Lasbury Family History

 

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The genealogy information on this website covers the LASBURY family, and all families connected to the LASBURY family, from the 1600's to the present day.

There are 4 distinct branches to the LASBURY family, these are shown below. My ultimate aim is to connect these into one large family. I cannot claim responsibility for all of the research within this site as I have been lucky enough to make contact with numerous others who were also researching the LASBURY family and those connected to a LASBURY.

If I have missed anybody out of the list, you have my sincere apologies, let me know and I will gladly add your name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My thanks to the following researchers

Les Durham, Val Wright, Mary Lasbury, Emma Louise Lasbury Reed, Sarah Lasbury, Colin Murphy, Mary Kirby, Beryl Gunther, Clive Caswell, Janice Plummer, Cheryl Harris, Pat Tuffin, Colin Dando, Bill Sims, Helena Coney and the many researchers I have worked with on Genes Reunited

If you wish to contact any of the above researchers then send an email to the address given below and your email will be forwarded

 

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2759 Individuals

Last Update - 3rd Nov 2008

 

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History of the

LASBURY Surname

GenealogyMagazine.com defines the surname LASBURY as originating from the place name of LASBOROUGH

 

Branch 1

Benjamin Lasbury b. cir 1749


      m. 24th July 1774 - Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire


Francis Gibbens b. ?

 

Branch 2

Benjamin Lasbury b. 20th April 1794


      m. 28th May 1828 - St. Clement Danes Church, Westminster, London


Mary Turnbull b. 1804 - Knaresborough, Yorkshire

 

LASBOROUGH, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"LASBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of Longtree, county Gloucester, 5 N.W. of Tetbury. Wootton-under-Edge is its post town. The parish, which is of small extent, ......

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Branch 3

Benjamin Lasbury b. 1797 - Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire


      m. 1816 - South Wraxall, Wiltshire


Ruth Yerbury b. 1798 - Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire

 

Branch 4

James Lasbury


      m.


Mary Ann Burgess

 

Distribution of LASBURY families

UK Lasbury's in 1881

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George Lasbury

George Lasbury was born in England, October 25, 1819, and died in 1906 at Broad Brook, Connecticut.

At an early age he left home and school to help his parents, as he was the eldest of a large family of children.

He was employed in the woollen mills of Bradford on Avon, England, his native town, and by his industry worked up until he became overseer of fulling.

 

 

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William Morgan Lasbury

During the First World War there were many American business men, who though practically retired from active business duties, came again to the front at their Country's time of need, and who were important factors in many phases of the work necessary to carry on that great struggle to a successful close.

One of these men was William Morgan Lasbury, of Broad Brook, and Enfield, Connecticut. He possessed capabilities of great value, which he used untiringly, thereby receiving well-deserved merit.

 

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Mining Disaster

Sidney Alfred Lasbury was one of 439 miners killed on 14th October 1913 in Britains worst coal mining disaster at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in the South Wales Valleys.

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