Leslie Durham was born 25 Nov 1945 West Molesey, Surrey to John Stanley Durham & Grace Ruby Gay. After his university studies in the late 1960’s he toured Europe, stopped in Northern Italy and decided to stay.
About 25 years ago Les made contact because he had discovered some Lasbury individuals in his ancestry. His 2nd great grandmother was Sabina Lasbury born 1812 in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, daughter of John Lasbury & Leah Harvey.
My own Lasbury ancestors are also from Bradford on Avon, from the same period, so we both worked hard to discover any links between our families. Unfortunately the records from that period are scarce and we could find nothing to prove a link.
When DNA became available we both took a test and the results surprised us – there was no link. It could possibly be that the link is too far back to show up as a DNA match or perhaps there has been a little misbehaviour in one in one of our families and the stated father of a child was not the true father.
Les died 4th August 2024 in Turin, Italy.
