This photo taken in 1931 shows 4 generations. The matriarch (centre) is Emma Susan Wills, 83 years old, Emma’s daughter (right) is Rose Annie Newcombe aged 54, Rose’s daughter (left) is Kathleen Maud Hobson aged 25 and the baby is June Margaret Lasbury.
The birth of June Margaret Lasbury
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” – Cecilia Lasbury
Continue reading →Two new newspaper reports of the inquests into the deaths of Frederick Edward Lasbury in 1937 and Francis Percival Lasbury in 1943. By coincidence, they were both killed whilst riding bicycles.
Continue reading →I have recently found the death certificates of George Lasbury and his wife Emma Brown online at the Royal British Columbia Museum. George was born in 1865 in Stroud, Gloucestershire and emigrated to Quebec, Canada in 1872 with his family.
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