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Notes:
On the 3 April 1881 census
Laurence was 10-months-old and living at
11 Commercial Road, West Teignmouth, Devon
with his mother, Sarah, age 32
and brothers John H., age 8, William E., age 6,
Frederick G., age 4 and Herbert W., age 2.
His father John who was a mariner would have been 31 and
was not at this address on the day of the census.
At the same address were Thomas and Elizabeth Holland,
husband and wife, comedian and comedienne.
(National Archives Reference RG11, piece 2156, folio 79, page 31)
10 years later on the 1891 census
Laurence was 10 at the same address with
his father John, 42, a sailor and mother Sarah, 43,
along with siblings William, 16, Frederick was 14, Herbert, 12, Amy, 8 and Reginald, 4.
(National Archives Reference RG12, piece 1693, folio 50, page 5)
In 1901 Laurence was a footman in a big house in Gloucestershire.
In 1903 he made the first of a number of crossings of the Atlantic to the USA. He may have been working as a valet to a Mr Peabody in Boston but this has to be confirmed.
In their married life Laurence and Nancy worked in the hotel trade, at one time running one of the Teignmouth hotels and also working in London.
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