Lets try this again. I lost my hard drive and have to retrace a lot of steps. I am going through the Lawrences first. I have had little luck at Grandpa's family. It looks like everyone just disappeared after the 1911 census so, while being a dead end right now, I can keep going later.
On this page I want to keep some of my web sources so I can have them all in once place. The first of these is the Kingsclere village site. Seems a lot of us were from this area and the guy who put it together is meticulous. Love it.
My big problem right now is trying to figure out how to add things to the blog after being away so long.
Well...this image was easy. This is Brimpton House in Brimpton. Jane Lawrence (1855-) was a domestic servant here in 1871. Brimpton House is a Grade 11 listed Georgian Farmhouse built in c1812 by Joseph Arendel, a wealthy farmer who lived here with his family until 1836. He is buried in the Church yard of Brim
pton Church which is adjacent to the house. It was owned by Cpt Edward Vincent 1868-1881. Jane was a domestic servant in the house of Edward Martin Vincent and Eleanor Anne Vincent. Vincent was a farmer of 300 acres employing 10 men and was, at 50, a retired Staff Commander in the Royal Navy. My family's social "advancement" has probably robbed the upper crust of quite a few good domestics. I will add one more picture of Brimpton house and then get ready to go to the Y and then to work (lovely lazy Sundays -- maybe we haven't advanced that far?)
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