 3rd Jan which I have only just picked up. You are a star !! My surname was Smith but now changed to Lawson-Smith to preserve the links. George Smith was my great Grandfather and I had been told that he married Ruth Erskine who had been married before but was divorced. I had been a bit suspicious of this but your information seems to link up. Very many thanks. Part of my extended family has said that Ruth was the daughter of Sir Wilfred Lawson and this seems to be in doubt.They also quote the surname Wyberg.which confuses things.I have an address of 6 Oxford St. Sockton-on Tees for George Smith which is probably right as my father came from Middlesborough.
PeterLS
Many thanks for your message on 3rd Jan which I have only just picked up. You are a star !! My surname was Smith but now changed to Lawson-Smith to preserve the links. George Smith was my great Grandfather and I had been told that he married Ruth Erskine who had been married before but was divorced. I had been a bit suspicious of this but your information seems to link up. Very many thanks. Part of my extended family has said that Ruth was the daughter of Sir Wilfred Lawson and this seems to be in doubt.They also quote the surname Wyberg.which confuses things.I have an address of 6 Oxford St. Sockton-on Tees for George Smith which is probably right as my father came from Middlesborough.
PeterLS
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Hertfordshire / Re: Abbotts Langley: The Bon-bon sweet shop?
« on: Monday 05 January 09 14:40 GMT (UK) »
Hi. I was born in Abbots Langley (Marlin Sq) and also lived in Abbots Road for some about 15 years.There were three sweet shops in Abbots Langley High street. At the top of the High Street opposite the C of E junior school and war memorial was a half timbered sweet shop which we used a lot . The second was Mrs Genister's next to the Bricklayer's Arms. The Glenister family had a big house in Marlin Sq opposite the Police Houses. Later on Dazeleys the newsagent also sold sweets. They were a few houses to the right of Glenister's shop.
The Bob Bon was a toy and sweet shop on the corner of The Cresent ( Trowley rise and Trowley bottom are a long way away). It was run by the Dobson family. Fred ( who eventually ran an antique shop next door) and Kitty his wife were involved. Dennis , Fred's brother, ran the hairdressing salon, They made lots of changes. Fred's dad started the gents salon on the ground floor. He have me pudding basin haircuts and had an unfortunate mouth problem earning him the affectionate name of "slobberer". The ladies salon was at first floor level.
As a boy I delivered news papers for Dazeleys and became an errand boy for greengrocer Eric Curtis in Langley Road
The Bob Bon was a toy and sweet shop on the corner of The Cresent ( Trowley rise and Trowley bottom are a long way away). It was run by the Dobson family. Fred ( who eventually ran an antique shop next door) and Kitty his wife were involved. Dennis , Fred's brother, ran the hairdressing salon, They made lots of changes. Fred's dad started the gents salon on the ground floor. He have me pudding basin haircuts and had an unfortunate mouth problem earning him the affectionate name of "slobberer". The ladies salon was at first floor level.
As a boy I delivered news papers for Dazeleys and became an errand boy for greengrocer Eric Curtis in Langley Road
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Cumberland / Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« on: Saturday 03 January 09 17:50 GMT (UK) »
I am just starting with my family tree and have enrolled for night school this spring to learn more. I think that my great grand mother Ruth Lawson was divorced form Sir George Erskine and married my great grandfather. She was Sir Wilfred Lawson's daughter and lived in Brayton Hall. She was born about 1843 and her first marriage was in 1869 She remarried in 1877. As the Lawsons changed name from Wyberg and the Baronetcy moved sideways I am struggling ! Can anyone help me find Ruth my grandmother's details please?
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