Susan LARKINS/STANDEN Gamlingay

[rosie99]

Death June qtr 1934   
Lawson, Barbara   age 82   
Biggleswade reg district    3b   379

Newspaper reports 20th April 1934 give details of some mourners etc.  They mention the Smith family who she lived with in London looking after the children around 50years earlier

[Petros]

Thanks all I've just caught up with the recent replies and that certainly looks to be the right Barbara. Unfortunately none of the names of the relatives listed in the newspaper article seem to be from her Standen relatives.
Elias still appears elusive. Neither the 1871 nor 1881 census show any Elias * born ca 1841 in Sussex

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Think this is them, somewhat mashed up, in 1881

3 Phoenix Place, Kensington

Piece 31, folio   53, p18

Elijah Standring  40  General labourer b Robert Town, Sussex
Mary Ann Standring    33    b Hyde, Middlesex
Elizabeth Matthews   5  niece b Notting Hill
   

[Petros]

Elias certainly made tracing him difficult. variations in christian name and surname. It certainly looks like he lost contact with all his Standen relations in Cambridgeshire. Possibly because he was illiterate and moved to London after his mother died.

Thanks all. I seem to have alot more 4th cousins descended from his granddaughter